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For Lei Meifeng, singing is not merely about singing. For the past three decades, it has been about saving her ethnic (种族的) group's culture from the edge of extinction(灭绝).
The 51yearold Lei has devoted most of her life to studying and promoting the ethnic songs of the She people, an ethnic group mostly in Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong Provinces in China.
“There would be no She culture without its folk songs. The language would be gone as well. The people would lose their interest and eventually forget who they are，” she said.
With a population of over 700，000, according to the most recent surveys, the She people have their own language, but the fact that the language has no written form has made it difficult to pass down.
Lei, a native of Houdun Village in Ningde City of Fujian Province, explained that the songs are an important part of the social life for the She people. “We people use the songs to greet strangers, to know each other and to challenge each other，” Lei said. “Someone who loses a fight must go back to perfect his or her skills and make another challenge the next year, or he or she will be laughed at forever.” She added that many young She people in the past would gather during the musical meetings of the ethnic group and sing outdoors the whole night—a tradition that has long been gone.
“To sing the She songs would require speaking in tongues，” she said. “The young people barely speak their native language now.”
( D )21．In the past thirty years, Lei Meifeng has been singing in order to ________ .
A．be famous
B．make more money
C．help those who need help
D．save the She people's culture
( C )22．What is the most important for the She culture according to Lei?
A．She people's language.
B．She people's interest.
C．She people's folk songs.
D．She people's devotion.
( C )23．What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A．Lei likes to sing the She songs using her tongue.
B．Lei has a positive attitude to the She people's language.
C．Lei is worried the She people's language will be lost.
D．Lei likes to communicate with the young about their native language.
答案及解析：
【语篇解读】本文主要介绍了51岁的雷美凤所做的一切是在研究和推广畲族的民族歌曲，是将畲族文化从灭绝的边缘拯救回来。
21．D 细节理解题。根据第一段的For Lei Meifeng, singing is not merely about singing. For the past three decades, it has been about saving her ethnic(种族的) group's culture from the edge of extinction(灭绝)可知，雷美凤在过去三十年里，一直在唱歌的目的是拯救畲族文化。故选D。
22．C 细节理解题。根据第三段的There would be no She culture without its folk songs可知，雷美凤认为，畲族的民歌对于畲族文化来说是最重要的。故选C项。
23．C 推理判断题。根据最后一段的“The young people barely speak their native language now.”可推知，雷美凤担心畲族的语言将来会失传。
