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(43-45) Lingua TodayMay 5, 1995   There are about 6,000-7,000 languages spoken in theworld. However, almost one language dies every two weeks.It means many languages are getting near the end of theirlives. Take Navajo for example. It is one of the languagesspoken by the native people of North America.   Today,more and more Navajo children grow up learning and speaking only English.Most of them do not even know what the 3,000-year-old Navajo languagesounds like.   Chart 1 below shows that from 1980 to 1990, the percentage (%) of youngNavajos (Age: 5-17) who speak only English grew quickly. Chart 2 shows thatin 1992, many Navajo children under the age of six spoke English well, but notmany of them spoke their parents’ language well. Clearly, the Navajo languagemay soon be lost if we don’t do something about it. ● native 原生的;原住(民)的 ● chart 圖表5ee049741c589.jpg

43. What is the reading mostly about?
(A) Plans to save the Navajo language.
(B) Why more and more Navajos learn English.
(C) Facts that show the Navajo language is dying.
(D) What makes the Navajo language different from English.

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