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What can be concluded about the government in paragraph 3?

Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet toindicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.
In our connected globalized world, the languages which dominate communications and business, are placing small languages spoken in remote places under increasing pressure. Fewer and fewer people speak languages such as Liki, Taushiro and Dumi as their children shift away from the language of their ancestors towards languages that promise education, success, and the chance of a better life.
While to many parents, this may appear a reasonable choice, giving their offspring the opportunity to achieve the sort of prosperity they see on television, the children themselves often lose touch with their roots. However, in many places, the more reasonable option of bilingualism, where children learn to speak both a local and a national language, is being promoted. While individuals are free to choose if they wish to speak a minority language, national governments should be under no obligation to provide education in an economically unproductive language, especially in times of budget constraints.
Furthermore, governments have a duty to ensure that young people can fulfill their full potential, meaning that state education must provide them with the ability to speak and work in their national language and so equip them to participate responsibly in national affairs. People whose language competence does not extend beyond the use of a regional tongue have limited prospects. This means that while many people may feel a sentimental attachment to their local language, their government's position should be one of benign neglect, allowing people to speak the language, but not acting to prevent its eventual disappearance.
Many Ph.D. students studying minority languages lack the resources to develop their language skills, with the result that they have to rely on interpreters and translators to communicate with speakers of the language they are studying. This has a detrimental effect on the quality of their research. At the same time, they have to struggle against the frequently expressed opinion that minority languages serve no useful purpose and should be allowed to die a natural death. Such a view fails to take into account the fact that a unique body of knowledge and culture, built up over thousands of years, is contained in a language and that language extinction and species extinction are different facets of the same process. They are part of an impending global catastrophe which is beginning to look unavoidable.
What can be concluded about the government in paragraph 3?
A. The government does not appreciate the importance of minority languages.
B. People who are not in the government will be allowed to speak their local languages.
C. The local people will be neglected at work if they use their ancestors' languages.
D. It's better to allow these minority languages to die naturally by neglecting them.
Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu
Giải thích:
Có thể kết luận gì về chính phủ trong đoạn 3?
A. Chính phủ không đánh giá cao tầm quan trọng của các ngôn ngữ thiểu số.
B. Những người không thuộc chính phủ sẽ được phép nói ngôn ngữ địa phương của họ.
C. Người dân địa phương sẽ bị sao nhãng trong công việc nếu họ sử dụng ngôn ngữ của tổ tiên họ.
D. Tốt hơn là để cho những ngôn ngữ thiểu số này biến mất một cách tự nhiên bằng cách phớt lờ chúng.
Thông tin: This means that while many people may feel a sentimental attachment to their local language, their government's position should be one of benign neglect, allowing people to speak the language, but not acting to prevent its eventual disappearance.
Tạm dịch: Điều này có nghĩa rằng trong khi nhiều người cảm thấy khá gắn kết với ngôn ngữ địa phương họ, thì thái độ của chính phủ nên là nhẹ nhàng phớt lờ, vẫn cho phép họ nói ngôn ngữ đó, nhưng lại không làm gì để bảo tồn nó khỏi sự biến mất dần dần.
=> Như vậy, thái độ nhẹ nhàng phớt lờ, không hề bảo tồn các ngôn ngữ thiểu số là cách để cho nó bị đào thải một cách tự nhiên.
Đáp án D.
 

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