【推荐1】After reading the sentences below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. analyzed   B. maintaining   C. valuable   D. quality   E. processed F. luxury   G. vast   H. attractions   I. fascinating   J. stuck   K. practical

1. I find good novels really ________ as the plots are well-designed to engage readers’ attention.
2. Many people book cheap hotels and visit typical tourist ________ in the city to enjoy their holidays.
3. Researchers ________ the data and compared them with those of the control group.
4. He treated the painting that survived the war as his most ________ property and put it in the drawer with great care.
5. Environmentalists who call air-conditioning a（an）________ we cannot afford as air-conditioning contributes much to global warming.
6. Sometimes I would play with some bands. But I never really ________ to it, though I did keep playing the guitar and end up getting pretty good at it.
7. When the scientists studied scans of the brains of pet dogs, they found that theirs, like ours, ________ the sounds of spoken words in a multi-step manner.
8. Imagine living on the edge of a（an）________ desert, which is moving quietly closer to your village every day and covering your fields. How terrible!
9. In Western cultures, ________ eye contact in conversations is necessary. A westerner might, in fact, consider a lack of eye contact as a lack of interest.
10. It was because of a strong sense of responsibility and much ________ experience that the teacher who worked in the countryside cultivated a great number of excellent students.

【推荐2】根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

in terms of; boost one’s confidence; from head to toe; for the first time; stare at; come across

1. The doctor examined the man ________after he was hurt badly in a car accident.
2. To everyone’s delight, her passing the exams ________in her ability.
3. ________ remote learning, schoolchildren in Africa are the most affected, where at least half of all students are unable to access it.
4. It was when I got back to my apartment that I first ________my new neighbors.
5. A Chinese spacecraft carrying lunar samples took off from the moon________.
6. The frightened thief hid himself in the dark corner of the yard, ________the open door.

【推荐2】根据语境，选择下框中的单词或短语，必要时用正确的形式填空。框中有两个为多余的单词或短语。

call on        the instant     stare at       be banned from     under no circumstances             efficiency     identical     accompany     by comparison       be acknowledged as

1. Anna stood anxiously ____________ the pouring rain while Molly looked up at a pretty doll in the window.
2. She ____________________ the game after failing a drug test.
3. Professor Hawking _________________ one of the world’s greatest physicists.
4. ___________________ will China be the first to use nuclear weapons.
5. Much to my surprise, she burst into tears ________________ she read the letter.
6. We _______________ to fight against pollution for our better life in the future.
7. __________________ by a great number of people, the president walked into the building.
8. The Internet is a very ________________ medium for spreading information.

【推荐3】选词填空

straighten up; in favour of; react to; call on; in other words; stare at

1. You don’t need to come to the company tomorrow;______, you are fired.
2. The experts ______ people and the government to take measures to protect the environment.
3. Hearing this, the kids who were sitting lazily at their desks immediately ______.
4. The lady ______ the painting, wondering where she had seen it.
5. A recent survey showed 75% of those questioned were ______ the reform.
6. They were not sure how the Americans would ______ the new type of music.

【推荐1】阅读下面句子，选择一个词组用适当形式填入空白处。

make sense          to the point          be in the mood for   feel sympathy for     vary with hold fast to            make up                    in sympathy with   at dawn            go blank

1. ________ dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
2. Though lacking in fluency, he spoke ________, winning the applause of audience.
3. Changes in price normally ________ changes of supply and demand.
4. As a writer, I’m sure you have faced situations where your mind ________ and you just don’t know what to write.
5. I ________ what you want to do, but I don’t know how to help you.
6. It utterly ________ to eat a reasonably balanced diet when slimming.
7. The boy had no excuses ________ this time, then hanging his head.
8. Everyone who knew the truth ________ the victims of the accident.
9. I never expected you to ________ joking at the critical moment.
10. The two brothers decided to leave ________, for they had many miles to cover.

【推荐2】选择正确的短语的正确形式填空，有两个是多余的。

on behalf of,   take up,   make sense,   get on,   drop out,   boil down to,   apply oneself to

1. It ________ to buy the most up-to-date version of dictionary
2. If you ________ the job in hand, you'll soon finish it.
3. The advice that they gave him ________ this: he should take care of his own health.
4. Politics is seen as a man's world. It is very difficult for women to ________.
5. The table ________ too much room, you should have bought a smaller one.