高二下学期英语期末试卷汇编：语法填空 (1).docx

PAGE 5 浙江省嘉兴市 2019-2022三年高二下学期英语期末试卷汇编 语法填空 浙江省嘉兴市2021-2022学年高二下学期期末检测英语试题 第二节（共10个小题;每小题1. 5分, 满分15分） 阅读下面材料, 在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 There are currently over 3, 000 endangered languages in the world on the edge of extinction. And languages and dialects are dying at 56 _______ alarming rate. According to National Geographic, one language disappears from the earth every 14 days, and few leave any recognizable marks. The least spoken languages in the world tend to be spoken only by a few elders of small 57__________ (community). Learning a dying language rarely appeals to people 58_________ try to secure their place in a global economy, so younger generations arent typically learning these languages 59_______ their parents or grandparents. Most of these endangered languages also lack a writing system, 60__________(make) their preservation an even bigger challenge. In this landscape of amazing loss, institutions and projects are trying to save 61_______ is left. The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme 62________ (found) in 2002 with the aim of preserving languages threatened by extinction. It not only funds individual projects developed by scholars, 63 _________ provides training in London and around the world to help prepare the methods 64__________ (require)for research work. The purpose of documenting languages must not 65___________(simple) be to pin（钉）them to the wall like butterflies. 浙江省嘉兴市2020-2021学年高二下学期期末检测英语试题 第二节(共10个小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分) 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 Look at the graphite(石墨) tip of your pencil. Its hard ____36____ (imagine) anyone carving detailed sculptures into that tiny surface. ____37____ Salavat Fidai, a Russian artist, does just that. Fidai says the process is ____38____ (extreme) hard and time-consuming. Graphite is fragile, and his sculptures are so small that theyre measured in millimeters and even microns(微米). To see ____39____ hes doing, he has to look through a microscope, a tool ____40____ helps people d