第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分l5分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使 用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答卷标号为3 1~40的相应位置上。
Since last year, some have argued that a G2 0fthe US and China will dominate the world after the financial crisis. the US may be declining and China rising. The economic gap between the two countries is 3 1 （narrow），though it will be 32 two or three decades before China, economy equals_33 of the US. It is China, ever-increasing influence 34 probably means it becomes a world leader in the following three decades，and achieves a fairly equal relationship win the US.
