VII. Read the passage and choose the best answer to fill in each blank.
There are about 6,900 languages spoken in the world. One of the (31) _________ languages which has a very small number of speakers is Hawaiian.
People speak this language (32) _________ the American state of Hawaii. Through most of the eighteenth century, Hawaiian was the only language people on the islands used, (33) _________ European travellers started to arrive and brought their languages with them, starting with explorers from England in 1778 and then the Spanish arrived in 1789.
The number of Hawaiian speakers started to (34) _________ when many schools started to use English as their main language for teaching. The good news is that, thanks to the teaching of Hawaiian again in school, (35) _________ number of fluent speakers is now up to over 24,000 people. So Hawaiian is growing again!