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【单选题】TheAleuts, residing on several islands of theAleutianChain, the Pribilof islands, and theAlaskan Peninsula, have possessed a written language since 1825, when the Russian missionary Ivan Veniaminov selected appropriate characters of theCyrillic alphabet to representAleut speech sounds, recorded the main body ofAleut vocabulary, and formulated grammatical rules. TheCzarist Russian conquest of the proud, independent sea hunters was so devastatingly thorough that tribal traditions, even tribal memories, were almost obliterate
D、The slaughter of the majority of an adult generation was sufficient to destroy the continuity of tribal knowledge, which was dependent upon oral transmission.As a consequence, theAleuts developed a fanatical devotion to their language as their only cultural heritage.
The Russian occupation placed a heavy linguistic burden on theAleuts. Not only were they compelled to learn Russian to converse with their overseers and governors, but they had to learn Old Slavonic to take an active part in church services as well as to master the skill of reading and writing their own tongue. In 1867, when the United States purchasedAlaska, theAleuts were unable to break sharply with their immediate past and substituteEnglish for any one of their three languages.
To communicants of the Russian OrthodoxChurch a knowledge of Slavonic remained vital, as did Russian, the language in which one conversed with the clergy. TheAleuts came to regardEnglish education as a device to wean them from their religious faith. The introduction of compulsoryEnglish schooling caused a minor renascence of Russian culture as theAleut parents sought to counteract the influence of the schoolroom. The harsh life of the Russian colonial rule began to appear more happy and beautiful in retrospect.
Regulations forbidding instruction in any language other thanEnglish increased its unpopularity, The superficial alphabetical resemblance of Russian andAleut linked the two tongues so closely that every restriction against teaching Russian was interpreted as an attempt to eradicate theAleut tongue. From the wording of many regulations, it appears thatAmerican administrators often had not the slightest idea that theAleuts were clandestinely reading and writhing their own tongue or even had a written language of their own. To too many officials, anything inCyrillic letters was Russian and something to be stamped out.Bitterness bred by abuses and the exploitations theAleuts suffered from predatoryAmerican traders and adventurers kept alive theAleut resentment against the language spoken byAmericans.
Gradually, despite the failure to emancipate theAleuts from a sterile past by relating theAleut andEnglish languages more closely, the passage of years has assuaged the bitter misunderstandings and caused an orientation away from Russian towardEnglish as their second language, butAleut continues to be the language that molds their thought and expression.
Distributing which of the following publications would be most likely to encourageAleuts to make more use ofEnglish
A、Russian translations ofEnglish novels.
B．English translation of Russian novels.
C．AnEnglish-Russian bilingual text devoted to important aspects ofAleutian culture.

D、AnAleut-English bilingual text devoted to important aspects ofAleutian cultur

网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
发行介绍阿留申文化一些重要方面的、采用阿留申语和英语两种语言的出版物很可能激励阿留申人更多地使用英语。正如文中所叙述的那样，阿留申人从来就不把英语当作是第二语言。那么什么东西最有可能激励他们接受英语呢 一定是尊重本民族文化又使本民族文化贴近英语的东西，所以D最合适。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>