【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。

A 30-year-old man was finally rescued from the Alaskan wilderness after his cabin（小木屋）burned down,     1     (leave) him trapped in the snow for almost three weeks.

Tyson Steele had been living alone     2     several months in a small house in Skwentna,     3     town located 70 miles northwest of Anchorage. He had been burning a fire in     4     (he) woodstove back in December when a piece of flaming cardboard     5     (fly) up his fireplace chimney and landed on his roof,     6     started a slow fire that eventually left the cabin in ruins. Since Skwentna only has a population of about 35 people, Steele’s     7     (near) neighbor lived about 20 miles away. With no means of     8     (communicate) to call for help, Steele endured sub-zero temperatures and brutal weather conditions wearing long johns（秋裤）, boots with no socks,     9     a heavy wool sweater.

When his family and friends hadn’t heard from Steele for several     10     (week), they requested a welfare check from Alaska State Troopers. As a helicopter circled over the area, they caught sight of Steele waving his arms in the air next to a massive “SOS” sign that he had stamped into the snow.

【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。

Basketball fans around the world are mourning the     1    (die) of American superstar Kobe Bryant. Bryant, along     2     his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people,     3    (kill) in a helicopter crash Sunday in California. 41-year-old Bryant was an 18-time All-Star player and     4    (win) five NBA championships and two Olympic gold medals. He is considered one of the     5    (great) basketball players of his generation. The helicopter     6    (carry) Bryant and the others crashed into a hilly area in foggy conditions outside Los Angeles.    7    caused the crash is under investigation (调查).It took place about thirty-two kilometers from Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy, a basketball training center in Newbury Park, California. Bryant was on his way     8    (attend) a youth basketball competition with his daughter. When he retired from the NBA in 2016, Bryant was     9     third-leading scorer in NBA history with 33, 643 points. He is     10    (wide) expected to be elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this year.

【推荐3】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.

SOS message on the sand saves missing sailors

Micronesia is an area of the western Pacific Ocean with more than 600 islands,     1     covers a huge area of ocean north of the large island of New Guinea.

Recently, three Micronesian sailors set out to sail 42 km from one Micronesian island to another. Unfortunately, they got     2     (lose), and then they ran out of fuel. After a long time drifting without power in the ocean, they landed on the tiny island of Pikelot, more than 100 km from their destination.

Pikelot is just 450 meters long and 280 meters wide. The highest point on Pikelot is only four meters above the sea. No people live there, and there is no water. The little island     3     (cover) in trees and has sandy beaches.

Three days after the three sailors set out on their voyage, they did not arrive at their destination, so ships and aircraft in the area began looking for the     4     (miss) men. But it was almost impossible to decide where     5     (look) because there are so many small islands and the ocean is so large. One of the ships was the Australian navy ship HMAS Canberra, which     6     (sail)   from Australia to Hawaii and had a helicopter on board.

During this time, the three sailors decided to write     7     message on the beach on their tiny island. They wrote a huge SOS in the sand. SOS is an international signal that people use     8       they need help. Luckily, people on an American aircraft saw the SOS message in the sand and contacted the Canberra. A helicopter       9     the ship landed on the beach and gave the men food and water. Soon after, a Micronesian boat arrived and rescued the three sailors. They are very lucky to be alive, and it was the SOS message in the sand     10     saved them.

【推荐3】Once there lived a rich man,    1     wanted to do something for the people of his town. But first he wanted to find out     2     they were worth his help or not.

In the center of the main road into the town, he placed a very large stone. Then he     3     (hide) behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow. “Who put this stone in the centre of the road?” said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone.    4    , with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way. Another man came along and did     5     same thing; then another came, and another. All of them complained     6     the stone but none tried to remove it.

Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone,    7     (say) to himself, “The night will be very dark. Some neighbors will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone. ” Then pushing and pulling with all his     8     (strong), the young man began to move the stone ... How     9     (surprise) he was! There was a bag of money under     10    .