专题20 阅读、完形、语法填空、书面表达组合练-攻克2021年中考新题型英语语篇训练

语篇专题练习（二十） 一、阅读理解 A Each year on Feb. 21, UNESCO(联合国教科文组织) holds an International Mother Language Day (IMLD). The event is to help people to pay attention to the disappearance of the world's languages: many of them are disappearing each year. UNESCO sees this as a terrible fact. What happens when a language dies out? Something great is lost—not just sounds and marks but the way that people understand the world and communicate with each other. We keep different cultures and traditions through languages. Kill a language and all these are killed too. Through IMLD, more and more people come to realize the terrible situation and try to stop it. Google's 2018 Endangered(濒临灭绝的) Languages Project is a good example. Many speakers and protectors of endangered languages upload(上传) texts, audios and videos to the project website. They want to introduce the way that people communicate and express themselves around the world. The Myaamia Project is the same kind of effort to revive the language s