【推荐1】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。

    1    (locate) is a factor that students cannot ignore when     2    (choose) a university. They     3    (think) about the question since they became senior middle school students. Some like big cities, while others like a smaller college town. If students choose to study abroad, is it important to choose a big city? Before answering the question, let's take     4     look at students studying in China. Many students prefer to study in big cities like Beijing or Shanghai. In a big city, students can easily access museums, concerts, theaters and cultural events.     5    , students studying in big cities will     6    (typical) face a higher cost of living. Even though there are more chances to go out and to fun things in the city, it may take focus away from     7    (they) studies. That might be part of the reason     8     many students prefer a college in a small town. Besides the     9    (low) cost of living, there's a closer friendship     10     students.

【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.

Researchers at Syracuse University in New York tried to answer that question. They came up with some surprising answers.

People who post selfies and use editing software to make themselves look better show behavior     1    (connect) to narcissism, the Syracuse researchers said.

Narcissists are people who think very highly of themselves, especially     2     they look.

Ji Won Kim, a doctoral student at the university’s S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, worked on the study. She said     3     social media can be superficial, it is a good place for people to “work towards satisfying their own vanity. ”

By superficial, she means social media is mostly used by people to share unimportant information about their lives-not deeply personal issues.

There are other reasons, besides narcissism,     4     people post selfies.

People who post group selfies show a need     5     popularity and a need to belong to a group, the Syracuse University research found.

Other findings from the study include:

There are no major differences on how often men and women post selfies and how often they use editing software. But men who post selfies showed more of a need to be seen popular     6     women who posted selfies.

The Newhouse School’s Associate Professor Makana Chock worked on the study. She said selfies     7     not be seen as completely negative.

Chock said     8    (post) selfies on social media is not all that different from what people have done for many years.

On trips and special events, our parents and grandparents used cameras instead of phones to take photos. Before social media, people would bring back photos to show friends and family. You could do nothing but     9    (look) at them.

If you are a nice person, you commented about how nice everyone in the photos looked, especially children and the person     10    (show) the photos. That was the old way of   “clicking” like.

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，在空板处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Nowadays, it is common that more and more high school students open their own micro blogs on the Internet.For one thing, it can provide a colorful platform to show their talent.For    1    ,it is a useful way     2     (release)their pressure.And all these make it more and more popular with high school students.     3     many parents and teachers hold a different view.They think that     4     (manage) one’s micro blog will take a lot of time and energy,     5    should be used to study.

In my view, I am greatly in favor of this activity.Today the Internet is playing     6    important role in our life.Therefore as high school students of the Information Age, we need to learn to make use of this valuable tool to communicate and display ourselves.What’s more, opening and organizing micro blogs need     7     (vary) abilities such as writing, designing, being skillful at computer and so on.Only if we master those abilities can we make a successful micro blog.As a result, we improve ourselves while    8    (organize) our micro blogs.

In fact, micro blog    9     (oneself) is of little harm.It is your attitude towards it     10    matters.We should take the advantages and avoid some bad effects.

【推荐3】语法填空

China’s TikTok, which     1     (take) the world by storm over the past years, is working its magic in its home nation, too.

In the annual report of     2     (it) parent company ByteDance this week, the Chinese version of TikTok     3     (call) Douyin has accumulated more than 600 million daily active users. This is an     4     (impress) growth for the addictive video app,     5     had got over 250 million daily active users by the end of December, 2018.

The report not only describes the users’ behavior and trends but also illustrates the cultural difference     6     China and the US. For example, knowledge-based content is     7     (extreme) popular in China, and less so in the US. Also, in the US, it seems that it’s mostly teenagers who are creating dance videos, but in China those people who produce the most dance videos are users born in     8     1960s.

With Douyin, users can record videos, edit them and share them online. It is a great way     9     (spend) the leisure time browsing these funny videos. Now, Douyin has established itself as one of the largest knowledge, culture and art     10     (platform) in China.