[填空题]How many major language families are there today

[单项选择]How many major tennis championships are there
A. Four.
B. Three.
C. Two.
D. One.

[填空题]How many languages exist in the world today This is not a very easy question to answer, because it’s difficult to distinguish languages from the different (1) of the same language. There are 5,000 to 6,000 languages in the world today. However, 96% of the world’s (2) speak only 4% of those languages. Some languages have millions of speakers and Chinese has over a (3) . Other languages, however, have very few speakers. In Alaska there’s only one person left who speaks Eyak and she’s 83 years old. Many languages that people used to speak around the world have now (4) . Students of classics still learn dead languages such as ancient Greek and Latin, but they don’t speak them in their (5) .
Does this mean that languages which don’t belong to that 4% are eventually going to (6) Probably not. In Hawaii, some people speak the local languages that used to be dead, so, in other words, there’s still hope.

[填空题]How many students is studying in Harvard today according to the speaker

[填空题]How many people are there in the world today

[单项选择]How many subjects does the boy have for today
A. 6.
B. 7.
C. 8.

[单项选择]How many students are not in the class today
A. Two.
B. Three.
C. Four.

[简答题]

Today many people who live in large metropolitan areas such as Paris and New York leave the city m summer. They go to the mountains or to the seashores to escape the city noise and heat. Over 2.000 years ago, many rich Romans spent their summers in the city of Pompeii. Pompeii was a beautiful city. It was located on the ocean, on the Bay of Naples. In the year 79 A. D., a young Roman boy who later became a very famous Roman historian was visiting his uncle in Pompeii. The boy’s name was Pliny. One day Pliny was looking at the sky. He saw a frightening sight. It was a very large dark cloud, this black cloud rose high into the Sky. Rock and ash flew through the air. What Pliny saw was the eruption—the explosion—of the volcano. The city of Pompeii was at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius.
When the volcano first erupted, many people were able to flee the city and to escape death. In fact, 18,000 people escaped the terrible disaster. Unfortunately, there was not enoug