--- Why don’t you ride your bicycle today?
--- Oh, it broke down. It ________ now.

--- Would you care for a cup of coffee?
--- I ________ one. Thank you just the same.

With more forests being destroyed, huge quantities of good earth ______ each year.

----what do you think of the Chinese language today?
----Quite popular. It______ in communicating with other countries. More and more foreign friends are learning Chinese.

The 1930s __________ the suffering of the Chinese from war.

Kathy ______ a lot of Spanish by playing with the native boys and girls.

The red light above the elevator______ that he was at the tenth floor then.

Lacking rain, many river in Yunnan province have ______ recently.

A pilot climbed into the jet and off he ______, leaving the ground far behind.

People wrote letters to get in touch in the past. Nowadays email has       the way people communicate.