| 29. Alexander von Humbolt was a German geographer and naturalist. He is famous for his _____________ of South America in the late 18th – early 19th centuries. | EXPLORE |
| 30. During one of his expeditions along the Orinoco River, he was staying with a group of local people who had several parrots who could speak. Humbolt noticed, however, that the words of one of the parrots sounded quite _____________ from those of the other parrots. | DIFFER |
| 31.He asked the people from the village why that parrot sounded so ____________ and was told that it had been taught to speak by the people of the village that no longer existed. | USUAL |
| 32. In fact, Humbolt found out, there were no people left who spoke that language, and the parrot was its last ____________. | SPEAK |
| 33. Humbolt wrote down about 40 words that the parrot could speak in his notebook, and so this language was not ______________ forgotten. |
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| 34. Modern linguists often use this story do demonstrate how important it is to record languages that die. At the moment, there are about 7,000 languages spoken on Earth, but they _____________ very quickly: one language dies every 2 weeks. In many places like Hawaii or Wales, people make special efforts to save local languages. | APPEAR |
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