【推荐2】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.

Stella     1     (be) a senior three student in Mingqi High school. Last night, she     2     (have) her dinner when an unexpected guest     3     (knock) at the door. That was her classmate, Henry. He     4     (tell) Stella that she     5     (leave) her English textbook in the classroom. And he asked, “Can you help me with my English, Stella? It is the third time that I     6     (fail) in the English test. I     7    (feel) disappointed and sad. You       8     (be) good at English. So I believe my English     9     (be) improved if you       10     (agree) to help me.” “Thank you for bringing my English textbook to me. And, of course”, said Stela, “it’s my pleasure!”

【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。

Many   students   feared maths   subject,   and I   was among   them.   Once I failed     1     the mathematics, I was     2    (annoy), My friends started making fun of me. I was     3    (luck) that my mother was a maths teacher. She always helps me, but I didn’t take that seriously.

When my mother    4    (tell) that I didn’t pass the maths subject, she got shocked. But     5    (fortunate 幸运的), she didn’t shout at me. Instead, she gave me     6     inspirational speech.

Later on she started teaching me mathematics. She encouraged me     7    (play) with maths and really I enjoyed a lot, from which maths became my favourite subject. Now I also teach those friends who really fear maths. They think that maths subjects is very difficult and it has lots of formula( 公 式 ) to remember. But my mother taught me maths in an     8    (interest) way. I used that technique to solve problems. From this my     9    (confident) has increased and I’m happy that most difficult subject has become a game for me.

Becoming an engineer     10     uses scientific knowledge to solve problems is my dream. It may support me through hardships and setbacks.

【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。

Each time I take the underground I find myself     1     (surround) by dozens of passengers playing smartphones. They almost won’t even give a glance at the outside world. You may think it is normal to play smartphones     2     (kill) time. What’s worse, when I talk with some of my     3     (friend), they talk as playing, which is really an annoyance.

I really miss the old days when I chatted with some passengers on the train. Now things are     4     (difference). Everyone just concentrates     5     their smartphones. When talking with them, it seems that you are disturbing their playing smartphones. I could not just blame them for I am moving to be one like them. Sometimes I just feel we     6     (large) ignore our neighbors and want to keep in touch with distant strangers through the Internet. We care about the things far away     7     pay no attention to the needs nearby.     8     ridiculous the situation is! In a way we     9     (control) by smartphones. Are you     10     (experience) the same situation like me? Do you have any ways to avoid that?

【推荐3】Directions: Read the text below. Use the word given in the brackets to form a word that fits in the space.

It was a rainy morning two years ago. Shirley Huxham was cycling     1    (gentle) downhill. As she waved to a friend, her bike slid uncontrollably on the wet road, throwing her to the ground. “I’d never even thought of buying a helmet,” she says. For months she was partly paralysed (瘫痪) down her left side and still has     2    (healthy) problems today.

Some might think that Shirley was just unlucky. How     3    (danger) can it be to fall from a bicycle? In fact, each year on Britain’s roads more than 200 people are killed and at least 4,000 seriously injured on bicycles. But these numbers don’t tell the whole story: the majority of the     4    (die) and injured were not wearing helmets.

A study of bicycle accidents in the US found that helmets could     5    (reduction) the risk of serious head injury by 85 percent. Yet it is estimated that in Britain, no more than five percent of bicycle     6    (ride) wear helmets. Why don’t more cyclists wear     7     (they)?

People think that helmets look foolish, that they’re     8    (convenient), and that accidents only happen to other people.

One of the wrong ideas bicyclists have is that lower speeds can put them at     9    (little) risk than motorcyclists, who are legally obliged to wear helmets. In fact, according to a British report, a higher percentage of bicyclists than motorcyclists suffer head injuries. And their injuries can be just as severe.

Helmets, however, can make a big     10    (different). Shirley wasn’t just unlucky. If she had worn a helmet, she wouldn’t have spent months in hospital. Why take the risk?