这篇文章主要讲的是欧洲人都以他们说的语言的地名命名。接着讲了“草原假说”，即是牧民在中亚呆了很长时间然后把语言带到了欧洲，但是这个假说缺少证据，最后说了一安纳托利亚假说，以及这个地方语言来源历史。下面前程百利小编带大家一块看一下这篇托福听力背景材料中出现的生词和疑难句，正在备考托福听力的同学可以参考一下。
Modern European languages tend to share their names with the places they're spoken. Swedish: Sweden. German: Germany. And so on. But where'd they come from before that? One theory is the "Anatolian hypothesis," Anatolia referring roughly to the Asian part of Turkey. "So the proposal was that it was agriculturalists from the Near East and present-day Turkey and Cyprus who were bringing agriculture to Europe. And that this mass movement of people bringing agriculture, also brought languages." David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School.
The Anatolian hypothesis has languages from the Indo-European family hitting Europe around 8,500 years ago. But as with any academic theory, there's a competing idea: the so-called "steppe hypothesis." Which says it was herders—not farmers—who galloped in from the grasslands of central Asia five or six thousand years ago, bringing language with them. But the steppe hypothesis was lacking for evidence.
Now Reich and his colleagues have analyzed the DNA found in the remains of 94 ancient Europeans. And this molecular evidence does indeed point to a migration from the steppe into central Europe about 4,500 years ago. "And it's a massive event—at least three quarters of the population got replaced by people who are never in that part of continental Europe before." The finding is in the journal Nature.
Of course old bones tell us only so much. "So genetics is of course silent on the languages people spoke and we'll never be able to figure that out. We can only determine migrations occurred." But a migration of this scale, he says, surely delivered at least some of Europe's languages. "Perhaps the languages spoken in parts of northern Europe today"—like the one I'm speaking right now.
疑难词汇：
Steppe 大草原
Colleagues n. 同事;同行
长难句解析：
1."And it's a massive event—at least three quarters of the population got replaced by people who are never in that part of continental Europe before."
难句类型
Who 引导的定语从句
句子主干：
it's a massive event
难句拆分;
Who 引导的定语从句修饰people
好了，以上就是前程百利小编为大家整理的托福听力背景材料中学单词+疑难句之语言传播的内容，希望在备考的路上助大家一臂之力。最后，小编祝大家在托福考试中取得好成绩！
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