Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, working and raising a family in a village in Nepal.

　　Documenting the Tangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayans reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.

　　At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials-- including photographs, films, tap 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---the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project---Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, found in libraries and stores around 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.

4.Many scholars are making efforts to .

A.rescue the disappearing languages B.promote global languages

C.search for language communities D.set up language research organizations.

5.What does "that tradition" in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A.Having full records of the languages. B.Writing books on language teaching.

C.Telling stories about language users. D.Living with the native speakers.

6.What is Turin's book based on?

A.The cultural studies in India. B.The documents available at Yale.

C.His language research in Bhutan. D.His personal experience in Nepal.

7.Which of the following best describes Turin's work?

A.Write,sell and donate. B.Record,repair and reward.

C.Collect,protect and reconnect. D.Design,experiment and report.

【答案及解析】：

答案：4.A; 5.A; 6.D;7.C