before they disappear without record.

　　At the University of Cambridge 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-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.

　　【语篇解读】　本文是一篇记叙文。世界上有好多语言正面临着消亡。文章讲述的是Turin和其他研究者拯救世界上那些面临消亡的语言的具体做法。

　　1．Many scholars are making efforts to .

　　A．promote global languages

　　B．rescue disappearing languages

　　C．search for language communities

　　D．set up language research organizations

　　【解析】　细节理解题。根据文章第二段第一句"In an effort to prevent language loss，scholars..."可知，那些学者是为了阻止语言的消亡，即"拯救那些正在消亡的语言(rescue disappearing languages)"。

　　【答案】　B

　　2．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.

【解析】　词义指代题。根据文章第二段的"...have for many years been