【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。

Each year, the women of Olney, England, and Liberal, Kansas, compete in     1     unusual footrace. Dressed in     2     (apron) and headscarves, they wait at both towns’ starting lines. Each woman holds a frying pan     3     one pancake inside. At the signal, the women flip their pancakes and they are off.

This “pancake racing” tradition is said to have started on Shrove Tuesday, 1445, in Olney,     4     is the day before the Christian season of Lent(大斋期) begins. During Lent, many people decide to give up sugary or fatty foods.

Legend says that in 1445, an Olney woman     5     (make) pancakes to use up some of her sugar and cooking fats before Lent. She lost track of time and     6     (sudden) heard the church bells ring, signaling the     7     (begin) of the Shrove Tuesday service.     8     (realize) that she was going to be late for church, she     9     (race) out, still wearing her apron and headscarf and holding her frying pan with a pancake in it.

In the following years, the woman’s neighbors imitated her dash to church,     10     pancake racing was born. Olney women continue this Shrove Tuesday tradition more than five hundred years later.

【推荐3】Edinburgh: a city of culture

Edinburgh,     1    (locate) in the southeast of Scotland, is the capital city of Scotland.

With its museums, shops, wonderful historic castles, and many restaurants, there are many interesting things for visitors     2    (enjoy) all year round.

However, there is more to Edinburgh than tourism. Each year, the Edinburgh International Festival     3    (take) place in the city. In late summer, for three weeks, the festival presents classical music, theatre, opera and dance throughout the city. Whatever your cultural     4    (taste) are, you are sure to find something to enjoy.

So far, the Edinburgh International Festival    5    (earn) its reputation (声誉)as one of the world’s     6    (great)celebrations of the arts. The founders believed that the programmes should be of the highest possible artistic standard presented by    7    best artists in the world, that the festival should enrich the cultural life of Europe     8     that it should provide a platform(平台)for the flowering of the human spirit.

The popularity of the festival led     9    the birth of another festival soon—the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Both of them have been     10    (wide) popular over the past 70 years.

【推荐2】在空白处填入适当的内容，(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

If you don’t use your arms or your legs, they become weak; when you start using them again, they     1     (slow) become strong again. Everyone knows that. Yet many people don’t seem to know that memory works in     2     same way. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really     3     (mean) that he keeps his memory in practice by using     4     . When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance     5     (become) strong. If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame, and few of us know that it is just his own fault. Have you ever found that some people can’t read     6     write but usually they have     7     (good) memories? This is     8     they can’t read or write and they have to remember days, names, songs and     9     (story), so their memory is the whole time being exercised. So if you want to have a good memory, learn from them. Practice     10     (remember) things in a way as these people do.

【推荐3】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。

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have followed the meal-time habits of more than 500 people for six years,     1     (find) weight change is most affected by the size and     2     (frequent) of meals rather than the interval from first to last meal. The study challenges the popular trend of intermittent fasting (禁食疗法) as a useful weight loss strategy.

Intermittent fasting, also referred to     3     time-restricted feeding, is a dietary strategy where all meals     4     (consume) during a short window of time each day. These windows can span anywhere from six to ten hours, resulting in a person essentially fasting for up to 18 hours each day.

       Through tracking     5     (participant) daily meal times and sizes and correlating them with weight loss patterns over a six-year period, researchers revealed there was no link between the time of a person’s eating window each day and weight changes. “Timing of meals most likely doesn’t produce     6     immediate impact on weight loss,” said Bennett. “What does make a difference to weight,     7    , is the total number of meals a person eats over the day. Simply eating smaller meals, less frequently, is     8     ultimately leads to weight loss.

All of this, of course, doesn’t mean intermittent fasting strategies won’t help. But it seems increasingly clear that the weight loss     9     (occasion) seen with these eating strategies may be primarily driven by a     10     (reduce) caloric intake.