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【单选题】D、As more and more people speak the global languages ofEnglish,Chinese, Spanish, andArabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations zxxkEducational , Scientific andCultural Organization (UNESCO). In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations _UNESCO and National Geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect. Mark Turin, a scientist at the MacmillanCentre Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book,
A、Grammar of Thangmi with anEthnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and zxxkTheirCulture, grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal. Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches of India , Nepal,Bhutan, andChina .But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without recorD、 At the University ofCambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials-including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes—which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection. Now, through the two organizations that he has founded –theDigital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project __Turin has started a campaign to make suchzxxk documents, for the world available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collecteD、Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities. What is Turin’s book based on
A、The cultual studies
B．The documents available at Yale.
C．His language research inBhutan.
D．His personal experience in Nepal.

网考网参考答案：D
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【试题解析】细节题。根据文章第三段中的grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal.这本书的内容出自他在尼泊尔生活，工作以及抚养家人的经历。说明这本书是以他的个人经历为基础的。故D正确。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>