【推荐1】阅读下面文本，从方框的单词或短语中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

A. difficulty       B. heroes       C. remembered       D. finger       E. treated       F. position       G. inventions

Norman Bethune was Canadian, but he is one of the most famous       1     in China. During the war in Spain, he     2     the wounded soldiers there. He invented special tools to use outside hospitals. His     3     saved many lives. In China, he tried his best to help sick and wounded soldiers. He often worked without taking a rest and did not look after himself. During an operation, he cut his     4    , and finally died of his wound. He is still     5     in both China and Canada.

【推荐2】选出正确的选项完成课文段落，选项中有两项为多余选项。

A. needed             B. severe restrictions             C. exceptionally D. had a tendency          E. had got          F. stubborn            G. anxious

Helen Keller was an     1     special girl. By the time she was seven years old, she still couldn’t speak, read or write and     2     to have everything done for her. This was because she couldn’t see or hear. With these     3     to her communication, Helen’s behaviour was often unbearable. She was sometimes troublesome,     4     and angry, and     5     to break things when no one understood her.

【推荐3】选词填空

influence, decade, worthwhile, determine

Born to poor Irish parents in 1835 and growing up in the United States, Andrew Carnegie shared one-bedroom homes with his relatives.     1     not to follow the same path as his father, who was forced to beg for work at some points during his life, Carnegie made the best of the work he found by becoming indispensable (不可或缺的) and making friends with the     2     people in his town.

In the 1860s, Carnegie co-founded his first steel company, near Pittsburgh. Over the next few     3    , he created a steel empire. In 1901, banker John Pierpont Morgan purchased Carnegie Steel for some $480 million, making Andrew Carnegie one of the world’s richest men. His subsequent (随后的) reputation, however, rests not on the wealth he gradually got during his life, but on the wealth he distributed to charities and     4     causes, especially educational ones.

【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 only one word more than you need.

A. humble     B. season     C. taste     D. legendary     E. enterprise     F. unexplored     G. unattractive H. unfounded     I. shelter     J. adventures     K. comforts

An Excerpt from The Woods Were Tossing with Jewels

In 1899 when I was five years old and living in Palmetto, Florida, my father decided to take his family through the wilds of the Everglades and have a claim on an offshore island. His purpose was to farm this island but behind this was his wish to give us a     1     of the way he grew up. He had been a cowboy in the Myakka area when he was fifteen years old. These ranchlands overlapped the north end of the Everglades at a time when it was     2    .

His life was a series of     3    . He had lost a father and a brother in the Civil War. His father’s carriage house in Charleston, South Carolina, and his nearby plantation were in the line of Sherman’s march. His widow took her eight-year-old son, my father, and fled to Quincy, Florida. When Papa finished school at the academy there, he went to work as a cowboy on a ranch in Myakka for a friend of his dead father’s. By age thirty, he was a county sheriff, no     4     job in those days, and his territory was wide ranging. The county he served was later split up into six or eight counties.

South Florida was     5     to many because of the mosquitoes, panthers, crocodiles, swamps, and wetlands. But these marks of wild country called to my father like the     6     siren song.

He started building a covered wagon around the fourth of July and we went into the wilderness with him in the fall. We had made our home in Palmetto for a year or so where my mother’s gentle folks, the Harrisons, had settled following the Civil War. Our comfortable two- story frame house on the Manatee River was set about with live oaks, guavas, and long-leafed pine that branched out from the foot of the tree to     7     our cow and provide a roost for the chickens. My grandfather was the town doctor. He doctored the entire county and was paid in eggs and ham and vegetables when they were in     8    . It was an idyllic life, and we lived close to our family and to the     9     and safety a small town could afford. But Papa was a man of     10    ; he realized that the untouched Ten Thousand Islands off the southwest coast of the state were rich in soil for crops and in game for food.

【推荐3】选用适当的单词或短语补全短文

A. lucky       B. postpone     C. argument     D. envelope     E. bet     F. odd

The tale was set in London in 1903. The two brothers had been having a heated     1     for a couple of days and had decided to make a     2     to settle it. Henry, an American who was wandering on the street outside, hungry and penniless, drew their attention. He was invited to the two brothers' house. They felt happy about Henry's bad luck and then gave him an     3    . Henry was asked to     4     opening it until two o'clock. He felt that was     5    .