【推荐2】完形填空
完形填空，阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
        When I was growing up my dad would often give me small tasks to finish to help out around the house. Some were easy but the three I remember the most were the three ____ of all. The first was helping to weed the four ____ we had. It was ____ work. I would rather ride my bike than crawl (爬行) in the dirt on my hands and knees ____ the thousands of weeds in our gardens. The second was piling firewood for ____ . It was tough work and I got more than my _____ of pieces. I would rather walk in the woods than piling it in rows. The third was ____ water from a mountain spring to our house ____ our well water had too much iron in it to ____ .
        Over the years, though, I learned to see the ____ in all the things my dad had made me do. Having fresh vegetables for dinner was a delight. ____ a cold glass of iced tea made from the mountain spring water was a pure ____. Standing by the wood stove on a snowy December day was a wonderful way to ____. I saw as well that all this work my dad had given me had ____ made me a better, stronger and more caring man. Most of all, I ____ that when I did my work with a(n) ____ heart, it didn’t feel like work at all .
        Over the years I have learned something else too. When we do the work for our Heavenly Father with a ____ spirit, it doesn’t feel like work, either. Every act of kindness, word of encouragement, and gift of love we share will only make our lives better, make our hearts happier, and bring out souls ____ to Heaven.
        I am so ____ to both my dad and my Father in Heaven. They showed me the ____ of work and more importantly they showed me the pricelessness of love.1.

A．simplest

B．toughest

C．strangest

D．wildest

2.

A．schools

B．companies

C．gardens

D．streets

3.

A．boring

B．exciting

C．interesting

D．relaxing

4.

A．controlling

B．keeping

C．pushing

D．pulling

5.

A．festival

B．winter

C．holiday

D．marriage

6.

A．share

B．charge

C．point

D．dream

7.

A．protecting

B．borrowing

C．carrying

D．conducing

8.

A．because

B．unless

C．although

D．but

9.

A．boil

B．match

C．get

D．drink

10.

A．requirements

B．attention

C．rewards

D．experience

11.

A．Designing

B．Enjoying

C．Performing

D．Developing

12.

A．desire

B．challenge

C．surprise

D．pleasure

13.

A．turn up

B．warm up

C．stay up

D．set up

14.

A．unluckily

B．immediately

C．gradually

D．temporarily

15.

A．remembered

B．ignored

C．regretted

D．realized

16.

A．honest

B．happy

C．brave

D．modest

17.

A．loving

B．complaining

C．hating

D．punishing

18.

A．closer

B．farther

C．politer

D．warmer

19.

A．kind

B．lucky

C．grateful

D．vital

20.

A．key

B．way

C．goal

D．value

【推荐3】It was years ago, but I still remember it like it was yesterday.I was driving my daughter to the nearest airport.It was a 3-hour round trip, so after ________ her off at the airport, my son and I stopped at a McDonald’s to have lunch.We found a free boot h and I went up to ________ our food.Working at the cash register was an old lady.Each person that came up to give their order was given a huge ________ of hers in return with a few kind words.When it was my ________ to order, I smiled back and told her that she had the sweetest smile I’d ever seen.She ________, patted me on the hand and said, “No ________ charge, Sweetie!”

When we drove back to ________ my daughter a few days later, we stopped at the McDonald’s again.I ________ for the lady but she was nowhere to be seen.Maybe she wasn’t working that day, or maybe she had moved on to ________ others with her smile somewhere else.Remembering our ________ encounter always brings a smile to my face.

It is ________ how we work so hard to make money to buy things, but the things we ________ the most can’t be bought.They are ________ given and joyfully received.Love, smiles, and joy are all free of charge.They are the ________ we give each other.May we always ________ and delight in them.

1.

A．taking

B．putting

C．getting

D．dropping

2.

A．pack

B．prepare

C．order

D．enjoy

3.

A．discount

B．treat

C．note

D．smile

4.

A．turn

B．honor

C．pleasure

D．duty

5.

A．bowed

B．laughed

C．greeted

D．froze

6.

A．flat

B．big

C．free

D．extra

7.

A．call on

B．cheer for

C．pick up

D．attend to

8.

A．cared

B．waited

C．sent

D．looked

9.

A．warm

B．require

C．test

D．persuade

10.

A．sudden

B．brief

C．personal

D．unusual

11.

A．fair

B．natural

C．funny

D．certain

12.

A．fear

B．trust

C．use

D．desire

13.

A．secretly

B．simply

C．freely

D．carefully

14.

A．memories

B．gifts

C．chances

D．hopes

15.

A．share

B．understand

C．accept

D．hide

【推荐1】Sarah, a Girl Guide (女童子军) from Wagga Wagga, dreams of being a medical scientist, inspired by Florence Nightingale’s ________ work in the field of nursing. “I want to make a positive ________ on the world by learning first aid to help people ________,” explains Sarah, who has a vision of seeing more girls in science.

Meanwhile, Olivia, from Coogee, has taken ________ from a famed Australian obstetrician (产科医师). “I want to be a biomedical engineer or something else in the medical field, to make money from some great inventions and then use that money to ________ houses to the homeless,” she says. “This is just like Catherine Hamlin, a gynaecologist, who used her wealth to ________ to the women of Ethiopia by providing them with more healthcare.”

Girl Guides Australia promotes the ________ of girls, whether they dream of working in forensic science or engineering, or ________ want to learn first aid. It also ________ a conference about what they could achieve, where some schoolmates who have gone on to success in STEM ________ a vital experience as members of Girl Guides.

Natasha Hendrick is principal geophysicist at Santos Ltd and a Rhodes Scholar. She said that her time as a Guide showed girls could do anything. She ________ for the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and donates her time to Women Who Code, ________ young women who want to succeed in the tech industry. “A great many activities I was ________ in as a Guide provided a safe, supportive space in which I learned to try new things, like effective communication skills, be brave, and grow,” says Natasha. “I became a young woman who ________ to be different through my choice of career. And today I can look back and say my Guiding experiences made me one of those sought-after scientists who are also skilled managers, ________ communicators and good leaders.”

1.

A．pioneering

B．tiring

C．demanding

D．exciting

2.

A．fortune

B．arrangement

C．effort

D．impact

3.

A．in debt

B．in total

C．in need

D．in brief

4.

A．appreciation

B．inspiration

C．construction

D．description

5.

A．mail

B．deliver

C．sell

D．offer

6.

A．look up

B．give back

C．give in

D．date back

7.

A．attitudes

B．jokes

C．wills

D．doubts

8.

A．simply

B．finally

C．extremely

D．initially

9.

A．canceled

B．organized

C．postponed

D．addressed

10.

A．released

B．argued

C．communicated

D．shared

11.

A．volunteers

B．signs

C．desires

D．competes

12.

A．stopping

B．entertaining

C．saving

D．directing

13.

A．uninterested

B．involved

C．limited

D．embarrassed

14.

A．planned

B．hated

C．dared

D．pretended

15.

A．effective

B．proud

C．common

D．sensitive

【推荐3】It was the start of my second year of university. After thinking for a long time about environmental and social issues, I decided to stop _______ meat and fish and become a vegetarian (素食者). Now, being a vegetarian in the UK is generally quite _______. Almost any place that serves food in Britain will have some kind of vegetarian choice on its _______. Sometimes it turns out to be a slightly _______ salad, but the large quantity (数量) of different foreign restaurants means there are many different choices on offer.

But two years later when I graduated from university and _______ to move to Spain, I suddenly realized that I might meet some _______! Considering that one of its most famous sports is about killing bulls, animals might not exactly seem like Spain’s main _______. I had been to Spain a few times before becoming veggie, and all I could remember now was meat, meat, meat.

As you can imagine, I was quite _______ about eating out in Spain. In some ways, I had a _______ to be. A large number of Spanish dishes are based around meat or seafood, the most ________ of course being ham and a rice dish with seafood. Vegetarianism is quite ________ in Spain and Southern Europe, and many older Spaniards have trouble understanding it.

At the beginning, ________ many unfamiliar food words that weren’t in my Spanish-English dictionary, it did feel very difficult. But as I began to ________ Spanish menus, a whole world of vegetarian and truly Spanish food ________itself up to me, and I don’t just mean vegetarian versions of usually meaty dishes. If you ________ there are more vegetarian treats, and many of them are a little more healthful than these potato-based delights.

1.

A．buying

B．cooking

C．tasting

D．eating

2.

A．easy

B．foolish

C．necessary

D．fair

3.

A．wall

B．menu

C．counter

D．table

4.

A．attractive

B．boring

C．delicious

D．unique

5.

A．refused

B．hesitated

C．traveled

D．decided

6.

A．problems

B．friends

C．tricks

D．dangers

7.

A．wealth

B．concern

C．challenge

D．threat

8.

A．glad

B．serious

C．curious

D．nervous

9.

A．reason

B．dream

C．duty

D．purpose

10.

A．expensive

B．famous

C．healthy

D．terrible

11.

A．universal

B．impossible

C．rare

D．mysterious

12.

A．facing

B．learning

C．reciting

D．calling

13.

A．pay attention to

B．get familiar with

C．think highly of

D．look up to

14.

A．opened

B．devoted

C．expanded

D．proved

15.

A．watch out

B．move off

C．set off

D．look around

【推荐1】-- “O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be understood, as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.”---

These are the_______that rest on my father’s tombstone. It has been forty years since a(n)_______in a Potash     ______took his life. Francis Lewis Yohnke was just 39.

On the night of October 16^th, 1968, around ten o'clock, my mother(who always called him Frank) _____what would be his last meal bacon and eggs.

That week he worked ______shift. He started at midnight.

Just after 2am, the sad news came that my father was _____injured in helping a fellow worker. Mother was   ______to meet at the hospital. Father ______at last.

Year later, as I was at the Woodlawn Cemetery where my father’s body _____, praying, a man from behind me said, “ _____did you know Frank?”

I quickly thought, ,knowing only the family, and his ______and co-workers called him “Frank”, that this man must have______him.

As I turned to face him, I replied, “He’s my father.”

This man said______, “I worked with your father for a short time-short over a year-but he made a(n) _____on my life. He was so strict, so demanding and yet so _____.” “You know, if he hadn’t ______another miner, But that was not Frank,” he said.

Almost four______later, and these words from a stranger, in the______, were surreal in a way. I’d heard______stories from family and from friends, but this… after all of that time …and there…_______!

1.

A．plans

B．thoughts

C．words

D．ideas

2.

A．earthquake

B．crash

C．flood

D．accident

3.

A．field

B．mine

C．street

D．river

4.

A．prepared

B．brought

C．bought

D．enjoyed

5.

A．morning

B．day

C．night

D．noon

6.

A．badly

B．slightly

C．completely

D．carelessly

7.

A．recommended

B．told

C．ordered

D．allowed

8.

A．survived

B．died

C．recovered

D．healed

9.

A．stays

B．grows

C．rests

D．locates

10.

A．How

B．When

C．Why

D．Where

11.

A．friends

B．wife

C．colleagues

D．parents

12.

A．seen

B．heard

C．recognized

D．known

13.

A．coldly

B．casually

C．confidently

D．painfully

14.

A．impression

B．impact

C．comment

D．joke

15.

A．amazing

B．touching

C．moving

D．giving

16.

A．deserted

B．concerned

C．criticized

D．helped

17.

A．decades

B．years

C．weeks

D．months

18.

A．factory

B．cemetery

C．hospital

D．tombstone

19.

A．negative

B．cemetery

C．exciting

D．wonderful

20.

A．miserable

B．suitable

C．beautiful

D．grateful

【推荐2】The room in the workhouse where the boys were fed was a large stone hall, and at one end the master and two women served the food. This ________ a bowl of thin soup three times a day, with a piece of bread on Sundays. The boys ate ________ and were always hungry. The bowls never needed ________. The boys polished them with their spoons until they ________. After three months of this slow starvation, one of the boys told the others that so hungry was he ________ one night he might eat the ________ sleeping next to him. He had a wild ________ eye, and the other boys ________ him. After a long ________, they decided that one of them should ask for more food after supper that evening, and Oliver was ________.

The evening arrived; the soup was served, and the bowls were ________ again in a few seconds. Oliver went up to the master, with his bowl in his hand. He felt very ________, but also ________ with hunger.

“Please, sir, I want some more.”

The master was a fat, healthy man, but he turned very pale. He looked at the little boy in front of him with ________. Nobody else spoke.

“What?” he asked at last, in a ________ voice.

“Please, sir,” replied Oliver, “I want some more.”

The master ________ him with the serving spoon, then seized Oliver’s arms and ________ for the beadle (执事). The beadle came quickly, heard the terrible news, and immediately ran to tell the board.

“He asked for me?” Mr Limbkins, the fattest board member, asked in ________. “Is this really true?”

_____, Oliver was led away to be locked up, and a(n) ________ of five pounds was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work.

1.

A．belonged to

B．accounted for

C．consisted of

D．turned to

2.

A．everything

B．anything

C．nothing

D．something

3.

A．cleaning

B．buying

C．changing

D．washing

4.

A．finished

B．shone

C．slept

D．starved

5.

A．that

B．until

C．when

D．before

6.

A．master

B．boy

C．bowls

D．spoons

7.

A．big

B．angry

C．hungry

D．bad

8.

A．believed

B．hated

C．feared

D．trusted

9.

A．quarrel

B．bargain

C．argument

D．discussion

10.

A．chosen

B．determined

C．elected

D．recognized

11.

A．available

B．empty

C．full

D．broken

12.

A．frightened

B．shy

C．brave

D．worried

13.

A．pleased

B．hopeful

C．exhausted

D．desperate

14.

A．amusement

B．amazement

C．intension

D．appreciation

15.

A．calm

B．clear

C．faint

D．cautious

16.

A．treated

B．greeted

C．hit

D．warned

17.

A．sent

B．shouted

C．asked

D．begged

18.

A．curiosity

B．frustration

C．sadness

D．horror

19.

A．Therefore

B．However

C．Besides

D．Eventually

20.

A．punishment

B．reward

C．award

D．praise