【推荐1】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. dignity B. favored C. endanger D. striking E. peered F. distinctive G. adapted H. wonder I. commitment J. expense K. share

1. Tan Dun ______ music from the original Kun opera and added his own work to these traditional pieces.
2. For a long time, my mother had not understood my ______ to the struggle.
3. It’s difficult to preserve your ______ when you have no job and no home.
4. In South Africa, it is hard for a man to ignore the needs of the people, even at the ______ of his own family.
5. In the 1800s, Beijing opera slowly replaced Kun opera as the ______ form of opera.
6. Families worry that sending children away to study in higher education could ______ the Yupik language and culture.
7. When one doesn’t see one’s family for many years at a time, the transformation can be ______.
8. The ______ features of Kun opera are spoken story-telling, singing and dancing, and each character has their own particular style of movement on stage.
9. When a whale is killed, the houses and school empty as everyone races to the beach to take a ______ of the meat.
10. They ______ out the window fearfully at the ivy vine, and then looked at each other for a moment without speaking.

【推荐2】选词填空

defeat, botanical, most, science, apparently, academic, obtain, objective, distinct, acknowledge, conclude, passion

1. The students return in September for the start of the new ______ year.
2. You should set goals or ______ that can be reached.
3. They took a very ______ approach to management.
4. Oil prices fell this week to their lowest level in fourteen months, ______ because of over-production.
5. Several new ______ species have been discovered in the last year.
6. Her own twelve pictures sold fairly well, ______ to friends and family.
7. The leaning needs of he two groups are quite ______ from each other.
8. In the second experiment they ______ a very clear result.
9. He is widely ______ as the best player in the world.
10. In the war, they narrowly avoided ______ by the enemy.

【推荐2】选用方框内合适的单词，并用其正确形式填空。请在答题卡指定区域作答。

approach     announce     embarrass       keep in mind     confirm keep track of     chat     have access to     update     generous

1. My kids spend hours ______________ on the phone with their friends.
2. I don’t like making speeches in public; it is so ______________.
3. The Internet is the biggest source of information in the world, and you can ______________ it through a computer.
4. As the great day ______________, she grew more and more nervous.
5. We did several experiments, trying to ______________ our predictions.
6. We do not have the resources to ______________ our computer software.
7. He was always ______________ in sharing his enormous knowledge.
8. ______________ all the progress you have made by keeping a journal of all your successes.
9. You should ______________ those important rules in the international trade.
10. It is wise to ______________ the news to the public.