课时作业2 Exploring English-（课时作业）【红对勾讲与练】2024版新高考英语大一轮复习全新方案（外研版）

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8: 课时作业 2　 Exploring English Ⅰ. 阅读理解 " (2022·江西上饶六校联考) Tom Belt, a native of Oklahoma, didn􀆳t know the English language until he began school. In his home, conversations took place in Cherokee. Belt grew up riding horses, and after college traveled around the country doing the rodeo(牛仔竞技比 赛) . Finally, he wound up in North Carolina and married a woman he met at school 20 years earlier. Yet his wife—also Cherokee—did not speak the language. He soon realized that he was a minority( 少数) among his own people. At that time, just 400 or so Cherokee speakers were left in the Eastern Band, the tribe(部落) located in the Cherokee􀆳s historic homeland. Children were no longer learning the language either. “ I began to realize the seriousness of the situation,” Belt says. Belt and other concerned Cherokee speakers in the Eastern Band decided to do something about it. Belt volunteered to teach Cherokee lessons at a local school, for example, and finally the tribe decided to create a language immersion school for children, where main classes—including science and math—are taught in Cherokee. Cherokee language is now also offered at the local university, where Belt teaches. “ Many Cherokee speakers are using technology to do really interesting things that were not imaginable a generation back,” says Mark Turin, a language expert at Yale University. For example, a Cherokee app allows speakers to text in the language􀆳s 85 letters. Some Cherokee sites bring speakers together and provide multimedia teaching tools. Thanks