【推荐1】阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

A few years ago, famous writer and editor Tom became very ill. His body ached and he felt constantly tired. It was difficult for him to even move around. His doctor told him that he would lose the     1    (able) to move and eventually die from the disease. He     2    (tell) he had only a 1 in 500 chance of survival.

Despite the diagnosis(诊断), Tom was determined to overcome     3     disease and survive. He was always getting help from medicine books and some doctors     4     gave the ideas of curing his disease. The ideas made Tom     5    (think) about the possible benefit of several positive     6    (emotion).

He decided     7    (concentrate) on positive emotions as a way to treat some of the symptoms of his disease. “Laugh therapy” became part of his treatment. He arranged time each day     8     watching comedy films, reading humorous books, and    9    (do) other activities that would draw out positive emotions. Within eight days of starting his ‘‘laugh therapy” program, his pain began to decrease and he was able to sleep more     10    (easy). He was able to return to work in a few months’ time and actually reached complete recovery after a few years.

【推荐2】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Foreign Accent Syndrome(综合症)

31-year-old Emily’s life changed greatly in January, when a mysterious condition left her unable to speak for two months. She     1     (complain) about headaches for two weeks before one day her colleagues then noticed that her speech had become slow and unclear, both indicators of a stroke.    2       she was rushed to the hospital, Emily had lost her ability to speak completely. After running some tests, doctors ruled out the stroke, instead     3     (blame) her voice loss on some sort of brain injury.

After spending three weeks in the hospital, Emily was still unable to speak and relied solely on basic sign language she had picked up at work and a text-to-speech app on her phone     4    (communicate). Encouraged by her doctor, Emily went on a vacation in Thailand. A few days into the vacation, she started to speak again.

How     5     (shock) it was when Emily originally noticed her Eastern European accents, but even more so when she noticed that sometimes her accent would change out of the blue, to Polish, Italian and even French. Although she doesn’t know the reason     6     may help explain her condition, she has noticed that it has something to do with how tired she is. In March of 2020, she was officially diagnosed with     7     was commonly called Foreign Accent Syndrome.

“I was so excited when my voice started coming back but now I don’t even recognize the voice that comes out of my mouth, it doesn’t sound     8     me,” Emily told the reporters.

Now her voice is back, but unfortunately she has to deal with discrimination(歧视) from people who think she is an immigrant, and has taken time off work because stress     9     only make her condition worse.

Emily’s case sounds shockingly similar to     10     of Michelle Myers, an Arizona woman who never traveled outside of the United States, but woke up to speaking in multiple accents-British, Irish and Australian- after experiencing severe headaches. She too was diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome.

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Around 74 % of adults globally are willing to get immunized    1     the coronavirus if a vaccine(疫苗) became available 一but that may not be enough to defeat the fast-spreading virus, according to a survey    2     (release) Tuesday.

A majority of respondents from all the    3     ( country) expressed their willingness    4     (get) a vaccine, the survey results showed. China was the most enthusiastic country with 97% of respondents    5     (indicate) they would like to be vaccinated,    6     Russia was the least willing with only 54% interested to do so, the survey found.

“It's a concern that roughly one quarter of people globally are not intending to get a vaccine," said    7     expert from the World Economic Forum.

Covid-19 is the formal name of the coronavirus disease, which    8     (infect) more than 25. 4million globally and killed over 850 , 500 so far ,according to data by Johns Hopkins University.

The most    9     (frequent) cited reason for not wanting a vaccine is concern about the side effects,according to the survey findings. Other factors mentioned by respondents include their belief that a vaccine may not be    10     (effect).

【推荐1】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world    1    (walk) out. A real friend is someone    2    support we can count on. A real friend is someone who sees    3    (we) true self, not just the face that we show to the world. Yet these days, the modern tools that keep us    4    (connect) are eating away at the meaning of friendship. We must be able to make many friends online,    5    these friends can be quite shallow.    6    (Society) media like blogs has come between us and the friends whom we love. Texting and messaging cannot take    7    place of face-to-face chatting. "Sharing" our experiences on these media is not enough    8    (express) the values which matter most to us. “    9    (like) our friends' photos online does not develop the connection which we share. To make friends a real part of our lives, we should put down our smart phones and meet them    10    person.

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The British sense of humor differs from other countries because it is     1     (general) more negative. When it comes to making the British laugh, there is nothing more     2     (effect) than a socially inappropriate joke.

Popular British comedy shows such as Fawlty Towers, Blackadder and the Office     3     （be）full of sarcasm（讽刺）, teasing and self-deprecation（自嘲）. It reflects the culture     4     fooling and complaining is part of everyday life.

While most British people don’t take these jokes too seriously, foreigners feel     5     (puzzle) about those jokes. A recent survey found that most foreigners     6     (visit) Britain found that the British are “too proud”,       7     (friend) and have almost no sense of humor.

Do foreigners not understand British humor or are the British just not so funny     8     they think they are? McKinstry holds the     9     (believe) that the British are funny. “Accusing the British     10     having no sense of humor is like telling Rolls-Royce that its cars are down-market.”