剑9 Test4 高分范文

剑9 Test4 高分范文

Recent surveys suggest that many existing languages are facing extinction. Some people claim that there is nothing to worry about and communication between nations may even become less difficult as a result. However, I do not agree with this opinion because diversity is crucial to the survival and development of human civilization as a whole.

It is true that too many languages sometimes hinder communication and cause misunderstandings or even frustrations. We have to speak the same language to communicate well, which is why many people strive to learn a second language or even a third. But it does not mean that we do not have to protect the endangered languages as languages serve more important functions than communication. It is both a carrier of culture and a symbol of the identity of the people who speak it.

Undoubtedly, a language is a record of how the people who speak it have evolved. Therefore, it can provide clues as to how mankind as a whole has developed. Furthermore, the existence of a large number of language is conducive to cultural diversity and cultural exchanges which have resulted in some of the most important inventions or discoveries in the world. But how could cultural exchanges be possible if there were very few, or only one language left?

Apparently the idea that life will be easier if there are fewer language is too short sighted. People holding this view fail to take into consideration the role that

language play in cultural diversity upon which the survival of mankind and social progress build.

As the English language becomes more widespread, some speakers of other languages fear that English loanwords are gradually replacing perfectly adequate native words.