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学科网 好题汇编 WWW.ZXXK.COM 精选好题·分类汇编 专题09阅读填表 经典基础题 (2022秋江苏南京九年级统考期中)阅读下面短文，根据所读内容，在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最 恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。 The late president of South Africa,Nelson Mandela.once said,"If you talk to a man in a language he understands,that goes to his head.If you talk to a man in his own language,that goes to his heart" Mandela understood that our mother language is a very intimate (thing to us.For people who speak an ancient tongue as their mother language,it helps them keep their traditions.Their language is their main connection with their ancestors.And it is also how they imagine the future. So it's a serious thing that a language disappears.Over the last century,more than 400 languages have died out.Some languages are now spoken only by a few dozen people,like Yagan in Chile.Africa and South Africa are also places where many languages are dying. Why are we humans speaking fewer languages than we once did?The answer has to do with globalization. With greater trade and communication,the planet has become smaller.It's become more useful to speak some languages-English is the obvious example-than others.The effect has been to kill certain languages,usually ones spoken by less populous and powerful peoples. But there are people and organizations all over the world that aren't prepared to accept a planet with fewer and fewer languages.Through efforts both large and small,they are getting people to speak and read in certain languages,and to pass them on.Each year on Feb 21.The United Nations also holds International Mother Language Day in the hope that the public pay more attention to dying languages. This work is important.As US writer Rita Mae Brown wrote,"Language is the road map of a culture.It tells where its people come from and where they are going". Mother tongue:a path to the &the road map of a culture The It 3 people not only to their traditions and ancestors Presentation of of mother tongue but also to the outlook for the future. the problem How 4 With 400 la