湖南省邵阳县德望中学2020届高三第三次月考英语试题（扫描版，含文字材料无听力音频）

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On the Massachusetts coast just two hours south of Boston is Mukayuhsak
Weekuw, a Wopanaak language preschool and kindergarten founded in 2015. The school
is working to save the Wopanaak language. As one of the first tribes (kyw) to encoun
ter colonists, the Mashpee Wampanoag faced nearly four centuries of violence and de
velopment: by the mid 19th century, the last fluent speakers of wopanaak had died
In the 1990s, Wampanoag social worker Jessie Little Doe Baird began to work to
bring the language back to her people. In 1993 she sought the help of linguists and com
munity elders to begin to save the language elders like Helen Manning frorn the
Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe
Baird found a lot of resources. To translate the Bible, colonists had transcribed
(把……转成) Wopanaak to the roman alphabet in the1600s, which the Wampanoag
used to write letters, wills, and deeds to the colonial government. With these texts
Baird and MIT linguist Kenneth Hale established rules for Wopanaak spelling and
grammar, and created a dictionary of 11, 000 words
In 2015, Baird was ready to open the Mukayuhsak Weekuw preschool. According
to the schools director Jennifer Weston, 10 students attended the school in the first
year it opened, growing to 20 in the current school year. As part of the language pro-
gram, parents or grandparents of students at the school are required to attend a weekly
anguage class to ensure that the youth can continue speaking the language at home
The curriculum(i!H!)is taught entirely in the Wopanaak language, and it is also
grounded in tribal history and connection to the land. "Our languages show our
ionships to our homelands, "Weston says. They tell us who we are and
how to be good relatives.
In addition to language learning, the children also practice tribal ceremonies, tradi
tional food preservation, and traditional hunting and fishing practices. At Native Amer
ican language schools like Mukayuhsak Weekuw, students experience their culture in
he curriculum in a deeply personal and empowering way
24. What is Mukayuhsak Weekuw according to the text?
A. A language
B. A school
C. A tribe
D A project
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