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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 is the influence of the shortage of minority language resources on many Ph.D. students mentioned in paragraph 4?
A. They have to be under the pressure that the language is admitted to be extinct for good.
B. These students are unable to convince people to use the language they are learning.
C. They encounter several obstacles in understanding the language with the interpreters.
D. Their qualified research is unlikely to accomplish due to the local people's ignorance.
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 is the influence of the shortage of minority language resources on many Ph.D. students mentioned in paragraph 4?
A. They have to be under the pressure that the language is admitted to be extinct for good.
B. These students are unable to convince people to use the language they are learning.
C. They encounter several obstacles in understanding the language with the interpreters.
D. Their qualified research is unlikely to accomplish due to the local people's ignorance.
Kiến thức:Đọc hiểu
Giải thích:
Sự thiếu hụt nguồn ngôn ngữ thiểu số có ảnh hưởng gì đối với nhiều nghiên cứu sinh nêu trong đoạn 4?
A. Họ phải chịu áp lực rằng ngôn ngữ (họ đang nghiên cứu) được thừa nhận là đã tuyệt chủng.
B. Những nghiên cứu sinh này không có khả năng thuyết phục mọi người sử dụng ngôn ngữ mà họ đang học.
C. Họ gặp một số trở ngại trong việc hiểu ngôn ngữ với thông dịch viên.
D. Nghiên cứu đủ điều kiện của họ khó có thể thành công do sự thiếu hiểu biết của người dân địa phương.
Thông tin: 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.
Tạm dịch: Nhiều nghiên cứu sinh đang nghiên cứu các ngôn ngữ thiểu số bị thiếu hụt về tư liệu để phát triển các kĩ năng của họ, và kết quả là họ phải phụ thuộc vào các biên dịch và thông dịch để giao tiếp với những người nói ngôn ngữ mà họ đang học. Điều này gây tác động tiêu cực đến chất lượng các nghiên cứu của họ.
Giải thích:
Sự thiếu hụt nguồn ngôn ngữ thiểu số có ảnh hưởng gì đối với nhiều nghiên cứu sinh nêu trong đoạn 4?
A. Họ phải chịu áp lực rằng ngôn ngữ (họ đang nghiên cứu) được thừa nhận là đã tuyệt chủng.
B. Những nghiên cứu sinh này không có khả năng thuyết phục mọi người sử dụng ngôn ngữ mà họ đang học.
C. Họ gặp một số trở ngại trong việc hiểu ngôn ngữ với thông dịch viên.
D. Nghiên cứu đủ điều kiện của họ khó có thể thành công do sự thiếu hiểu biết của người dân địa phương.
Thông tin: 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.
Tạm dịch: Nhiều nghiên cứu sinh đang nghiên cứu các ngôn ngữ thiểu số bị thiếu hụt về tư liệu để phát triển các kĩ năng của họ, và kết quả là họ phải phụ thuộc vào các biên dịch và thông dịch để giao tiếp với những người nói ngôn ngữ mà họ đang học. Điều này gây tác động tiêu cực đến chất lượng các nghiên cứu của họ.
Đáp án C.