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　　广州市2016-2017学年高二12月学业水平测试英语试题
　　本试卷分四部分，共 12 页，满分 150 分。考试时间 120 分钟。
　　注意事项：
　　1. 答卷前，考生务必在答题卡上用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写自己的测试证号和姓名； 填写考区考场室号、座位号，再用 2B 铅笔把对应的两个号码涂黑。
　　2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用 2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动， 用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案；不能答在试卷上。
　　3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答。答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域 内的相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅 笔、圆珠笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
　　4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束时，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。
　　I 听力（共两节，满分 20 分） 略
　　II  语言知识及应用（共两节，满分 45 分）
　　第一节 完形填空（共 15 小题，每小题 2 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 16~30 各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中，选出最佳
　　选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
　　Throughout   history,   languages   have   appeared   and   disappeared.   The   languages   of
　　16 groups have spread while the languages of smaller cultures have 17 .
　　One language expert famously defined a/an _18_ as “a dialect with an army”. Today, what drives a language to new places is not a/an 19_ but things like television, the Internet and international business.
　　In a global society, languages spoken in remote places are no longer _20 from the languages used for world communication and commerce (商业). Widely-used languages such as Mandarin,  English,  Russian  and  Spanish  reach  into  tiny  communities  and  compete  with
　　21 languages. When one language is 22_ used, children from minority language groups tend to lose their native languages as they grow up, attend school and start working. This is partly because some people think that speaking these smaller languages is a
　　23 to success. These attitudes, along with the strong desire to fit-in, 24 the use of minority languages. Political pressure can further 25 the survival of smaller languages, such as when governments ban the use of smaller languages in education or the media.
　　Why is the disappearance of a language with a small number of speakers a concern? Different languages express different ways of 26_