本期继续我们的改词扩句，主讲动词的运用以及比较级的替换。
原句：
In recent years, such majors as international finance, finance and accountancy, international trade have become more and more popular.
改句：
Recent years have witnessed an increase in the popularity of such majors as international finance, finance and accountancy, international trade.
【解析】先仔细观察原句，发现原句中存在一个more and more的比较级，还发现原句中的头比尾重很多，在地道的英语中，句子的头应该比尾轻，比如这个常见句型“It is important to do sth”。所以，我们就这两点进行修改，我的建议是用“witness”这个动词，它作动词时，意思是“见证”，用在这里，化解了原句中的头重尾轻，同时也用一个很简单的单词“increase"来代替掉用的相当频繁的"more and more"。
下面大家来试试吧！
Economic development was very rapid in Shanghai in recent years.
答案：
Shanghai witnessed the rapid economic growth in recent years.