Questõesde UNB sobre Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

The word “which” in the fragment “which have imposed new methods” refers to “industrialization and scientific progress” (L.14).

Languages such as Basque and Tamil may disappear in the foreseeable future.

Ten languages have died out each year all through the world.

The fate of a language depends ultimately on its diversification.

Given the speed at which languages are dying out, 15 per cent of the languages spoken today will have disappeared in a period of 300 years.

The disappearance of minority languages may be accompanied by the emergence of new variants spawned by the diversification of dominant languages.

Approximately 6,000 languages are spoken in the world today.

The main idea of the text is that language diversity is an obstacle to trade and to the spread of knowledge.

Language diversity is imperilled.

According to specialists, languages are condemned to death unless as many as 100,000 people speak them.

By the end of this century, the rate of language extinction will have reached unprecedented levels.

Laughing can be a means to overcome problems.

Laughing is a reflex action.

As the world is increasingly shrinking due to the complex interaction among people from cultures across the world, differences involving conceptions about death are becoming less significant.

One can learn to laugh at any stage of one’s life thus incorporating humor into the fabric of one’s life.

Infants begin smiling very early in life.

Cultural variations in conceptions of death have profound implications for how people act in life, how they approach death and dying, whether or not they fear death, and for their funeral and bereavement practices.

Laughter unites people.

Laughing is solely a pause for relaxation from pains one may suffer.

The knowledge of what man is in his real nature is what explains his desire to live.