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PASSAGE A. There are solid reasons for supporting, preserving, and documenting endangered languages. First, each and (1) __________ language is a celebration of the rich cultural diversity of our planet; second, each language is an expression of a unique ethnic, social, regional or cultural identity and world view; third, language is the repository (2) __________ the history and beliefs of a people; and finally, every language encodes a particular subset of fragile human knowledge (3) __________ agriculture, botany, medicine and ecology. (4) __________ a doubt, mother tongues are comprised of far more (5) __________ grammar and words. For example, Thangmi, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by an ethnic community of around 30,000 people in eastern Nepal, is a mine of unique indigenous terms for local flora and fauna that have medical and ritual value. Much of this local knowledge is falling (6) __________ disuse as fluency in Nepali, the national language, increases. (7) __________ children case to speak their mother tongue, the oral transmission of specific ethnobotanical and medical knowledge also (8) __________ to an end.
PASSAGE B. I grew up in what was then a small village, though now it would more accurately be described as a bustling town. I never really liked the small-town mentality of the place and couldn’t (1) __________ to escape. AS soon as I finished school, I moved on in search of pastures (2) __________. I was far (3) ________ alone in feeling this way. Within a few years, my classmates had scattered around the world in (4) ________ of better jobs or other opportunities. Every now and then, we would bump (5) ________ each other in some foreign city and spend some time reminiscing. There were people and places we missed of course but, on the (6) _______, none of us regretted leaving. The one exception to all of this was my best friend, Rebecca. She stayed in our hometown, started a business, got married, had children and never left (7) __________ to take the occasional holiday. While the rest of us felt that we had to go elsewhere to find ourselves, Rebecca always knew exactly who she was and what she needed to (8) _____ her happy.
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PASSAGE B. I grew up in what was then a small village, though now it would more accurately be described as a bustling town. I never really liked the small-town mentality of the place and couldn’t (1) __________ to escape. AS soon as I finished school, I moved on in search of pastures (2) __________. I was far (3) ________ alone in feeling this way. Within a few years, my classmates had scattered around the world in (4) ________ of better jobs or other opportunities. Every now and then, we would bump (5) ________ each other in some foreign city and spend some time reminiscing. There were people and places we missed of course but, on the (6) _______, none of us regretted leaving. The one exception to all of this was my best friend, Rebecca. She stayed in our hometown, started a business, got married, had children and never left (7) __________ to take the occasional holiday. While the rest of us felt that we had to go elsewhere to find ourselves, Rebecca always knew exactly who she was and what she needed to (8) _____ her happy.
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