Câu hỏi trắc nghiệm (10 câu):
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Câu 1: Mã câu hỏi: 177817
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions
In the Native American Navajo nation which sprawls across four states in the American south-west, the native language is dying. Most of its speakers are middle-age or elderly. Although many students take classes in Navajo, the schools are run in English. Street sign, supermarket goods and even their own newspaper are all in English. Not surprisingly, linguists doubt that any native speakers of Navajo will remain in a hundred years' time.
Navajo is far from alone. Half the world's 6,800 languages are likely to vanish within two generations - that's one language lost every ten days. Never before has the planet's linguistic diversity shrunk at such a pace. Isolation breeds linguistic diversity as a result, the world is peppered with languages spoken by only a few people. Only 250 languages have more than a million speakers, and at least 3,000 have fewer than 2,500. It is not necessarily these small languages that are about to disappear. Navajo is considered endangered despite having 150,000 speakers.
What makes a language endangered is not that the number of speakers, but how old they are. If it is spoken by children it is relatively safe. The critically endangered languages are those that are only spoken by the elderly, according to Michael Krauss, director of the Alaska Native Language Center, in Fairbanks.
Why do people reject the language of their parent? It begins with a crisis of confidence, when a small community finds itself alongside a larger, wealthier society, says Nicholas Ostler of Britain's Foundation for Endangered Languages, in Bath. “People lose faith in their culture” he says. "When the next generation reaches their teens, they might not want to be induced into the old tradition.” The change is not always voluntary. Quite often, governments try to kill off a minority language by banning its use in public or discouraging its use in school, all to promote national unity. The former US policy of running Indian reservation in English, for example, effectively put languages such as Navajo on the danger list. But Salikoko Mufwene, who chairs the Linguistics Department at the University of Chicago, argues that the deadliest weapon is not government policy but economic globalisation. "Native Americans have not lost pride in their language, but they have had to adapt to socio-economic pressures" he says. “They cannot refuse to speak English if most commercial activity is in English." However, a growing interest in cultural identity may prevent the direct predictions from coming true. ‘The key to fostering diversity is for people to learn their ancestral tongue, as well as the dominant language' says Doug Whalen, founder and president of the Endangered Language Fund in New Haven, Connecticut. “Most of these will ive without a large degree of bilingualism” he says.
It is stated in the passage that the number of endangered languages is ____.
- A. about 3,200
- B. about 6,800
- C. at least 3,000
- D. fewer than 2,500
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Câu 2: Mã câu hỏi: 177818
The word peppered in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ____.
- A. randomly separated
- B. slowly attacked
- C. sparsely distributed
- D. unintentionally controlled
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Câu 3: Mã câu hỏi: 177819
According to the passage, endangered languages cannot be saved unless people ____.
- A. avoid speaking their dominant language
- B. grow interest in cultural identities
- C. know more than one language
- D. write in their mother tongue
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Câu 4: Mã câu hỏi: 177820
Who thinks that a change of language may mean a loss of traditional culture?
- A. Doug Whalen
- B. Michael Krauss
- C. Nicholas Ostler
- D. Salikoko Mufwene
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Câu 5: Mã câu hỏi: 177821
The word these in paragraph 5 refers to ____.
- A. ancestral tongue
- B. dominant language
- C. growing interest in cultural identity
- D. the key to fostering diversity
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Câu 6: Mã câu hỏi: 177822
Navajo language is considered being endangered language because ____.
- A. it currently has too few speakers
- B. it is spoken by too many elderly and middle-aged speakers
- C. it was banned in publicity by the former US policy
- D. many young people refuse to learn to speak it
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Câu 7: Mã câu hỏi: 177823
Which statement is NOT supported by the information in the passage?
- A. A large number of native speakers fail to guarantee the survival of a language.
- B. National governments could do more to protect endangered languages.
- C. The loss of linguistic diversity is inevitable.
- D. Young people often reject the established way of life in their community
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Câu 8: Mã câu hỏi: 177824
What is the main idea of this passage?
- A. To describe how diverse languages are in the past.
- B. To explain the importance of persevering endangered languages.
- C. To explain why more and more languages disappear.
- D. To point out that many languages being in danger of extinction.
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Câu 9: Mã câu hỏi: 177835
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
Choose the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress: capture, picture, ensure, pleasure.
- A. capture
- B. picture
- C. ensure
- D. pleasure
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Câu 10: Mã câu hỏi: 177836
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions: different, important, essential, negation.
- A. different
- B. important
- C. essential
- D. negation
