[单项选择]The symbol marking the declination of the British Empire is
A. World War Ⅱ.
B. The Suez Canal Crisis.
C. The independence of British Colonies.
D. The establishment of the Commonwealth.

[单项选择]The symbol marking the declination of the British Empire is

[单项选择]The British Empire was replaced by the British Commonwealth or the Commonwealth of Nations in

[单项选择]I contend, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but of love.
A. respectation
B. possession
C. dominance
D. destruction

[单项选择]British Prime Minister Tony Blair seems


A. to push for a military action against Iraq.
B. to demand Iraq disarm itself immediately.
C. to make a convincing case for tough action.
D. to threat to plan a tough action against Iraq.

[单项选择]Semantic triangle is made up of reference, symbol and ______.
A. referent B. meaning C. thought D. words or phrases

[单项选择]Paper-marking is ______ of ancient China.
A. one of greatest inventor
B. one of the greatest inventors
C. one of greatest invention
D. one of the greatest inventions

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The mysterious tiger has been a symbol of power and strength for centuries. Its power is a (1) to hunters, (2) have tried to kill it to prove their own skill and (3) . In India (4) the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, large parties of (5) from around the world (6) go out on huge tiger hunts. Hundreds of tigers could be killed in a few weeks. As a (7) of this over-hunting, (8) with loss of habitat(栖息地), the population of tigers in India dropped from about 40,000 (9) the turn of the twentieth century to about 2,000 by 1972.
With the help of India and other concerned countries, the World Wildlife Fund (10) Operation Tiger in 1972 to save the tiger (11) dying out. Since then, seventeen tiger preserves (保护区) have been (12) , and the tiger population in India has risen to (13) 4,000 and 5,000.
But when people live on the (14) of the tiger preserves, tigers sometimes kill their farm animals and attack people--about 600 people in India have been ki
A. result
B. condition
C. lack
D. cause