【推荐2】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

“The first step in realizing your dream is to not be afraid of any challenge,” Liu Wa, a senior high school student from Beijing, said. This July, when Liu    1    (inform) that the music festival her band was attending was about to be cancelled as    2    result of some trouble, she decided to take over the job of hosting it. Finally, she turned this festival    3    a charity event by raising money for a stray dog (流浪狗) rescue station in Anhui province.

Liu became a volunteer for the station accidentally two years ago. “I realized how much money it could take to save those dogs. This music festival,    4    (design) to make people aware of protecting stray dogs and raise money for them, is worth our attention,” Liu told the reporter.

Liu Wa, along with her friends    5    are also members of the band, definitely met some difficulties when    6    (prepare) for the music festival. Above all, they needed to find sponsors to cover the expense as much as possible. “Negotiating (谈判) with sponsors was    7    (extreme) tough sometimes as we needed to figure out what they wanted and trade with resources we had,” Liu recalled. Fortunately, they did make    8    .

In    9    (add), many parents also “sponsored” them with their homemade food. The audience were mainly friends, parents and students.“Because of the pandemic (疫情), the audience were limited to no more than 200 people,    10    (press) us to come up with ways of earning money other than tickets,” Liu explained. Eventually, they managed to raise 50,000 yuan for the stray dog rescue station.

【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 other.

Home Team or Visitor?

“Time to leave!” my mother shouted up the stairs.

My heart beat fast. This was it---my first day at school in Chicago! By the end of last year, we     1     (live) in a town with a total population of about 2000 for many years. Mom had changed jobs, though, and now we were Chicagoans.     2     (have) no idea what to expect from this big-city school, I took one last look in the mirror. My new Chicago Cubs sweater looked great with my old jeans and new tennis shoes. I put my old Cubs cap on my head,     3     (get) my backpack, and ran for the waiting school bus.

When the bus came, it was nearly full. I walked down the aisle (走道)slowly, looking for an empty seat. I felt     4    everybody was staring at me, but most of them were busy talking to each other. However, as I glanced toward the back, I noticed a couple of boys     5     (laugh). They were pointing at me.

“Hey, we have something new     6     (talk) about on our bus today!” one of them shouted over the noise. At the moment, everyone got quiet and all eyes     7     (raise) to me. I felt terribly ashamed.

Suddenly, a big kid stood up and said, “Come over here.” I was glad     8     (get) out of the aisle, away from all those eyes, so I went to sit down beside him. The bus started moving.

“I’m Al,” he said,     9     (shake) my hand. "Don’t let those two bother you. They're some of     10     (big) baseball fans in our school. They aren't actually fond of making fun of you.”

“I’m Lewis.” I said.

Al smiled and said, “You know, you do kind of look like a tourist.”

We both laughed, and suddenly I felt a lot better. Right then I decided that

the next day I'd wear the same kind of clothes I had worn at my old school.

From the experience of that day, I learned that it's always best to just be     11    . I also realized that every day is full of surprises. How could I know that in the middle of an embarrassing moment, I’d meet someone like Al, with     12    I would make a great friend?

【推荐3】阅读下列短文,根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词,在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Unfortunately, in 1995 disaster     1     (strike) Reeve. While horseback riding, he was thrown     2     his horse and broke his neck. His injuries were so severe that he had no     3     (move) or feeling in his body at all and even needed a machine to help him breathe. He wished that he was dead and even thought of ending his life. He fell into a depression     4     lasted for many months. It was only due to the ongoing support of his wife, parents and friends that he eventually found the will to live again.