【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。

Wi-Fi is a word which has its own little brother in the form of a complex password which, no matter how hard you try, you can never guess. Generally, it     1     (stick) to the inside windows of cafes and hotels as     2     extra way of attracting customers. Even on public transport and in shopping     3     (center), it’s becoming more common. Last summer, I     4     (spend) four months working in France, where the company I was working for put me up in a house     5     didn’t have Wi-Fi. I was looking forward to it. I soon discovered, however, that     6     (live) in a house without Wi-Fi was easier than I had expected before.     7     I couldn’t enjoy my usual web browsing (浏览) on BBC iplayer, social media site, and keeping up-to-date with the news, I could spend more time with my housemates. I read more, I cooked for my friends and I even tidied up     8     (often). I learned how to live without Wi-Fi. I found it was easier than I had imagined. My experience this summer made me     9     (reflect) on how much we do use Wi-Fi. It’s possible not to be so dependent     10     it. Try it and see.

Rise After Falling

A father was worried about his son,    1    was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So the father decided to call on a Buddhist monk(僧侣)    2    (train) his boy.

The Buddhist monk said to the boy’s father, “I insist that your son should be left 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    4    （late）, the boy’s father returned. The Buddhist monk arranged a boxing match between the boy and an    5     (experience) boxer. Each time the fighter struck the boy , he fell down, but       6    once the boy stood up; and each time a heavy blow knocked him down, the boy stood up again. After several times , the Buddhist monk asked, “    7    do you think of your child?”

“What a shame!” the boy’s father said, “I never thought he would be so    8    (easy) knocked down. I needn’t have him stay here any    9    (long)!

“I’m sorry that that’s all you see. Don’t you see that each time he falls down, he stands up again instead of    10    (cry) ?That’s the kind of courage you wanted him to have.

When Albert was five years old, his father gave him     1     compass. Albert was filled with wonder when he discovered that the compass needle always pointed in the same     2     (direct) ---the north. He asked his father and his uncle     3     caused the needle to move. Their     4     (answer) were difficult for Albert to understand. Yet he spent a lot of time     5     (think) about them. He said later that he felt something must     6     (hide) behind things.

Albert didn't like school. The German schools of that time were not pleasant. Students couldn't ask questions. Albert said he     7     (feel) as if he were in prison.

One day Albert told his uncle Jacob how much he hated school,     8     (especial) mathematics. His uncle told him to solve mathematical problems by pretending     9     (be) a policeman. ''You are looking     10     someone, '' he said, ''but you don't know who he is. Call him X. Find him by using your mathematical tools. ''

Albert learned to love mathematics. He was studying the complex mathematics of calculus while all his friends were still studying simple mathematics.

President Xi Jinping     1    (sign)a presidential order on Tuesday to award four people national medals and honorary titles for their outstanding contributions     2     fighting the COVID-19 pandemic(流行病). Zhong Nanshan, 84.     3     excellent disease expert, was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the highest national honor, for his outstanding work in fighting COVID-19 in China. Three others were also awarded the “People’s Hero” national honorary title for helping fight against the novel coronavirus(新冠病毒). They are Zhang Boli, a     4     (tradition) Chinese medicine expert; Zhang Dingyu, head of Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital; and Chen Wei, a medical scientist     5     made major achievements in COVID-19-related basic research.

Zhong also has long been devoted to the research, prevention and     6     (treat) of major infectious and chronic respiratory diseases(慢性呼吸病), and has a long record of     7     (achievement). He was a major figure in the fight against the severe acute respiratory syndrome(综合症状) outbreak in 2003 in China. Following the COVID-19 outbreak, the Chinese government encouraged the country     8    (contain) the disease in Wuhan. Hubei province, after the city was locked down in late January. More than 42,000 medical workers from across the country     9     (send) to Hubei to fight the disease. The pandemic has been     10    (effective) placed under control on the Chinese mainland since early March.

Using a     1     (low) temperature to draw out the extract, Tu Youyou found a substance that worked. After failing more than 190 times, the team     2     (final) succeeded in 1971. Tu Youyou and her team members even insisted     3     testing the medicine on themselves to make sure that it was safe. Later, the medicine was tested on malaria patients, most of     4     recovered. This medicine, which     5     (call) artemisinin, soon became a standard treatment for malaria.