专题02 阅读填空（第03期）-2019届高三英语百所名校好题速递分项解析汇编

【安徽省江淮十校2019届高三第二次联考】第二节 (共 5小题; 每小题 2分,满分 10分) Earth is home to around 7,000 languages, around half of which are expected to disappear by 2100. Languages disappear for many reasons. Sometimes younger generations stop leaming a language because parents want children to fit in. ___16___ Native American children of the late-19th century were required to attend boarding schools where educators forbade them from speaking their native languages. The United Nations ranks endangered languages according to their risk level. For example, a "critically endangered" language is one that even grandparents don ' t speak often. New York ' s Onondaga language is an example with only 50 speakers left. An " extinct" language has no speakers. It is gone forever. Alaska ' s Eyak language is one example. ___17___ ___18___ In the same way, different languages contnbute to cultural diversity. Saving these languages benefits our understanding of other cultures. Languages can show how a society looks at t