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We are all aware of the damage that modern industry can cause to the world’s ecology, but few people are
aware of the 37 widely spoken languages have on other languages and ways of life. English has spread all over
the world. Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and Hindi have become powerful languages as well. As these languages
become more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increases. As this happens, hundreds of
languages that are spoken by a few die out all over the world.
Scholars believe there are around 6,000 languages around the world, but more than half of them
could 38 within the next 100 years. Aore is the language native to Vanuatu, located in the Pacific Ocean. Like
Catawba before Red Thunder Cloud’s death, it is spoken by that island’s only remaining native inhabitant; so it,
too, will soon be gone. A large number of Ethiopian languages are used by 39 numbers of people. Two
speakers of the Ethiopian language Gafat were fine until a researcher took them out of their native jungle, at which
point they caught a cold and died. In New Guinea, more than 100 languages could die out.
When a plant, insect, or animal species dies, it is easy to understand what has been lost. 40 , language is
only a product of the mind. To be the last remaining speaker of a language must be a peculiarly lonely destiny,
almost as strange and terrible as being the last surviving member of a dying species. When a language vanishes,
we lose the possibility of a 41 way of seeing and describing the world. 【題組】38 (A)degenerate (B)plummet (C)disappear (D)thrive
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