【推荐1】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

A loyal Liverpool Football Club fan is always making sure to cheer on his beloved team whenever they play and thanks    1     a letter from his loving older brother, the team was recently able to return the favor.

Ian, a Liverpool City native,     2    hoped his hometown soccer team would do something special for his brother David,     3    (write) a letter to the club about David’s condition. Since David was starved of oxygen as an infant, he developed differently than other kids. Though David struggled    4    (academic), his enduring loyalty to Liverpool FC never left him, and he is well known in the community as being a great kid and a passionate fan.

David is a season ticket holder who       5    (try) to go and see Liverpool play as many times as he can. He could never have expected that one of the     6    (great )members of the team would go to see him while he was at work.

Liverpool FC defender Virgil Van Dijk,     7    (consider)to be the best defender and one of the best players in the world, visited David’s place of work to give him the surprise of a lifetime:     8     trip to Liverpool FC’s training ground to meet the team.

NOT only that, Van Dijk presented David with    9    (ticket )for all the rest of the game to make sure they had his support from the stands for every one of the 25    10    remain) games this season.

【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。

Music is everywhere nowadays. Music plays     1     important part in daily life and there are different     2     (type) of music in the world, such as Blues, Black music, Rock&Roll, Dance music of Punks, Disco, Jazz, Classical music, Rap, Pop-music and so on.

Music is absolutely useful in many fields. It     3     (use) in advertising, radios, TV, films and the supermarkets     4     people are always attracted by the sweet-sounding music. So, you can see that the companies take advantage     5     music to make more money.

Why do so many people enjoy music? In my opinion, we     6     (definite) prefer expressing through music, so we can share many feelings with other people. Music is one of the most     7     (power) things in our life. When we are tired after work or when we are nervous, listening to music makes us feel more     8     (relax) and better. Listening to music     9     (help) us face the difficulties we meet in     10     (we) life and makes us forget some problems. Besides, we can learn more about the cultures of different countries and then learn about the world better.

【推荐3】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

I’m here today to share a good lesson with you. It is a true story about a student,    1     studied in Germany.

After years of hard work, this student graduated with amazing    2    (achieve). Everyone was sure that he was going to get a good job easily and have a bright future. But to his surprise, he was not even given the chance for     3    interview! The third time he    4     (refuse), he couldn’t help     5    (telephone) the company to ask why they didn’t want him. The answer was simple. “We don’t offer jobs to dishonest people in Germany.”

You might wonder what was wrong. The truth is, shortly after he    6    (arrive) in Germany, this clever student found that it was easy     7     (avoid) buying subway tickets in this country. So in order to save money, he often went in the subway    8    a ticket. As a result, he had been caught many times.

From this story, we learn that we may get short-term benefits in dishonest ways,    9    the truth will come out sooner or later and the cost is high. So remember: honesty is the     10    (good) policy.

【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 father was worried about his son,     1     was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So his father decided to call on a Buddhist monk（禅师）to train his boy.

The Buddhist monk said     2     the boy's father, "You should leave your son alone here. I'll make him into a real man within three months.     3     , you can't come to see him during this period. "

Three months later, the boy's father returned. The Buddhist monk arranged a boxing match between the boy and an     4     （experience）boxer（拳击手）. Each time the fighter struck the boy, he fell down, but at once the boy stood up then he     5     （knock）down and the boy stood up again. Several times later, the Buddhist monk asked, "What do you think of your child? " "What     6     shame! " the boy's father said, "I never thought he would be so     7     （easy）knocked down. I needn't have him left her     8     longer. "

"I am sorry that is all you see. Don't you see that each time he falls down, he stands up again instead of     9     （cry）? That's the kind of courage you wanted him     10     （have）. "

【推荐2】Ever thought about running a lemonade stand to make money? Sixth-grader Jamaria Crump has. She has been very     1    (success) in it, too. It took the 11-year-old one year to build her lemonade stand to earn money for those in need.
Her business, LemonTopia, is a hil, which her teacher said was surprising. She was praised for it. She makes pies, cakes and cookies besides lemonade.
Jamiaria     2    (build) Lemon Topia herself with     3     help of her mother. “I m a teacher and had no time to help her at first. So she begged for a lemonade stand for a year or two before I let her do it," said Jasmine Hall, Jamaria's mother.
Jamaria's school made an     4    (announce) that it would hold a haking sale in 2017,     5     was the perfect chance to try out Jamaria's plan for a lemonade stand. After the baking sale, she kept selling at school and community events , Now she has her own business at a street market.
Hall says Jamaria does not like the cleaning up. "She is made     6    (wash) all of her own dishes. I try to persuade her to do that     7    (constant)," Hall said.
The lemonade business can have     8    (it) ups and downs. I'm very proud of her for sticking with it ,”said Hall. She wondered if Jamaria would get bored and stop. But that has not happened.
In fact, Jamaria wishes to study in Paris and considers     9    ( become) a dessert cook. For now, she'll bake and sell her goods. She is turning Lemon I opia     10     a strong starling point for a sweet future to help others.