【推荐1】Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important _______: giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you     _______money.

This is how I _______with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store     _______to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the _______. If an accident takes place, the _______of which I think the local police could use, I _______him up and tell him about it, though I am not in _______here. One discovery I made about this world is to give _______getting something back, though the_______often comes in an unexpected form.

One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important________letter to my home, though it was ________to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of__________.More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was________. I was told at the window that there were_______boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long ________list . As I was about to ________, the postmaster appeared in the________. “Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home” I said it was. “Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office ________we make one for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get _______but complaints(投诉).”

1.

A．decision

B．research

C．speech

D．discovery

2.

A．earn

B．lack

C．spend

D．steal

3.

A．experienced

B．connected

C．combined

D．agreed

4.

A．happens

B．flashes

C．sticks

D．leads

5.

A．postmaster

B．headmaster

C．storekeeper

D．policeman

6.

A．story

B．damage

C．challenge

D．material

7.

A．call

B．hold

C．break

D．pick

8.

A．need

B．trouble

C．common

D．charge

9.

A．within

B．without

C．for

D．before

10.

A．process

B．goal

C．return

D．concern

11.

A．curious

B．immediate

C．special

D．heavy

12.

A．realized

B．addressed

C．forgotten

D．brought

13.

A．invitation

B．apology

C．instruction

D．appreciation

14.

A．dealing

B．providing

C．operating

D．starting

15.

A．enough

B．some

C．no

D．more

16.

A．admitting

B．relating

C．examining

D．waiting

17.

A．leave

B．shout

C．guess

D．conduct

18.

A．window

B．doorway

C．library

D．yard

19.

A．in case

B．now that

C．even if

D．as if

20.

A．anything

B．everything

C．nothing

D．something

【推荐2】A few years ago, I went through a period of depression. It was so severe that life didn’t seem worth_______. It was like permanent winter, so cold that the sun would never_______.

Then I saw snowdrops (雪花莲) pushing through the freezing,   iron-hard_______.   I looked at them every day until I felt that if they could come back to life, then so could_______. Those green shoots gave me_______in a way that nothing else had.

As spring came, I started to put in more and more plants, until the garden was brilliant with_______. I could spend hours _______ in gardening. Life was growing through my hands: gentle, peaceful, but, above all,_______. If I gave love, it was_______, a hundred times.

The   form of depressive illness I have is biological. It has________ generations of my   family and follows no rules nor reason. I can be________ when the sun is shining or when I am with loving friends. Of course, fresh air and exercise help to________ the depression, but for me ________ is more than that. It ________   strength as well as hope. I often stands in the garden before a tall tree, huge and strong. It lives through freezing temperatures and strong winds. It ________ but never breaks. And so I learn that we may be battled and injured, but we should   never give up.

1.

A．making

B．living

C．wasting

D．losing

2.

A．set

B．break

C．shine

D．explode

3.

A．snow

B．wood

C．ground

D．water

4.

A．I

B．mine

C．winter

D．spring

5.

A．boredom

B．love

C．money

D．hope

6.

A．light

B．water

C．diamond

D．color

7.

A．locked

B．lacking

C．lost

D．hidden

8.

A．optimistic

B．pessimistic

C．lovely

D．delicate

9.

A．replied

B．returned

C．repeated

D．repaired

10.

A．affected

B．puzzled

C．wounded

D．damaged

11.

A．moved

B．depressed

C．delighted

D．satisfied

12.

A．replace

B．cure

C．treat

D．relieve

13.

A．exercise

B．relaxation

C．planting

D．gardening

14.

A．refers to

B．stands for

C．possesses

D．resembles

15.

A．bends

B．dries

C．falls

D．grows

【推荐3】Entering the drama room I am immediately surrounded by the familiar sights, smells and sounds. Streaks（条纹，线条） of light cast by the blinds of the tall _______ send shafts（杆状物） of light through the dusty air. I take a _______ and the concrete and paint ________ tickle my nose. I _______ everything about this room.
Some of the ______ times of my life have been spent here. It’s ironic（讽刺的）, but the ______ is the only place where I feel that I don’t have to ______ to be someone I’m not. Like many teenagers, I almost ______ think that people are judging me, but when I act, that feeling disappears.   People only look at your _____ ability, not your clothing, money, choice of friends, or any of the other ways people are usually _______.
When I’m on stage, everything else vanishes（消失）. All the worries and ______ of the outside world are put on hold. Nervousness is still present, ______ it’s the excited and tingly kind, not the queasy（不稳定的） ______ of being different and alone.
I ______ love to work backstage and on lighting. I ______ you could find another girl who would work on a ladder ______ her elbows in cables and dust and love every second of it. It makes me unique and gives me a sense of _____ to know that I succeed in an area where _____ others—and virtually（事实上） no girls—do.
High school is a difficult atmosphere, to put it ______. Like others, I’m often insecure（不安的）, not ______ who I am or where I’m going in life. Wherever that may be, I will always have the confidence I get from theater.1.

A．doors

B．windows

C．roofs

D．walls

2.

A．last look

B．long walk

C．short breath

D．deep breath

3.

A．smells

B．tastes

C．sounds

D．looks

4.

A．hate

B．love

C．miss

D．forget

5.

A．worst

B．tiring

C．best

D．better

6.

A．room

B．office

C．building

D．stage

7.

A．pretend

B．expect

C．want

D．decide

8.

A．hardly

B．seriously

C．always

D．happily

9.

A．acting

B．speaking

C．moving

D．repeating

10.

A．thought of

B．judged

C．taken care of

D．feeling

11.

A．happiness

B．anxieties

C．chances

D．pressures

12.

A．and

B．however

C．but

D．though

13.

A．feeling

B．idea

C．hope

D．fact

14.

A．seldom

B．almost

C．relatively

D．absolutely

15.

A．hope

B．doubt

C．think

D．suspect

16.

A．up for

B．out at

C．up to

D．down to

17.

A．pride

B．duty

C．humor

D．sight

18.

A．few

B．many

C．a few

D．some

19.

A．cruelly

B．tensely

C．friendly

D．mildly

20.

A．fond of

B．afraid for

C．sure of

D．interested in

【推荐2】Like many young people, Jessica wants to travel the globe. Unlike most of them, this 25-year-old is doing it _________. She and her husband have spent the last two years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore. It might sound like one long, expensive _________, but the couple has an unusual way to make their travel _________.

They’re part of a new form of the _________ economy: house sitters. Throughout their no-cost stays in _________ homes, they feed pets and water plants in the homeowner’s _________.

The travel is not all about sightseeing. The two travelers carefully _________ their trips, scheduling their days around the pets that are sometimes difficult to _________. But house sitting also offers a sense of _________ they can’t find in a hotel. “It’s like __________ at a friend’s house,” Jessica says.

The couple has a high __________ rate in getting accepted as house sitters as they always go beyond the homeowner’s __________. For Jessica, that means __________ plenty of pictures of happy pets, keeping the house clean and leaving a nice small gift before __________ the next house. “You want to make the homeowner feel that they made the right __________,” she says.

1.

A．long-distance

B．full-time

C．single-handed

D．online-based

2.

A．game

B．service

C．process

D．vacation

3.

A．safe

B．busy

C．helpful

D．affordable

4.

A．local

B．sharing

C．private

D．agricultural

5.

A．strangers’

B．parents’

C．partners’

D．neighbors’

6.

A．presence

B．defense

C．absence

D．honor

7.

A．plan

B．explain

C．compare

D．complete

8.

A．buy

B．transport

C．please

D．choose

9.

A．comfort

B．confusion

C．control

D．condition

10.

A．cooking

B．studying

C．waiting

D．staying

11.

A．survival

B．success

C．growth

D．gratitude

12.

A．salaries

B．abilities

C．understanding

D．expectations

13.

A．sending

B．donating

C．receiving

D．borrowing

14.

A．moving from

B．settling down

C．heading to

D．running into

15.

A．guess

B．decision

C．response

D．impression

【推荐3】The term ‘dark tourism’ is far newer than the practice, which long predates Pompeii’s emergence as a dark ________. Dr Philip Stone, perhaps the world’s leading academic expert on dark tourism, considers the Roman Coliseum to be one of the first dark tourist sites, where people travelled long distances to watch death as sport. Later, until the late 18^th century, the appeal was ________ still in central London, where people paid money to sit in grandstands to watch mass hangings. Dealers would sell pies at the ________, which was roughly where Marble Arch stands today.

It was only in 1996 that ‘dark tourism’ entered the scholarly vocabulary when two academics in Glasgow ________ it while looking at sites associated with the murder of John F. Kennedy. Those who study dark tourism identify plenty of ________ for the growing phenomenon, including raised awareness of it as a(n) ________ thing. Access to sites has also improved with the arrival of cheap ________ travel. It’s hard to imagine that the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum would now welcome more than two million visitors a year were it not for its ________ to Krakow’s international airport. Peter Hohenhaus, a widely travelled dark tourist based in Vienna, also ________ the broader rise in off-the-beaten track tourism, beyond the territory of popular guidebooks and TripAdvisor rankings. “A lot of people don’t want mainstream tourism and that often means engaging with places that have a more ________ history than, say, a Roman ruin,” he says. “You go to Sarajevo (萨拉热窝) and most people remember the war being in the news so it feels closer to one’s own life story.”

Auschwitz-Birkenau Marble Arch

Hohenhaus is also a fan of ‘beauty in ________’, the contemporary cultural movement in which urban ruins have become subject matter for expensive coffee-table books and a thousand Instagram accounts. The crossover (交叉风格) with death is clear. “I’ve always been drawn to ________ things, “the 54-year-old says. Nevertheless, like any tourism, dark tourism at its best is educational, the example of Grenfell Tower (many “tourists” flooded to a London tower block, destroyed by a fire in 2017 with 71 deaths) hints at the ________ felt at some sites. “I remember the Lonely Planet Bluelist book had a chapter about dark tourism a while ago and one of the ________ was ‘pay due respect’,” Hohenhaus says. “It’s big, it’s dramatic, it’s black and it’s a story you’ve followed in the news. I’ll be interested to see Grenfell Tower up close. I can see the attraction. But I would not stand in the street taking a selfie ________.”

1.

A．opportunity

B．secret

C．attraction

D．memory

2.

A．fancier

B．harsher

C．likelier

D．further

3.

A．site

B．relic

C．memorial

D．range

4.

A．assigned

B．charted

C．applied

D．processed

5.

A．motivations

B．obstacles

C．purposes

D．reasons

6.

A．identifiable

B．creative

C．unrecognizable

D．practical

7.

A．rail

B．coach

C．pedestrian

D．air

8.

A．shortcut

B．resemblance

C．nearness

D．relevance

9.

A．relates to

B．points to

C．signals to

D．translates to

10.

A．distant

B．ancient

C．recent

D．recorded

11.

A．disgust

B．decay

C．disbelief

D．doubt

12.

A．beautiful

B．contemporary

C．urban

D．ruined

13.

A．amazement

B．unease

C．pressure

D．panic

14.

A．limitations

B．obstacles

C．goals

D．rules

15.

A．embarrassedly

B．determinedly

C．necessarily

D．merrily

【推荐1】It’s a blessing to do somebody a favor, but sometimes it’s a blessing to let another person do something for you.

The notice was posted next to the tenants’ mailboxes in the apartment building I had just moved into. “A Mitzvah (善行) for Mrs. Green, ” it ________ , “ Sign up to drive Mrs. G in 3B home from her chemotherapy (化疗) treatments twice a month.”   Since I wasn’t a driver, I couldn’t add my name, but the word “mitzvah” was always ________ in my thoughts after I went upstairs. It’s a Hebrew word that means “to do a good deed”. But according to my grandmother, it also had another meaning. This was the one she was always ________ to me because she noticed that I thought it a ________ to let people do things for me.

One evening, snowflakes had been falling past my window for several hours when the time to leave for class came. I ________ to the bus stop, reaching it just as a bus went by. For an hour, I prayed ________ that a bus would come. Then I gave up. The wind at my back pushed me towards home. Even if I wanted to ask someone for a good deed, which I did not, there wasn’t a _________on the street. But as I pushed the door of my apartment ________, I found myself face to face a woman at the mailbox with ________in her hand. Obviously she had a car and was going out. In that split second, desperation overcame my pride and I blurted, “Could you possibly give me a lift ?” A strange look ________ her face and she agreed. She ________ me off where I had been heading.

Back home as I walked up the stairs, I met her again. “Good night, Mrs. Green. See you tomorrow,” a neighbor was saying. ________, I had asked a person who________ with cancer to give me a lift in a snowstorm. ________ went down and I stammered, “Please forgive me.”

She visited me later and said, “I used to do things for others but now everyone keeps doing things for me. It’s not that I don’t appreciate it, but I don’t have chances. Tonight before I went out to get my mail, I prayed for a chance to let me feel like ________ of the human race again. Then you came along…”

1.

A．read

B．wrote

C．posted

D．illustrated

2.

A．spilling

B．repeating

C．whispering

D．wandering

3.

A．trying out

B．setting out

C．pointing out

D．carrying out

4.

A．respect

B．puzzle

C．glory

D．shame

5.

A．rode

B．laboured

C．flew

D．rolled

6.

A．helplessly

B．patiently

C．desperately

D．hopelessly

7.

A．soul

B．target

C．being

D．conductor

8.

A．open

B．forward

C．ahead

D．back

9.

A．files

B．letters

C．keys

D．albums

10.

A．crossed

B．appeared

C．pressed

D．gathered

11.

A．threw

B．relieved

C．removed

D．dropped

12.

A．Grateful

B．Scared

C．Shocked

D．Horrible

13.

A．struggled

B．dealt

C．met

D．suffered

14.

A．Tiredness

B．Tears

C．Anxiety

D．Snow

15.

A．part

B．figure

C．role

D．spirit

【推荐2】The Keeper of the River

An old man had been working for many years for a town. His job was to clear away natural waste from the pool water in the hills, which made up the lovely river flowing through the town nearby. Quietly and_______, the old man guarded the hills, removed the leaves and branches, and cleaned up the dirt that would have _______ and polluted the fresh flow of water. The town soon became a popular attraction for tourists. Elegant swans (天鹅) floated along the clear river and the view was so beautiful_______words.

Years passed. One evening the town committee met. As they reviewed the budget, one man’s eye caught sight of the salary figure being paid to the seldom seen keeper of the river. He asked, “Who is the old man? Why do we continue to employ him? No one in town ever see him. For all we know, the strange keeper of the hills isn’t doing his job. His position isn’t necessary any longer. ” Then they voted to _______ the man.

For several weeks, nothing changed……

By early autumn, the trees began to _______their leaves. Small branches broke off and fell into the pools of the hills,_______the flow of the shining water. One afternoon, someone noticed a slight yellowish-brown color in the river. A few days later, the water was much_______. Within another week, an oily something covered some sections of the water along the banks, and a terrible _______ was soon sensed. Swans left, and so did the tourists. The only thing that was now visiting the village was disease and sickness.

Quickly, the embarrassed town committee called a special meeting. Realising their huge error in_______, they rehired the old keeper of the river again, and within a few weeks, the river began to clear up. Swans and tourists came back again and new life returned to the small town in the Alps.

Never ignore the seeming smallness of a task, job, or life. They may all make a________.

1.

A．regularly

B．suddenly

C．naturally

D．actually

2.

A．carried

B．poured

C．changed

D．blocked

3.

A．beyond

B．with

C．in

D．after

4.

A．find

B．fire

C．support

D．forget

5.

A．lose

B．miss

C．fall

D．grow

6.

A．pulling

B．speeding

C．slowing

D．pushing

7.

A．deeper

B．cooler

C．warmer

D．darker

8.

A．sound

B．smell

C．wave

D．taste

9.

A．arrangement

B．assignment

C．judgement

D．amusement

10.

A．suggestion

B．difference

C．progress

D．decision

【推荐3】I fell in love with a minister’s son when I turned twenty. He was not Chinese. When I found out that my parents had ______ the minister’s family for Christmas Eve dinner, I cried. What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas? What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American ______? What terrible disappointment would he feel upon seeing not a ______ turkey but Chinese food? On Christmas Eve I saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a (n) ______ menu. The kitchen was ______ with piles of raw and unusual food: a fish begging not to be thrown into a pan of hot oil, a bowl of soaking dried fungus (菌菇) back to life, a plate of squids (鱿鱼) whose backs ______ like bicycle tires.

And then they arrived—the minister’s family and all my relatives. Robert said hello, and I pretended he was not worthy of ______. Dinner ______ me deeper into despair. My relatives licked the ends of their chopsticks and ______ the table, dipping them into the plates of food ______ Robert and his family waited ______ for plates to be passed to them. My relatives ______ with pleasure when my mother brought out the whole steamed fish. Then my father pulled out the soft meat. “Amy, your favourite,” he said. I wanted to ______. I remained silent for long.

After everyone had gone, my mother said to me, “You want to be the same as American girls on the outside. But inside you must always be Chinese. You must be ______ you are different. Your only shame is to have shame.” It occurred to me that re-finding my Chinese ______ was always my cultural uniqueness.

1.

A．helped

B．invited

C．tracked

D．expected

2.

A．behaviour

B．secrets

C．recipes

D．manners

3.

A．fried

B．steamed

C．roasted

D．smelled

4.

A．strange

B．ordinary

C．absurd

D．graceful

5.

A．separated

B．loaded

C．provided

D．integrated

6.

A．escaped

B．appeared

C．charged

D．froze

7.

A．appearance

B．appreciation

C．cooperation

D．respect

8.

A．persuaded

B．put

C．freed

D．threw

9.

A．knocked on

B．reached across

C．came across

D．leaned on

10.

A．after

B．when

C．while

D．because

11.

A．calmly

B．casually

C．patiently

D．nervously

12.

A．cheered

B．jumped

C．selected

D．wrinkled

13.

A．struggle

B．disturb

C．continue

D．disappear

14.

A．proud

B．envious

C．pleased

D．relaxed

15.

A．efforts

B．wishes

C．roots

D．talents