【推荐2】阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

While some athletes at the Tokyo Games shot to popularity by winning medals, others became stars on social media. Many competitors using services like TikTok and Instagram have     1     (great) expanded their fan base.

One athlete who is getting popular is not even an Olympian yet. Silvia Solymosyova is a swimmer     2     Slovakia, a small country. She has published videos on TikTok in English in an effort to get attention in the U.S. So far she     3     (gain) over 1 million followers, mostly with videos     4     (show) her dancing underwater.

Jagger Eaton is a young American skateboarder. He has been competing since he was a boy. He is now 20. Eaton, who won     5     bronze medal in Tokyo, said he is “stoked” that so many people are now     6     (interest) in skateboarding. He has about 500,000 followers between Instagram and TikTok.

Another American athlete, Erik Shoji, is getting attention for his videos     7     show off the food and atmosphere inside the Olympic village in Tokyo. Shoji is an American volleyball player. He said the goal of his videos     8     (be) to share his own experiences in the athlete’s village and     9     (help) fans to learn more about the U.S.     10     (men) volleyball team.

【推荐1】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Dashrath Manjhi was from village Gehlour in Gaya District, one of the poorest districts of the western Indian. Poor and illiterate, he worked as farm labour on fields that     1    (lie) on the other side of the hill. The villagers had to climb up the hill with its narrow and difficult pass     2    (buy) even the smallest thing. Passing around it took hours.

One day, Manjhi’s wife slipped on the hill and had her ankle     3    (break) as she was bringing him lunch. Angrily, Manjhi decided to cut the hill down to the size.     4    (lack) money, he sold off his goats to buy a hammer, chisel and rope. He even shifted his hut closer to the hill     5    he could work day and night. Manjhi     6    (call) a madman, but he didn’t care. He was unstoppable.

Manjhi started his work more than 40 years ago. As time     7    (pass), the villagers noticed the hill was a bit more climber-friendly. It was no longer so steep. Manjhi’s hammer and chisel had seen to it that a flat stretch had made its appearance.

By the early 1980s, a three-kilometre road     8    (make) out of the rock,     9    was wide enough for even vehicles to pass through. A 50-kilometre journey to     10    (near) block headquarters of Wazirganj had now shrunk to a 10-kilometre journey!

【推荐3】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的单词（仅限一个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式（可以多个）。

People     1     a physical disability which makes it difficult for them to live a normal life     2     (suffer) a lot. Some of them give in     3     the fate while others try to live their lives to the fullest. Yesterday, I happened     4     (read) a story about a disabled boy    5     name is Marty. He has a muscle disease and because of this disease, he is very weak. It is impossible for him to reach a book     6       (lay) higher than his height and he often falls down when walking on a flat and wide road. Unfortunately, so far no effective cure for his muscle disease     7     (find). Marty doesn’t know     8     the future holds for him. However, he is very brave. He works very hard to live as normal a life as his healthy     9     (classmate) do. If he had a chance to say one thing to other disabled children, it would be this: being disabled doesn’t mean your life is not     10     (satisfy).