【推荐3】Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. advocates       B. inevitable       C. invest       D. movement       E. placed       F. pointless G. present       H. pressure       I. progress       J. recruiting       K. through

Bright Future for Girls

Worldwide, 130 million girls are out of school. At the United Nations two years ago, leaders promised to ensure every girl receives 12 years of education by 2030, but contributions from donor countries have declined. Some days are hard—but I refuse to believe the world will always be as it is;     1     is happening.

At the Malala Fund, we are investing in educators in developing countries. These     2     understand the challenges girls face in their communities—child marriage, poverty, conflicts and wars—and are best     3     to develop solutions. In Afghanistan, they are     4     female teachers to work in rural schools. In Nigeria, they are running clubs to help girls resist family     5     to drop out and marry as young as 13 years old. In Lebanon, they are developing e-learning programs to teach STEM skills to Syrian refugee girls. I believe we can see every girl in school in my lifetime.

I believe in girls like Najlaa, who are leading the fight for themselves and their sisters. I believe in the millions of people who support our     6     . Earliest this year, someone asked me, “After everything you've been     7     and everything you've seen, how do you keep yourself from being hopeless?” After talking for a moment about all the things to be grateful for in my own life, I said, “I think it's     8     to be hopeless. If you are hopeless, you waste your     9     and your future.” If we want a brighter future—for them and for ourselves—we must     10     in girls today.

【推荐1】Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. consequently     B. exception     C. fixed     D. grab     E. inevitably     F. long G. parting     H. senior     I. sleepy     J. stretch     K. stuffed

Trips to my hometown of Boyertown in eastern Pennsylvania usually involve any or all of the following: really good hotdogs, ring sausage and perhaps, as a(n)     1     gift, chocolate the size of a football.

These are the tastes of my hometown, the foods that were part of my early childhood which later became the foods I     2     for whenever I go back to visit. They connect me to another time in my life, bringing back memories of whom I was with and what I was doing when eating it.

A recent trip back was no     3    . This time, however, I chose something I had not had in more than 25 years. There is a place in town called “The Grill Shop” that serves only breakfast and lunch. It has been around for as long as I can remember. It is the size of a shoebox (小平房), with five stools at the counter and a couple of booths along the wall. A flat-top grill is     4     into the front of the space and faces the street.

From that grill come the tastiest hotdogs, which were topped with chili, onions and mustard. They come wrapped in white paper and     5     into brown paper bags, the sturdiness (牢固) of which gets tested as the chili and mustard     6     seep out (渗出) before you can finish them.

It is the best $1.75 you will ever spend. I got two, because one is a lonely number. One bite in and I was ten years old again, going there with my grandmother during summer vacations. We would get hotdogs to go and take them back to her kitchen. My grandfather would sometimes come home for lunch.

Or, we would stay there if we were lucky enough to     7     a booth. A short lunch would     8     into an hour, since my grandmother knew almost everyone in town.

Mostly,     9     Boyertown looks much like it did when I lived there. I took a walk past my old house, which looks the same, although the abandoned factory had been replaced by a(n)     10     living facility and parking lots. The Grill Shop survives, however, and for that I am thankful.

【推荐2】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. profound               B. carve               C. employed             D. acquired E. recited                  F. poet                 G. compose               H. national I. critic                      J. experiments       K. achievements

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco and spent his early childhood in the Far West. At the death of his father, when Frost was eleven, the family moved to Salem, New Hampshire. After graduating from high school as a class     1    in 1892, Frost entered Dartmouth College but soon left to work at odd jobs. In 1897 he tried college again—Harvard University —but he left at the end of two years, having     2    an enduring dislike for academics.

For the next twelve years Frost supported himself by teaching and farming while continuing to     3    his poems. In 1911 he decided to     4    out a place for him in literary circle. Leaving New Hampshire, he sailed for England and soon found a publisher in London, where his first book, A Boy’s Will (1913) brought him to the attention of influential literary giants, among whom the American       5    Ezra Pound praised Frost as a     6    poet.

Following the publication of the second volume of his poems, North of Boston (1914), Frost returned home, determined to win recognition in his native land. He worked hard and made great     7    . His fame grew with the appearance of a succession of books throughout the United States.

Frost had rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries, choosing instead “the old-fashioned way to be new”. He     8     the plain speech of rural New Englanders and preferred the short, traditional forms of lyric and narrative.

By the end of his life, he had become a     9    poet, who was honored with degrees from forty-four colleges and universities and won four Pulitzer Prizes. The United States Senate passed resolutions honoring his birthdays, and when he was eighty-seven, he     10     his poetry at the inauguration of the former President John F. Kennedy.

【推荐3】Complete the paragraph with the correct form of the expressions.

be wired up	go cold turkey	social networking site
constant flow	drop social networking	in spirit

At the moment I am trying to     1    on using my mobile phone and computer but it is so difficult. I     2     most of the day. I can hear the     3    of alerts from my     4     . If I can see pictures of friends at parties and on social occasions, I feel like I’m at least there     5    . I think young people’s brains are hard-wired now to expect to be connected to the Internet. Wish me luck as I try to     6     for one week!