课时提能练(十八) 必修5 Unit 13 People(B)
(对应学生用书第283页)
Ⅰ.阅读理解
(2017·湖南六校联盟高三联考)
Taktak tabulaba?
You probably don't know how to answer that question—unless you happen to be one of the about 430 people in the world who speak a language called Matukar Panau.Then you would know it means “What are we doing？”Matukar Panau is one of the world's rarest languages.It is spoken in just two small coastal villages in Papua New Guinea.
Several years ago，David Harrison，a language expert，didn't know much about Matukar Panau either.No one had ever recorded or even studied its words and rules.With so few speakers，the language risked disappearing soon.It was endangered.
Harrison didn't want that to happen to Matukar Panau.So in 2009，he set out for Papua New
