08-2019-2020学年高二下学期英语期末备考之语法填空集训

Day 8 When scholars of international relations predict that the 21st century will be a “Chinese century”, they are full of reasons. ___1___ America remains the only superpower, China is responsible for an important share of global change. Since ___2___ start of the financial crisis in 2008, for example, China has accounted ___3___45% of the gain in world GDP. In 1990 about 750 million Chinese people lived in extreme poverty; today fewer than 10 million do. Its GDP per person, in terms of purchasing-power, ___4___ (rise) ten times since 1990. China’s amazing ___5___ (perform) has greatly affected the world’s economic output. The Economist has worked out a geographic center of the global economy by ___6___ (take) an average of each country’s latitude and longitude(经纬度), ___7___ (measure) by its GDP. At the height of America’s control, this point ___8___ (previous) sat in the north Atlantic. But China has pulled it so far east ___9___ the global center of economic gravity ___10___ (be) n