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1、Lifeinthefuture一、阅读理解。Oneofthemainchallengesfacingmanycountriesishowtomaintaintheiridentityinthefaceofglobalizationandthegrowingmulti-languagetrend.＂OneofthemainreasonsforeconomicfailureinmanyAfricancountriesisthefactthat,withafewimportantexceptions,mother-tongueeducationisnotpr
2、acticedinanyoftheindependentAfricanstates.＂saidNevilleAlexander,DirectoroftheProjectfortheStudyofAlternativeEducationinSouthAfricaattheUniversityofCapeTown.InresponsetothespreadofEnglishandtheincreasedmulti-languagetrendsarisingfromimmigration,manycountrieshaveintroducedlanguage
3、lawsinthelastdecade.Insome,theuseoflanguagesotherthanthenationallanguageisbannedinpublicspacessuchasadvertisingposters.Oneofthefirstsuchlegalprovisions(规定)wasthe1994＂Toubonlaw＂inFrance,andtheideahasbeencopiedinmanycountriessincethen.Sucheffortstogovernlanguageuseareoftenconsider
4、edasfutilebylanguageexperts,whoarewellawareofthedifficultyincontrollingfashionsinspeechandknowfromresearchthatlanguageswitchingamongbilingualsisanaturalprocess.ItisespeciallydifficultfornativespeakersofEnglishtounderstandthedesiretomaintainthe＂purity＂ofalanguagebylaw.Sincethetim
5、eofShakespeare,Englishhascontinuallyabsorbedforeignwordsintoitsownlanguage.Englishisoneofthemostmixedandrapidlychanginglanguagesintheworld,butthathasnotbeenabarriertoacquiringsuperiorityandpower.AnotherreasonforthefailureofmanynativeEnglishspeakerstounderstandtheroleofthestatere
6、gulationisthatithasneverbeentheAnglo-Saxonwayofdoingthings.Englishhasneverhadastate-controlledauthorityforthelanguage,similar,forexample,totheAcademicFrancaiseinFrance.Theneedtoprotectnationallanguagesis,formostwesternEuropeans,arecentphenomenon-especiallytheneedtoensurethatEngl
7、ishdoesnotunnecessarilytakeovertoomanyfields.Publicmunication,educationandnewwaysofmunicationpromotedbytechnology,maybekeyfieldstodefend.1.NevilleAlexanderbelievesthat__________.A.mother-tongueeducationisnotpracticedinallAfricancountriesB.globalizationhasresultedintheeconomicfai
8、lureofAfricaC.globalizationhasledtotheriseofmul
