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In an effort to prevent language loss,scholars from a number of organizations — UNESCO and National Geographic among them — have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Center,Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, looking and raising a family in a village in Nepal.

Documenting the Tangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayans reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.

At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials — including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes — which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.

Now, through the two organizations that he has founded — the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project — Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, found in libraries and stores around the world,available not just to scholars but to the youngers.

Generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected. Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

10 am to 10 pm, Saturday, March 4

You will not want to miss this celebration for the opening of your new neighborhood bookstore! Conveniently located at 2289 Main Street, The Book Nook is within walking distance of schools and many homes and businesses. Come check out The Book Nook on Saturday! Festivities（庆祝活动）will include:

★Free refreshments（茶点）

★Live music by local musicians

★One Book-of-the-Month Club membership giveaway

Wide Selection

The Book Nook has three floors with books of all kinds-any kind you could want. If we do not have the book you are looking for, we can specially order it for you. You will have it in your hands in two days!

Reading Nooks

We are proud of our children's reading area（located behind the Poetry Section on the first floor, as well as our teenagers' nook on the second floor. Come for the festivities and stay awhile! Settle in one of these reading areas; curl up（蜷缩）with a good book and a free cup of hot chocolate. You will discover the perfect way to spend a few hours.

Book Events

The Book Nook will be featuring monthly book signings by different authors, giving you a chance to meet and speak with well-known writers. Do not miss the unforgettable experience of hearing distinguished authors read aloud from their own books!

We also have summer reading programs for children of all ages. These programs are a great way to meet other children and share ideas about your favorite books.

The Book-of-the-Month Club

Our Book-of-the-Month Club will feature 12 books each year. As a member, you will select one newly released title each month from the category of your choice. The membership fee is S120.00. That is a great price for 12 books per year!

So please join us on Saturday and learn about all that The Book Nook has to offer. You can come anytime between 10 am and 10 pm—the celebration lasts all day long!

—Yes, it broke down yesterday, but it___________.

December 1952 in Wisconsin was bitterly cold. A curious 7-year-old, I was in hesitation when my father arrived home from work with something hidden in his jacket. "Guess what I have," he said. He slowly unwrapped the jacket to take out a frozen owl (猫头鹰). He'd found the frozen bird on his car when he left work and guessed that it had flown into the windshield (挡风玻璃).

Dad thought it might be alive and wanted to let it warm up. My mother agreed to let the bird stay overnight, so Dad and I took it to the basement( 地下室) and carefully laid it near our coal stove. I was the first one into the kitchen the next morning for a bowl of cereal (麦片). I found the owl resting on the sugar bowl as if waiting for its breakfast. I hurried to tell my parents that the owl was alive and sitting at the kitchen table. Mom didn't like that it was in the kitchen and wanted it out of the house.

Dad instructed me to open the back door while he forced the owl toward me. I heard the flapping of wings, but before I could direct its flight outside, the owl turned around away from the cold air coming in the door and flew past me, down the stairs into the shelter of the warm basement. Resting in the space near the top of the basement, the owl was safely beyond our reach. We tried driving it out with a broom, but it calmly flew to the far side of the basement. Soon Dad and I were laughing too hard to continue, and we realized there was no way we could drive the owl out if it wanted to stay. Mom agreed to have it in the house until Dad could catch it when it became weak from hunger. But that never happened.

注意：

1. 续写词数应为150左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The door didn't shut properly, which allowed mice into the basement.

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As spring arrived, we knew it was time for the owl to leave.

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