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    The death of languages has been accelerated in the modern era by increased population movement. Local languages may be replaced by dominant metropolitan languages, increasing pressure to abandon ancestral tongues in favor of the new language seen as key to success. The death of any language represents an irretrievable cultural loss for the world, as each expresses a unique worldview. Efforts should be made to preserve linguistic variety and respect other cultures.

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    The death of languages has been accelerated in the modern era by increased population movement. Local languages may be replaced by dominant metropolitan languages, increasing pressure to abandon ancestral tongues in favor of the new language seen as key to success. The death of any language represents an irretrievable cultural loss for the world, as each expresses a unique worldview. Efforts should be made to preserve linguistic variety and respect other cultures.

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    The death of languages has been accelerated in the modern era by increased population movement. Local languages may be replaced by dominant metropolitan languages, increasing pressure to abandon ancestral tongues in favor of the new language seen as key to success. The death of any language represents an irretrievable cultural loss for the world, as each expresses a unique worldview. Efforts should be made to preserve linguistic variety and respect other cultures.

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    6.

    THE DEATH OF LANGUAGES


    The death of languages has been repeated many times in history. Localised disasters such
    as great floods or warfare have (1) a part, but in the modern era the increased
    international movement of people has greatly (2) the destruction. Local languages
    may be overpowered by a metropolitan language, thus increasing the pressure to neglect
    ancestral tongues in (3) of the new one, which is seen as the key to prospering in the
    (4) culture. Children may be forbidden to use their mother tongue in the classroom,
    as has occurred to many groups, including the Welsh and Aboriginal Australians. The
    death of a language is not only a tragedy for those directly affected, but also an (5)
    cultural loss for the world. Through language, each culture expresses a unique
    worldview. Thus, any effort to (6) linguistic variety implies a deep respect for the
    positive values of other cultures.
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    7.OLD FRIENDS
    Dear Davina and Simon, began the letter from Debbie, A visit from your family
    wouldnt be complete without a subsequent visit to the Post Office. Im pleased to say
    that that this time youve left only a minor item that didnt (1) me in fretting over
    who wasnt going to be able to clean their teeth or explain to a teacher about a missing
    homework book.
    (2) of how often I entreat the kids to pack up their own stuff, or how (3) I
    search the bedrooms and bathroom, we always leave something behind.
    Weve known Debbie and Andrew since before any of our children were born. Debbie
    and I had our first babies at around the same time, and lent each other lots of moral and
    practical support. What you (4) then, I suggest, bonds you to those you (5) the
    experience with. When we lived round the corner from each other, all this leaving behind
    of possessions never (6) but since they moved 70 kilometres away the leavings have
    had to be posted back.

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    8. BEAUTY FROM THE BEAST


    Our cashmere sweaters are made (1) of the purest, whitest cashmere in the
    world. It comes from the rugged goats that (2) the dry, barren, windswept plains of
    Inner Mongolia. Grazing is (3) even in the summer months, and winter
    temperatures drop down to 30 degrees below freezing with the (4) that the goats
    grow a unique protect fleece. A fraction of the width of a human hair, its the rarer downy
    underhairs growing closest to the goats body that are the most (5) and the only
    fibres used in our sweaters. Why? Well, for a start, theyre the longest, and longer fibres
    yield softer, stronger, more consistent yarns which can be knit tighter to aid longevity.
    And (6) even the finest cashmere grows in several natural shades, we use only
    white. White fibres hold dyes better to give our sweaters a rich, natural hue.
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    9. THE ELEPHANT ORCHESTRA


    Some of the forty-six elephants living at the Elephant Conservation Centre near Lampang
    in Thailand have (1) a new life in music. Six of the centres elephants (2) the
    Thai Elephant Orchestra by playing a variety of percussion instruments. Those familiar
    with Thai instruments will recognise the slit drums, the gong and the thundersheel. The
    only difference is that the elephant (3) are a bit sturdier. When they play, the
    elephants are given a (4) to tell them when to start; after that, they improvise. They
    clearly have a (5) sense of rhythm. They flap their ears to the beat and some add to
    the melody with their own trumpeting. Elephant mood-music, it seems, could have a
    commercial future. A thirteen-track CD has been produced and anyone not knowing who
    the players were would simply (6) them to be human. All profits from the sales of
    the CD are helping to keep the centre going.
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    10. NEW ADVENTURE


    It was normal that I should feel some anxiety about my departure. Not only was I setting
    out to a place I had never been before, I was also (1) on a kind of life about which I
    knew nothing and, what is more, striping myself of all that was familiar to me into the (2)
    . We are all, in our journey through life, navigating towards some special, dreamed-

    of place; and if for some reason we are (3) off course, then we must strike out, at
    whatever risk, to (4) things right. Not all of these forays need have the drastic
    flavour of my own leap into the unknown; some are such subtle turnings that it is only
    afterwards that one looks back and sees what is was all (5) to. But to drift, blown
    this way and that or for that (6) to pursue a wrong course for the sake of fear or
    pride, costs time; and we none of us have too much of that.
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