Listening task 4

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 5

01:34

The Hyperloop is going to use ...

1. solar energy.
2. the energy from the vacuum created in the tube
3. the vacuum and fuel
4. fuel

02:05

The Hyperloop is going to be ...

1. 4 times faster than Japan's bullet train.
2. faster than a plane.
3. 3 times faster than Eurostar.
4. 3 times faster than a Tesla.

02:18

You will be able to travel around the world in ...

1. less than 6 hours.
2. 6 hours.
3. 16 hours.
4. more than 6 hours.

02:22

The Hyperloop tube is ...

1. something that experts think could be made in a far future.
2. still science fiction, and it’s not very likely that it will exist.
3. something that is already here.
4. something that is already being developed.

02:43

The cost of the Hyperloop is going to be ...

1. 0,10% the cost of a train.
2. 0,15% of the cost of a road.
3. 0,25% of the cost of the underground.
4. 0,20% of the cost of a plane.

00:25

The words he mentions at the beginning of the video belong to languages...

1. that might disappear soon.
2. that were spoken in the past.
3. that he would like to speak.

00:42

Which sentence is correct?

1. Over 17,000 languages are spoken in the world.
2. 40% of languages have disappeared.
3. 1 out of 3 languages in the world have fewer than 1,000 speakers.

01:14

According to the video, Latin...

1. was the first important language to die.
2. is still spoken today but in different forms.
3. died over 2,000 ago.

01:41

The chart shows...

1. the health of today's languages
2. the languages that are still spoken and extinct languages.
3. languages in danger of extinction.

02:09

In the Soviet Union, ...

1. some people refused to speak Russian.
2. young people saw how necessary it was to speak Russian.
3. the government forced the people to speak only Russian.

02:37

Hebrew...

1. is the official language in more than one country.
2. has four million speakers.
3. is the only dead language that came to life again.

03:20

Cornish is...

1. a language spoken only by a few.
2. a dead language.
3. the second most spoken language in Wales.