【推荐1】Finish the story with the phrases in the box.

Both Jo and I            up to            in their names          as well            A couple of years            pulled out          pretty seriously            in need

    1    ago, my wife and I    2     a gift catalogue for people    3     and invited each of our kids to choose something that we could buy     4    . When we handed the list to our nine-year-old daughter, we expected her to choose a toilet or a sewing machine or something similar. But instead, she thought it through    5     and chose village development package, which was worth    6    $5,000.     7     were surprised and ashamed, as our daughter’s generosity really challenged our finances and pushed the limits of our generosity    8    .

【推荐2】根据语境，用方框内恰当词组的正确形式补充完整以下段落(有两个为多余选项)

settle for, be proud of, turn to, thanks to, in the lead, lose track of, after all

It was the final part of the 2016 World Triathlon series in Mexico. Jonny was     1     when he was about to fall onto the track.     2     his brother’s timely help, he got second place at last. Alistair chose brotherly love rather than the chance to win the race. They were brothers     3    . Throughout their entire life, the brothers always     4     each other for help when they were in trouble, and their mother     5     them.

【推荐3】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1】选用适当的单词或短语补全短文。

friendship     self-centered   percent     website     smartphone   online   anything   real-life

Some people believe that the Internet has many negative aspects. Talking to people    1    or having a    2    with someone you only talk to on the Internet isn’t a replacement for    3    communication. While it can connect you with other people who use a    4    , face-to-face contact with others is important to help you maintain healthy relationships. This argument is thought-provoking because it shows that people still need face-to-face communication with others today. In addition, spending too much time on the Internet can make you    5    because you can become obsessed with popularity and gaining followers. Finally, you need to be careful with various    6    because you can never be 100       7    sure that    8    you read online is true.

【推荐3】选词填空

social media;throw the baby out with the bathwater;lose track of;keep in mind;thanks to

In the past, we might    1     our friends when we parted and lived far away from each other. Nowadays,    2    the advanced technology, it is convenient for us to chat with our friends through    3     wherever they are. Some people may argue that there is false information online. However, we should    4     that its advantages are much more than its disadvantages. So we should not    5     and use it properly.