高考人教版英语一轮学案必修1Unit2Englisharoundtheworld.pdfVIP

———[单元主题语境]——人与自我之语言 学习的规律、方法等 (2018· 高考全国卷Ⅰ) 话题：语言的消失 词数：304 难度： ★★★★ Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going.When the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers small tightly knit (联系) groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other.Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago when the world had just five to ten million people they spoke perhaps 12,000 languages between them. Soon afterwards many of those people started settling down to become farmers and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number.In recent centuries，trade ，industrialisation， the development of the nation-state and the spread of universal compulsory education ， especially globalisation and better communications in the past few decades，all have caused many languages to disappear，and dominant languages such as Englis ， Spanish and Chinese are increasingly taking over. At present ，the world has about 6,800 languages.The distribution of these languages is hugely uneven.The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages ，often spoken by many people ，while hot ，wet zones have lots，often spoken by small numbers.Europe has only around 200 languages ；the Americas about 1,000；Africa 2,400 ；and Asia and the Pacific perhaps 3,200 ，of whic Papua New Guinea alone account