从2018年全国卷I阅读题C篇突破2019高考阅读理解 21页（题源分析 单词词汇讲解 句子结构分析）

导语： 2018年高考英语全国卷I阅读C篇讲了语言的消失，原文是来自《经济学人》2004年的一篇专题报道，外刊原文很长，词数近2900，报道就是讲濒危语言的，高考试题只是选取了原文第4-7段（故也可直接从本文第四段起看起），删去了个别句子，替换了几个超纲词汇，共314词 。 注意如下： 1. 高考试题部分用粗体特别标出。 2. 对于一些超纲词汇和表达，高考试题也使用了简单的词组表达来替换，用（括号）标注在旁边。 标题：Babel runs backwards babel： 英文释义是“the sound of many voices talking at one time, especially when more than one language is being spoken”，指 “嘈杂声（尤指讲多种语言）” 外刊原文的第一段就是引自犹太人的《圣经》记载： “And they said one to another, go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole Earth...And the Lord said, behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do...let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the Earth.” That ended the building of the tower of Babel, and started the confusion of tongues. 参考译文：“他们互相说，‘来吧！我们要建造一座城和一座塔，塔顶通天。我们要传扬名声，免得分散