She could improve her foreign languages.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

Beyond my career, my facility with languages has given me a few rare opportunities.

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

I have learned many languages, but I've not mastered them the way the professional interpreter or translator has.

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

In fact, English has words from many other languages as well.

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

Oh, all languages are difficult to learn.

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

So speakers of those languages will find many familiar words in English.

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

Educators may fear that children hearing two languages will become permanently confused and thus their language development will be delayed ;this concern is not documented in the literature.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Teachers consider learning two languages to be too43for children from poor families, believing that the children are already burdened by their home situations

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

It is a tool of communication among speakers of different languages.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

Esperanto is an artificial language, designed to serve internationally as an auxiliary means of communication among speakers of different languages

出自-2010年6月听力原文

But in Bangladesh, a population 600 times greater, speaks only 41 languages.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

For example, the 250,000 people who live on Vanuatu's 80 islands speak 110 different languages.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

It has become the world's most widely read magazine, selling 28 million copies each month in 17 languages and 41 different editions.

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

It has brought English into homes and pushed out traditional storytelling and family time together, accelerating the extinction of native languages.

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

Most early books were printed in Latin, but the market for Latin was limited, and in its pursuit of larger markets, the book trade soon produced translations into the national languages emerging at the time.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

Printing indeed played a key role in standardizing and stabilizing these languages by fixing them in print, and producing dictionaries and grammar books.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

The decline in American Indian languages has historical roots.

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

The great cultural impact of printing was that it facilitated the growth of national languages.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

These prior efforts all examined the degree to which different environmental, social, and geographic variables correlated with a number of languages found in a given location.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

They live in 16 different communities and speak 16 distinct languages.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

Already well over 400 of the total of 6, 800 languages are close to extinction, with only a few elderly speakers left.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

At present, the world has about 6800 languages.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Europe has only around 200 languages; the Americas about 1000; Africa 2400; and asia and the pacific perhaps 3200, of which papua new guinea alone accounts for well over 800.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

How many languages are spoken by less than 6000 people at present?

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

Human development results in fewer languages.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations—UNESCO and national geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

In fact, half of the 6, 000-7, 000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Many scholars are making efforts to rescue disappearing languages.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Centre Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the himalayas, is following in that tradition.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

People's lifestyles are reflected in fewer languages.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Some language experts believe that 10000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 1200 languages between them.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The distribution of these languages is hugely uneven.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken by many people, while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The median number(中位数) of speakers is a mere 6000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The spoken languages were enough in all my interactions.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

his concern is mainly with the humanities: literature, languages, philosophy and so on.

2011年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In order to study particular cultures as completely as possible, he became skilled in linguistics, the study of languages, and in physical anthropology, the study of human biology and anatomy.

2009年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Programming languages have a quick turnover, so the "Ruby on Rails" language they learned may not even be relevant by the time they enter the job market.

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The report also advocates greater study of foreign languages, international affairs and the expansion of study abroad programs.

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ