【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.

England became England, the land of English-speaking people, at the beginning of the Middle Ages.     1     that it had been the home of Iron Age Tribes known as Celts, and for a time, part of the Roman Empire. Then beginning in the 400s AD, tribes from the north, known as the angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes,     2     (move) in.

The most famous leader of this time period in England was Alfred the Great. Alfred lived in Wessex, the kingdom of the West Saxons, which     3     (locate) in the southern part of England. He was a good leader     4     made his kingdom stronger. He created a system of defenses (防御),     5     (call) burhs, across the country. He reorganized the army so that his men     6     have time to fight and time to farm. Alfred s efforts protected his people from the Vikings and allowed Wessex to grow. Eventually the rulers of Wessex would rule all of England.

Alfred also made other improvements. He made laws for his people. He encouraged learning and translated several important books     7     his Saxon language. This was     8     modern people think of as the start of the language we call English today.

Two important pieces of literature from that time period are the anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Beowulf, both     9     (write) in old English. Old English lasted through most of the Middle Ages. Middle English came in during the late Middle ages and modern english began about the time of the renaissance.

England and English got their names, not from the Saxons, but from one of the other tribes, and Angles. The original name of England must have been     10     like Angle-land (only in old English of course).

【推荐2】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。

For the past few years, several Internet buzzwords (流行语) have gone popular, “    1    (hero) in harm’s way”; “lying flat”, “nei juan”    2    (include). Once    3    ambassador to the United States told a personal story to explain why the government introduced a policy to address nei juan, or “involution”, a buzzword    4    (mean) irrational(非理性的) or involuntary competition, which makes people feel burned out when in most cases there’re few ones in particular    5    (competence).

“I still remember some 10 years ago, my weekends were spent    6    (rush) my kid from one training school to another, and the courses he took ranged from math to physics,” he said. And after a whole day of classes, a tutor came to his home in the evening. When the tutoring session finished, he himself still had to help his son    7    his composition homework.

Such a phenomenon is very common in our competitive society. Many parents are extremely afraid that their children will get off to a slow start, so they would rather do    8    they can to ensure that their children can have a good education, which    9    (avoid) results in a great variety of online or offline tutoring classes. What’s worse, it really discourages parents and children that the effort they have paid does little    10    (help) children win an edge over others.

【推荐2】Directions: 用动词的适当形式和恰当的冠词、连词、介词、代词或情态动词、形容词副词的比较级或最高级填空，使句子成立

Turning Pain into Music

        After     1     (diagnose) with a severe pain disease, Jake Smith from Colorado leaned on music to cope.
        The problem first started for Smith when he was a freshman in high school. He suffered a concussion(脑震荡)while playing basketball. The symptoms didn't seem to go away after several months.
        Doctors discovered a small fracture(裂缝)in Smith's skull that was causing the pressure and the headaches. The teenager had surgery to repair it, but when he woke up, the problem was much worse. For months, he was in near constant pain. ''It was the first time in my life that I     2     (experience) a pain severe enough to actually understand why people would kill themselves because of the pain.'' Smith said.
        Doctors eventually diagnosed him with Trigeminal Neuralgia(三叉神经痛), a disorder that causes severe pain in the face. T. N. ,     3     it's also called, gets worse over time and is incurable. Doctors call it suicide disease because they think it’s     4     (painful) thing a human can experience. And they estimate that 25 percent of people who have this disease end up killing     5    .
          Facing this awful reality, Smith turned to something he'd known since he was five years old - playing the piano. When he was in too much pain to sleep, he would be in the basement on his keyboard playing all night long.
          The keys wouldn’t take the pain away, but the notes would make it more bearable.
          While dealing with the immense pain, the then-18-year-old wrote his first album, Loreto. He published all 17 songs on his website, free for all, aiming to offer some comfort to people also     6     (go) through pain.
        The idea prompted Smith to start song dedications(为他人写歌). He would take request within online groups for people suffering from T. N. or other pain disorders and write     7     (personalize) melodies(旋律)for them.     8     his won suffering, he composed songs like ''Ad Defeats Despair, '' ''Maiji's Waterfall'' and ''Marsha's Snowy Mountain, '' sometimes based one person's requested peaceful place.
          ''A lot of people say that when I write them a song and they listen to it, their pain is a lessened ... So, I guess that's     9     I keep doing it. '' he said.
          The 20-year-old has so far published over 100 songs on his website. His efforts     10     (help) people with T. N. have expanded to include other pain diseases, as well as cancer.

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When I was in college, a white cat often showed up on our campus. It was clear     1     he was a stray (流浪的) cat because he looked thin and weak. Students would play with him after class and feed him all kinds of food. The school didn’t say anything about the cat for     2     long time.

But one day, we     3     (tell) that one of our fellow students had an infectious disease and that the cat was     4     (possible) the source. After that, we were not allowed to touch any stray     5     (animal) on campus. The school started to make efforts to keep animals     6     campus as well.

Since we were not allowed to feed the white cat, it was hard for him to find food on the street. He     7     (become) weak and skinny. But while the rest of us ignored the cat, a security guard at our school decided to take on the     8     (responsible) of caring for him. He took the cat to a vet for a health check. He then went to a nearby supermarket and bought food for the cat, as well as a small bed for him to sleep in. He made sure the cat was healthy and     9     (comfort).

It might seem like a small effort to some people.     10     this man risked his job - his only source of income - just to feed a tiny cat who no one else cared for. It was a very heartwarming thing to see.