【推荐2】请从下面方框中15个单词或短语选出10个，并用其正确形式填入空格中。

take control of; check in; damage; bury; apply for; effort honour; have an effect on; strike; give up; various; work out date back; make a difference; refer to

1. I’m writing to ________ the position as a student volunteer.
2. Spain ________ Peru in the 16^th century and ruled until 1821.
3. Most of the Great Wall can ________ to the Ming Dynasty.
4. In order to keep healthy, you need to ________ at a gym twice a week.
5. It was a great ________ to be invited to attend the opening ceremony.
6. The great people are the ones who ________ to the world.
7. The fire caused great ________ to our house.
8. The change will ________ our daily life.
9. An earthquake ________ Japan last month.
10. There are ________ ways of cooking dishes in China.

【推荐3】选词填空

in good shape, try out for, crash into, gather around, let sb. down, pay off, keep up with, earn one’s place

1. Doing yoga keeps you ________________ and it is perfect for people who want to improve their flexibility and strength.
2. It’s her fighting spirit that makes her ________________ on the women’s volleyball team.
3. Due to the development of network technology, people can learn from online courses to ________________ the trend of the world.
4. The Chinese Para Ice Hockey team was established in 2016, and their years of hard work ________________ at the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games.
5. Why don’t you ________________ the school basketball team? I believe you can make the team.
6. On the Chinese New Year’s Eve, people always ________________ the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
7. I went to his lecture with great interest but his talk didn’t show anything new, which ________________.
8. The media reported that the helicopter, with six people on board, ________________ the Ionian Sea.

【推荐1】-ed/-ing Adjectives Choose the correct options.
1. I am interested/interesting in photography. I think black and white photos are more interested/interesting.
2. I don’t find football very excited/exciting. I only get excited/exciting when I watch the World Cup.
3. I get tired/tiring when I have a lot of homework. For me, maths is very tired/tiring.
4. It’s not surprised/surprising that he won the race, but I was surprised/surprising that he broke the world record!
5. I read an inspired/inspiring story about a volunteer teacher. I felt inspired/inspiring to do more for my community.
6. I usually find history a little boring/bored, but I enjoyed reading about the history of film.
7. We all felt very depressing/depressed when we saw the news about the spread of bird flu on TV.
8. The exhausted/exhausting climbers were waiting for rescue workers.

【推荐2】用方框中单词的适当形式完成下列句子，每个单词只能用一次。

respond       gift       punish       inspire       vary       practice       influence

1. It is a highly ________ magazine that is widely read by engineers.
2. To keep healthy, it is important that our diet is ________ and balanced.
3. According to many deaf people all around the world, the most ________ and popular way of communicating is with sign language.
4. He committed a crime, so he was put in prison as a ________.
5. I wrote to the manager, but there was no ________ to my complaints.
6. The president’s speech was so ________ that all the people present were highly motivated.
7. The school offers special training courses for the ________ children who show talents in art.

【推荐3】用方框中单词或短语的适当形式完成下列句子, 每个单词只能用一次。

regard...as, inspire, fight for, despite, come across, effect, depression

1. The teacher used to tell her that she could refer to her dictionary when she _________ unknown words.
2. This drug proves to be _________ in reducing pain.
3. _________ all the difficulties, he still managed to get his master’s degree.
4. I was _________ to know that I failed to pass the exam.
5. Nowadays, China __________ one of the most influential countries in the world.
6. I was deeply moved by the professor’s _______ speech.
7. We must make an effort to _________ justice and equality.

【推荐2】Directions: Complete the following sentences by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. survive             B. impress             C. risky             D. check out          E. exploration          F. fit in G. conduct             H. strategy             I. dizzy            J. pressured             K. blame

1. Hard as I tried to ___________, I still felt that I was out of place, for those around me were much younger.
2. You don’t need to make fancy foods to ___________guests — something simple but good will do.
3. A child might need to be tempted to keep a promise, or simply ___________to do a job well.
4. Few sites that I visited had reached a point where they clearly would___________ if these extra start-up funds disappeared.
5. What he said didn’t seem quite right, so I decided to___________ it________.
6. At least an hour should be allowed to___________ an interview with a vulnerable elderly client, in order to begin an assessment.
7. ___________investments can offer high yields, but also the possibility of greater losses.
8. So we must go further in our ___________of the ever more complex relationship between inflation and unemployment.
9. Do not place the ___________anywhere but on yourself, because you alone have chosen that path.
10. Murdoch bought several TV stations, as part of his___________ for building a media empire.

【推荐3】选词填空

approach; entire; conduct; attach significance to; pressure; apart from; declare; account for

1. He ________ he would not run for a second term as president.
2. ________ English, he had to study a second foreign language while in college.
3. I ________ great ________ the news.
4. The curator ________ the visitors around the museum.
5. How do you ________ your absence from school yesterday?
6. Her health broke down under the ________ of work.
7. He had spent his ________ life in China as a doctor.
8. They've taken a very cautious ________.