【推荐1】阅读下面材料，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

I haven't seen Mr Jenkins since I left school, but I often think about him. I wasn't very good     1    most school subjects before I met Mr Jenkins. I suppose I was a bit lazy, especially in maths. The only thing I can remember from school maths is    2    the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees! But when I was 15 and went into Mr Jenkins' class, I really became    3    (interest) in a subject for the first time.

Before Mr Jenkins taught me, science had    4    (simple) been a subject full of strange words to me. I had no idea what hydrogen was, and I didn't really want to know, either I found it all so    5    (bore) and difficult. But Mr Jenkins made everything interesting. He used to explain things which seemed difficult with lots of practical    6    (example) and in simple language. One day, he took us outside and we    7    (build) a rocket! I remember that he let me pour some fuel into the rocket, and then another student lit    8    match to set it off. It was great fun.

I know that I wasn’t a    9    (will) student, but I wasn't slow to learn new things, The problems was that I lacked    10    (confident) confident in myself. Mr. Jenkins made me feel that I had my own strengths.

【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。

Sally is a good student, who does well in all her     1     (subject), you must wonder how she can study so well. Let me tell you something about her good study habits.

First, Sally spends two hours     2     (finish) her homework after school every day, and she always studies by     3     (she) from seven to nine on schedule. Sally is a very determined (意志坚定的) girl, so she can     4     (stop) by nothing from doing that. Second, if Sally wants to start studying, she will put everything     5     has nothing to do with her studying aside, like the cell phone. And     6     (actual) there are only books left on her desk. Third, Sally never leaves her problems next day. When she meets some difficult questions that she has trouble working out, she will turn     7     others for help. She can’t wait     8     (solve) them next day.

What do you think of Sally’s study habits? You can have     9     try. Sally     10     (make) great success since she entered high school, therefore, I hope you will also make a lot of progress in your study with the help of these hints.

【推荐3】在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

We should try our best     1    (realize)our goals even though there       2    (be)little hope. The efforts seems to be the lights in the darkness.

I used to be a shy girl in my primary school. I was weak in English at that time, especially for speaking English. So I was afraid to answer the teacher’s questions during English classes. After I       3    (enter)my dream middle school, something changed. I studied hard in class and practiced by watching English films and listening to English songs in my free time. Little       4     little, I found     5     more and more interesting to learn English. I could even talk with my classmates fluently in English and I was not shy any more. At last, I got high grades in English and I had     6    (confident)to do it better in the future.

【推荐1】We think that life in Chinese high school is an adventure in which we have to survive mountains of homework and all kinds of exams. Yet would it be    1    (surprise) if I tell you that high school life in the US is almost as stressful and demanding    2    it is in China?
In US high school, everything must    3    (record) into your studying document, including your grades on quizzes, tests and final examinations. Failing    4    (turn) in your homework on time will directly affect your grade for a certain course. Perhaps completely different from    5    we used to think of the US high school students, they pay great attention to    6    (they) academic performance in order that they can get into a distinguished university.
Like university students, US high school students have the    7    (free) to choose the courses that most interest them. Even a ninth-grader can sit     8     the same classroom as 12th-graders. But this also     9     (mean) he or she has to work very hard, because the teacher will not treat him or her    10    (different).