Pliny was a Roman writer who 【小题1】(witness)a terrible volcanic eruption as a young man. Then he wrote about the eruption 【小题2】 occurred on August 24th,79 AD in Mount Vesuvius,near Pompeii. The tragedy had left a deep 【小题3】(impress)on Pliny whose uncle died in the event. The 【小题4】(town)were buried by the ashes of Mount Vesuvius. By 1748,archaeologists started to dig out the ancient city Pompeii. It is like a "time capsule" 【小题5】(preserve)a frozen moment in history. Not only are the buildings and objects of Pompeii 【小题6】(attract)to people,but also the forms of the people caught in the disaster have captured the imagination of people across the world. 【小题7】 these victims have been dead in Pompeii for many years,the bodies show their exact shapes,which makes people feel sympathy 【小题8】 them. Today,tourists and archaeologists visit Pompeii every year 【小题9】(learn)more about the ancient world. In this way,the city lives on 【小题10】(near)2,000 years after the eruption.