Lesson Nine Text Text Not very far from (1)Naples,a strange city sleeps under the hot Italian sun.(2)It is the city of Pompeii,and there is no other city quite like it in all the world.Nothing lives in Pompeii except (3)crickets and beetles and lizards,yet every year thousands of people travel from distant countries to visit it. Pompeii is a dead city.No one has lived there for nearly two thousand years---not since the summer of the year A.D.79 (4). to be exact.(5) Until that year Pompeii was a prosperous city of 25,000 people. Nearby was the Bay ofNaples,an arm of the blue Mediterranean. (6 Text Not very far from (1) Naples, a strange city sleeps under the hot Italian sun. (2) It is the city of Pompeii, and there is no other city quite like it in all the world. Nothing lives in Pompeii except (3) crickets and beetles and lizards, yet every year thousands of people travel from distant countries to visit it. Pompeii is a dead city. No one has lived there for nearly two thousand years---not since the summer of the year A. D. 79 (4) , to be exact.（5） Until that year Pompeii was a prosperous city of 25,000 people. Nearby was the Bay of Naples, an arm of the blue Mediterranean. (6) Lesson Nine Text 第九课 课文