Britain is a "second-rate power" which has been ________ for a century—yet London remains the most influential city in the world.
A.in decline B.in effect
C.on the move D.on the rise
The company has got ________ from many users both at home and abroad for top-quality products and services.
A.benefit B.apology C.credit D.envy
________ China of those years in the hit TV series—The Legend of Miyue is ________ China at War.
A.The:不填 B.The; a C.不填;;a D.不填;不填
书面表达
假定你是李华，你的美国笔友Jack给你发来邮件，告诉你他参加美国中西部“汉语桥”比赛（U. S. Midwest Chinese Bridge Speech Contest）获得了一等奖，希望你继续帮他学习中文。请你给他回复一封电子邮件。要点如下：
1．祝贺他获奖；
2．希望继续向他学习英语，你帮他学中文；
3．祝愿他能来中国参加决赛。
注意：
1．词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
In recently years, the sandstorm has occurred a lot of times, doing great harm to our daily life. Some people would rather to stay at home for fear of the dirty air caused by the sandstorm. Diseases relate to sandstorm get more and more people to hospital. What’s worse, many flights have to put off.
It’s an urgent task for us to take actions to stop sandstorms from happen. All citizens should raise our awareness of protecting the environment. We should plant more trees and don’t cut them down or dig up grass, where can contribute for land protection. Only in this way can we had a bluer sky and a better world to live in.
阅读下面材料，在空格处填入适录的内容（1个单词）或使用括号内单词的正确形式。
The best travel experience of my life
Before I realized what had happened, we were off the ground. The earth just seemed to drop away from the hot air balloon. I 1.__________(honest) felt nothing when the ropes were unfastened and we started to fly into the sky. Graeme reminded us 2.__________(relax). He then set out to point out some of the best sights and photo opportunities, starting with the sunrise. Once the sun was up, the temples and pagodas were even 3.__________(beautiful). Graeme was too anxious to introduce some of his 4.__________(person) favourites, as well as those buildings experiencing repair work.
With the end of our flight 5.__________(approach), Graeme began to describe some final sites to us, including a small village and farm area. He then reminded us of landing procedures and asked us to hold additional sightseeing 6.__________(question) while he concentrated on the landing.7.__________ I really appreciated was that he was so clear and responsible 8.__________ safety! Our gentle landing went off smoothly and we were soon back on solid land. Hot air balloon rides 9.__________ (be) an unbelievable travel experience and I cannot think of 10.__________ more exciting place to enjoy them than in Bagan.
