【推荐1】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Kite flying dated from China and became popular around the country. With a long history, it is considered as the     1    (early) aircraft we have ever know. Kites were used for military(军事的) purposes in the very beginning, such as measurement and signaling. Later kite flying gradually became     2     outdoor activity for both recreation and art.

In the past, people fastened bamboo – made whistles onto a kite. While     3    (fly) through the wind, it produced sound like the music produced by gu – zheng,     4     is a traditional Chinese musical instrument. Therefore, kite has     5    (it) modern name as fengzheng.

In the 7th century, kite     6    (introduce) to neighboring countries including Korea and Japan. Around the 13th century, Marco Polo introduced it to Europe and Arab countries.

Around the Qingming Festival,     7    (usual) on early April, many people fly kites in public squares. The sky is dotted with kites of different     8    (design), such as dancing butterflies, bounding dragons, and swimming fish. When people look at those kites, they feel as if they are flying away with the kites     9    (escape) the noisy world and step into the nature with their body and soul. It is a way for people to pray for blessings and good luck.

The traditional Chinese kite expresses     10    (harmonious) between human and nature, a long – held belief treasured by the Chinese people.

【推荐2】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。注意：请将答案写到答题卷上，写在试卷上答案无效。
Ask three people to look out of the same window at a busy street corner and tell you what they see.     1    (chance) are that you will receive three different answers. Each person sees the same scene, but each perceives something different about     2    .
Perceiving goes on in our minds. Of     3    three people who look out of the window, one may say that he sees a policeman     4    (give) a motorist a ticket. Another may say that he sees rush-hour traffic jam at the intersection. The     5    (three) may tell you that he sees a woman trying to cross the street with four children. Perception is the mind’s    6    (interpret) of what the senses — in this case our eyes — tell us.
Many psychologists today are working to try     7    (determine) just how a person experiences or perceives the world around. Using a scientific approach, these psychologists set up experiments in     8    they can control all of the factors.     9    measuring and charting the results of many experiments, they are trying to find out what makes different people perceive     10    (total) different things about the same scene.

【推荐3】阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写 1 个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Why is the Forbidden City called “purple forbidden city”? If you have visited it, you may find that the palace    1     (paint)   mainly   in   two   colors,   yellow   and   red.   Red,   the   color   of   fire,   shows   happiness   and    2     (succeed), while yellow, the color of the sun, was only used by the emperors, who were regarded as the Sons of Heaven. Ancient Chinese astronomers believed that Polaris (北极星), “Ziwei star”, was in the center of heaven and the heavenly emperor lived in the Ziwei Palace. So the palace for the emperor on Earth should be like the one in heaven. That is    3     “purple” is in the name.