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"Ma uka, ma uka ka ua , Ma kai, ma kai ka ua." So sing the children at a kindergarten on the Island of Hawaii. The song is much like "Rain, rain, go away” nursery rhyme, but it has an unusual power: it is one of the tools that have revived a near-dead language.
The decline of Hawaiian was not, as is the case with most disappearing languages, a natural death caused by migration（迁徙）and mass media. In 1896, after American business interests ended the Hawaiian original political system， schools were banned from using it. By the late 20th century, apart from a couple of hundred people on one tiny island, English had replaced Hawaiian and only the old spoke it to each other.
The civil-rights movement brought a revival of interest among the young, centred on the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Larry Kimura, a professor there, was not satisfied that the language should be only a subject at college： he and his students wanted to bring it back to life. The idea for how to do that came from a visiting Maori, who suggested. “language nests", which had successfully revived New Zealand's native language.
In 1985, when educating children in Hawaiian was still banned, Kauanoe Kamana and her husband Pila Wilson, both students of Kimura's, created the first Language nest" at Hilo. Neither was a native speaker, but both were determined, to bring up their children, as such. They gathered a small group of children, including their own son and daughter, and elderly native speakers.
The movement grew： there are now 12 kindergartens and 23 schools involved. The number of children being educated in Hawaiian has risen from 1, 877 in 2008 to 3.028 in 2018. Along with Japanese, Hawaiian is the non-English language most commonly spoken among children.
1.What makes the decline of Hawaiian different from other disappearing languages?
A.The number of its users.
B.The language features it bears.
C.People's unwillingness to use it.
D.The unfair treatment it received.
2.What has been done to save Hawaiian?
A.More schools have been set up.
B.More people are persuaded to stay.
C.More children are exposed to Hawaiian.
D.Government promotes the use of Hawaiian.
3.How does the author feel about the present situation of Hawaiian?
A.Relieved. B.Curious.
C.Anxious. D.Doubtful.
4.What is the best title for the text?
A.The Revival of Hawaiian B.The Future of Hawaiian.
C.The History of Hawaiian D.The Development of Hawaiian
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Ma uka, ma uka ka ua,
Ma kai, ma kai ka ua
So sing the children at Hawaiis Punana Leo Hilo kindergarten on the Big Island of Hawaii. The chant is much like any other “Rain, rain, go away” nursery rhyme, but it has an unusual power: it is one of the tools that has brought about the revival(复兴)of a near-dead language.
The decline of Hawaiian was not, as is the case with most disappearing languages, a natural death caused by migration and mass media. In 1896, after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy (君主政体) by American business interests, schools were banned from using the language, and children were beaten for speaking it. By the late 20th century, aside from a couple of hundred people on one tiny island, English had replaced Hawaiian and only the old spoke the language to each other.
Larry Kimura, a professor there, and his students wanted to bring it back to life. In 1985, when educating children in Hawaiian was still banned, Kauanoe Kamana and her husband Pila Wilson, both students of Kimura's created the first Punana Leo (which means language nest) at Hilo. They gathered together a small group of children and elderly native speakers. The movement grew: there are now 12 kindergartens and 23 schools. The number of children being educated in Hawaiian has risen from 1,877 in 2008 to 3,028 in 2018. Along with Japanese, Hawaiian is the non-English language most commonly spoken among children.
The success has been hard-won. Campaigners had to get the law changed. “People in the community, even in our families, were saying: ‘You'll ruin your children's future. They won't be able to go to college.’ ” Such fears turned out to be unfounded. All the pupils at Nawahi, the main Hawaiian-medium school, complete high school, compared with the state average of 83%; 87% go to college, compared with a state average of 55%.
But academic outcomes are not the primary focus, says Mr. Wilson. “We value our connection with our ancestors more than we value being millionaires,” he says. Mr. Kimura explains that the schools have allowed Hawaiians to pass on their culture.
1.What made the Hawaiian language nearly die out?
A.Migration. B.The ban on it.
C.Mass media. D.Population decline.
2.What effort was made to bring the Hawaiian language back to life?
A.Going on a strike. B.Supporting the law.
C.Setting up a community college. D.Educating more local children in it.
3.What is the main value of the Hawaiian language according to Mr. Wilson?
A.Making a fortune by learning it. B.Focusing on academic outcomes.
C.Passing on the Hawaiian culture. D.Reducing the influence of English.
4.What is the best title of the passage?
A.The value of Hawaiian. B.The revival of Hawaiian.
C.The popularity of Hawaiian. D.The near-death of Hawaiian.
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(2013·河北普通高中高三质量监测)Sitting at the corner of the meeting room, he looked sad because there were so many problems ________.
A．remaining to settle
B．remained settling
C．remaining to be settled
D．remained to be settled
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The desk that ____ clean so I could do homework was always surrounded with bowls of bad milk, old magazines and so on.
A.may have been B. would have been
C. must have been D. should have been
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So far, I haven't adapted to the fast ________ of the life in Toronto.
A. step B. style C. pace D. manner
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The present situation is very complex, so I think it will take me some time to ____its reality.
A. make up B. figure out C. look through D. put off
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“When I was a boy of 14,my father was so ignorant (无知的) that I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in 7 years. “—Mark Twain
My 23-year-old daughter and I are the female
version of the above quote. When I left her father about 12 years ago she chose to stay with him. Her father was quite angry at our breakup and so was my daughter. She exactly had nothing to do with me for about 5 years, no contact, no presents to me, no overnight stays. It broke my heart.Now she works near my home. She has often slept on the sofa in my home and I so love this.
Last week I turned my study into a bedroom for her. Today a new bed and mattress(床垫) arrived and I went to Belfast to buy quilts, pillows, cushions, curtains, lampshade etc to make this into the room my daughter should have had in my home 12 years ago. She has really loved being able to input into this room for her and I have really loved creating a little special personal space for her in my home.
In the end, l worked it out but I can tell you I really learned so much by way of practicing patience in those painful early days.
I hope my little daughter who is now a young 23-year-old woman never distances herself from me again, no child should be without a Mother’s love.
1.What do you know about Mark Twain?
A. He didn’t realize his father’s good characters.
B. He didn't admire his father in his childhood.
C. He couldn't learn knowledge from his father.
D. He regretted leaving his father as a child.
2.Why did the author furniture the room so considerately?
A. To make up for love to her daughter.
B. To recover what the room used to be.
C. To attract her daughter to live there.
D. To meet her daughter’s tastes.
3.Which can replace the underlined phrase “distances herself from" in Paragraph 6?
A. lives close to B. struggles against
C. thinks highly of D. keeps a distance from
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“When I was a boy of 14,my father was so ignorant (无知的) that I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in 7 years. “—Mark Twain
My 23-year-old daughter and I are the female
version of the above quote. When I left her father about 12 years ago she chose to stay with him. Her father was quite angry at our breakup and so was my daughter. She exactly had nothing to do with me for about 5 years, no contact, no presents to me, no overnight stays. It broke my heart.Now she works near my home. She has often slept on the sofa in my home and I so love this.
Last week I turned my study into a bedroom for her. Today a new bed and mattress(床垫) arrived and I went to Belfast to buy quilts, pillows, cushions, curtains, lampshade etc to make this into the room my daughter should have had in my home 12 years ago. She has really loved being able to input into this room for her and I have really loved creating a little special personal space for her in my home.
In the end, l worked it out but I can tell you I really learned so much by way of practicing patience in those painful early days.
I hope my little daughter who is now a young 23-year-old woman never distances herself from me again, no child should be without a Mother’s love.
1.What do you know about Mark Twain?
A. He didn’t realize his father’s good characters.
B. He didn't admire his father in his childhood.
C. He couldn't learn knowledge from his father.
D. He regretted leaving his father as a child.
2.Why did the author furniture the room so considerately?
A. To make up for love to her daughter.
B. To recover what the room used to be.
C. To attract her daughter to live there.
D. To meet her daughter’s tastes.
3.Which can replace the underlined phrase “distances herself from" in Paragraph 6?
A. lives close to B. struggles against
C. thinks highly of D. keeps a distance from
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— It’s the office! So you ________ know eating is not allowed here.
— Oh, sorry.
A. must B. will C. may D. need
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CANYOUIMAGINEHOWHARDITWOULDBETOREADSENTENCESLIKETHIS? Every one of us gets so used to punctuation marks that not many of us give them a second thought．Actually, the ancient Greeks wrote this way．The lack of punctuation marks probably didn’t bother good readers, though．As they read, they just put pauses where they fit best．Also at this time, sentences switched directions．A sentence read from left to right．The next one read right to left, and then left to right again, etc． The ancient Romans sometimes punctuated like this: They put something that can separate words in a sentence．The word punctuation actually comes from this idea and the Latin word punctum, which means a dot.
When the 5th century arrived, there were just two punctuation marks: spaces and points．The spaces separated words while the points showed pauses in reading．Then in the 13th century, a printer named Aldus Manutius tried to standardize punctuation．He always used a period for a complete stop at the end of a sentence．He used a slash (/) to indicate a short pause．Over time, that slash was shortened and curled, and it became the modern comma (逗号).
Since that time, other marks have enlarged the punctuation family．The exclamation mark (感叹号) comes from the Latin word io．It means “exclamation of joy.” The question mark originally started out as the Latin word questio, meaning question．Eventually, scholars put it at the end of a sentence to show a question.
Punctuation even keeps changing nowadays．New marks are coming into existence, and old punctuation marks are used in new ways．Take for example the “interrobang”．This 1962 invention combines the question mark and exclamation mark for times when writers want both．For example, “She did what?” or “How much did you pay for that dress?” Obviously, the interrobang is not widely used or recognized yet, but its invention shows that English is not yet finished with its punctuation.
1.From the first paragraph, we can know that _______.
A． good readers had trouble reading without punctuation marks
B． a sentence always read from left to right in ancient Greece
C． ancient Greeks switched the direction of punctuation marks
D． the use of punctuation marks can date back to ancient times
2.The passage is developed _______.
A． by time B． by space
C． by comparison D． by importance
3.We can learn from the passage that _______.
A． ancient Romans didn’t use any punctuation marks
B． exclamation and question marks came from Latin
C． spaces and slashes were already used before the 5th century
D． Aldus Manutius first started to use commas
4.What can be concluded from the last paragraph?
A． The combination of two marks will not work.
B． It takes time for people to accept new punctuation marks.
C． Old punctuation marks need to be standardized.
D． Punctuation marks are still changing today.
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version of the above quote. When I left her father about 12 years ago she chose to stay with him. Her father was quite angry at our breakup and so was my daughter. She exactly had nothing to do with me for about 5 years, no contact, no presents to me, no overnight stays. It broke my heart.