Thereareabout6,000languagesintheworldandsomeexpertssaythatasmanyashalfoftheselanguageswilldisappearinthenextonehundredyears.WillShanghaihuabeoneoft?It'saquestionthatmorepeopleareasking.InChina

Question

　　There are about 6,000 languages in the world and some experts say that as many as half of these languages will disappear in the next one hundred years. Will Shanghaihua be one of t____? It's a question that more people are asking.
　　In China Putonghua is the official language. That m____it's the language of government, business and the media(媒体). And it's also the language that is used in schools.
　　Shanghai is a special city. It is modern, fashionable ad sophisticated(老练的). And Shanghaihua shows that by being modern, fashionable and sophisticated,“I love riding on the b____and listening to people speaking Shanghaihua.”Miss Evans, an American reporter said.“I don't understand a word they are saying but I like the sound of the language. It sounds smoother than Putonghua. And Shanghainese like things“renao”(热闹), so even a discussion about the weather can sound l____an argument or a party. My bus rides are always interesting.”
　　Young people still speak Shanghaihua but not as well as their parents and prandparents. They are under more and more pressure(压力) to speak Putonghua. So the language is being used l____often in everyday life. Some people want to keep the language from disappearing completely by building museums and having cultural festivals to save it. But a language isn't a painting or a book. It's a living thing and you e____use it or lose it.
　　If people stop using it in their d____lives, a museum or a festival will not help. It will be lost forever, like the Yangtze River dolphin.

Answer 1

【分析】1. 用代词them指代前面提到的将在100年内消失的语言，one of them 其中之一。
2. 在中国，普通话是官方语言。这意味着……。mean“表示……意思，意味着”，主语It是第三人称单数，填means。
3. ride on the bus“乘公共汽车”。我喜欢乘坐公共汽车，听人们讲上海话。
4. sound like 听起来像。因此即使是一个关于天气的讨论也能听起来像一场争吵或一个派队。
5. 因此上海话在日常生活中被使用的频率越来越低了。用比较级形式less。
6. 语言不是艺术作品或书，它是活的，你或者使用它或者放弃它。either...or... 或者……或者……。
7. daily lives 日常生活，如果人们在日常生活中停止使用它，博物馆或节日将没有任何帮助。