Questõesde UNB 2010

The fate of a language depends ultimately on its diversification.

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

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 word trigger in “by triggering positive feelings” (L. 24) is the same as hinder.

The word subside in the fragment “even after the laughter subsides” (L.8) means augment.

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.

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

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

Language diversity is imperilled.

The word “dauntless” in the fragment “man’s dauntless ally in the battle” (L.40) is synonymous with fearless.

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.

Laughing is a reflex action.

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

Infants begin smiling very early in life.

Laughter unites people.

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

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

Laughing can be a means to overcome problems.