5.猜测词义题。根据第二段最后的documenting dying languages可以推断出Mark Turin教授也加入到了拯救正在消失的语言的行列中,他想把这些语言全部记录下来,所以答案为A项。

6.事实细节题。根据第三段最后一句话中的"...grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal."可知Turin的这本书是以自己在尼泊尔一个村庄的生活经历为基础写出来的,所以答案为D项。

7.事实细节题。根据最后一段的"from whom the materials were originally collected"和"the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities"可知答案为C项.

【长难句分析】As more and more people speak the global languages of English,Chinese,Spanish,and Arabic,other languages are rapidly disappearing.随着越来越多的人讲诸如英语、汉语、西班牙语和阿拉伯语这些全球性语言,其他语言正在迅速消失。该句为复合句。句首的as引导时间状语从句,意为"随着......";主句谓语是现在进行时态。

　　Youth football team members rescued more than two weeks after sudden flooding trapped them in a cave in Thailand are now being well looked after at a hospital in the northern city of Chiang Rai. In addition to treating the boys for potential body fluid loss, inadequate nutrition and lack of oxygen, their doctors also plan to closely monitor them for symptoms of diseases that may have been infected by animals living in the cave.

　　"The next step is to make sure those kids and their families are safe, because living in a cave provides a different environment, which might contain animals that could transmit...disease," said the local hospital. The boys and their family members have been told to watch for symptoms such as headache, nausea(反胃), muscle pain or difficulty breathing, the reports added.

Yet based on the location where the boys were trapped-more than four kilometers from the cave complex's main entrance, past some fully submerged passages-and the fact they have been swimming out wearing full scuba face masks, it seems unlikely that they were living with bats in the cave or breathed in bat-associated bacteria during their rescue, several infectious disease experts said. "It's hard to imagine bats got that deep into the cave because of all those narrow passageways, but it is possible," says Ian Lipkin, an animal expert and professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. "It's unlikely that there would be many animals