【推荐1】Directions: Complete the following passage 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. figured       B. novelty       C. practical       D. exhausting       E. regret       F. fortune G. hopefully       H. collected       I. perspective       J. conflicts       K. basically

My First Job

Jocelyn, Scotland

I grew up in a rural community where it was common for kids to help out on the nearby farms. When I was about fifteen or sixteen, I started working Saturdays picking potatoes. We’d be     1     at seven in the morning and driven out to the fields, where we’d walk behind these huge machines and bag all the potatoes they’d dig up. It was     2    , but I enjoyed being outside and we all had a laugh together. Of course, as a teenager, I provided cheap labour, but that didn’t bother me. The £30 I earned every week — cash-in-hand, of course — felt like a(n)     3     back then.

ELA, Poland

I did politics at university and I really wanted to go and see more of Europe, so I       4     I needed a part-time job. A friend of mine did market research for this local company and she put in a good word for me. I mostly worked weekends, but once in a while they’d asked me to do the odd evening as well. I    5     went door to door asking specific questions what people drank, who they were planning to vote for, all sorts. It was fun to begin with, meeting so many new people, and the money was quite good too, but the     6     soon wore off. It soon got very repetitive. I don’t       7     it, though. I learned that a smile goes a long way — and as I know that some people were lazy and made up their data, I’ve learned not to take statistics for granted too!

Carla, Chile

I joined the army after leaving school because I was a restless person and didn’t like ‘academic’ things. Funnily enough, I’ve actually spent quite a lot of time in a classroom since I joined, as we get training for things like logistics. It’s OK, though — you see the     8     benefits more than at school, so I don’t regret joining at all. And if I wasn’t in the army, I would never have gone somewhere like Haiti. I went there as part of a UN humanitarian mission. For sure, people associate the army with war, but nowadays it’s more about peacekeeping and helping people involved in       9    . My area — logistics — is really about solving problems and communication. I’m certainly staying in the army and     10     I’ll achieve a high rank.

【推荐2】Complete the passage with the phrases in the box.

in case            in a direct manner          by accident          as a matter of fact            in that case

I came to love stage design    1    . When I was in the ninth grade, my teacher Ms Weaver asked me to join her stage design team for a play. I told her that I didn’t know anything about stage design. But Ms Weaver said, “Give it a try,    2    you have a talent for it,” so I became part of her team. And    3    , Ms Weaver turned out to be right—I was good at stage design! Ms Weaver was strict and spoke     4    , but she was always encouraging and inspiring. For example, if we could not figure out what kind of stage design to create for a scene, she would say, “    5    , think about the plot from a different point of view. You never know what will pop into your mind!” I have to say, learning stage design greatly broadened my mind. And thanks to Ms Weaver, I began to have more confidence in my own creativity, and I developed such a strong interest in stage design that I realised I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing it.

【推荐3】Complete the text with the correct form of the words below.

dare   cease   bother   expose   arrest   remote   council   pleasant   literally   tolerate

I live near the biggest park in the city and last year I just could not believe the amount of litter left there. Every day I walked my dog, I saw bags full of empty bottles, paper, plastic and other waste thrown everywhere. It didn’t seem to     1     some people but I couldn’t     2     it. I tried to clean it up, which is not a     3     job, but     4     the very next day it would be back.

One night, I heard some noise and when l looked out the window, I saw that it was a van. A man got out of the vehicle and started throwing bags into the park. “How     5     he?” I thought to myself. I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

I noticed the name of his company on the van, so l took note of it and called both the local     6     and the police the next morning. It turned out he had been charging people to remove waste and then just throwing it all over the city and in     7     parts of the countryside. He was     8    , fined a large amount of money and his company     9     operating. We need to     10     people like this who are breaking the law and making money from it.