高考Altogether there are some ten thousand of these volcanoes on earth, all but a few hundred of them extinct.

地球上总共有大约一万座这样的火山，除了几百座以外都灭绝了。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonisation, and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between unsafe and extinct.

美国已经失去了欧洲殖民前三分之一以上的本土语言，其余192种被联合国教科文组织归类为不安全语言和灭绝语言。

2016年6月听力原文

六级Some polar animals will soon become extinct.

一些极地动物很快就会灭绝。

2010年12月听力原文

六级With all that attention paid to them, you’d think these creatures would at least have the gratitude not to go extinct.

有了这些关注，你会认为这些生物至少会感激自己没有灭绝。

2009年6月英语六级真题

考研They all seem to look alike (though they come from all over)—lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a. m. When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals: they suddenly became extinct.

他们看起来都很像（尽管他们来自各地）——瘦削、尖尖、专注的脸，穿着牛仔裤和凉鞋，吃着面包，在剧院外的石板上过夜，购买为露宿者准备的20个座位和80张站票，并在上午10:30票房开放时卖给他们。

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