【推荐1】语法填空：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。
I had the1. ______ (mean)mother in the world. While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have cereal and eggs. When 2. _______ had sugary drinks and candy for lunch, I had to eat a sandwich. But at least I3. _____( be) alone. My sister and two brothers had the same mean mother 4. ______ I did.
My mother knew where we were at all times. She knew 5. ____ our friends were. We had to wear clean clothes and take a bath every day. We had to be in bed 6. ____ 9:00 pm and up at 8:00 am. We wouldn’t sleep till noon like our friends. So while they slept, our mother gave us work to do. We had to wash dishes, make our beds, and learn to cook. I believe she lay awake at night7. _____ (think) up mean things to do to us.
My mother was such a mother. Out of four 8. _____(child), a couple of us went on to higher education. 9. ____of us have ever done bad things. She forced us to grow up into 【小题10    10     (educate)and honest people. I am trying to raise my kids like this. I will feel proud when My kids call me mean.

【推荐2】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。

Christmas is no fun when you're poor. Twenty years ago, I was a young,     1     (struggle) substitute teacher (代课老师) whose calls into work had been few. Money was tight, but bills were due and my wife and I couldn't even afford     2       (get) Christmas gifts for each other. The only gifts we could get for our children     3     (be) a few soft toys that I had found     4     (sell) at half price in the supermarket. I opened the door and brought in the gifts I had hidden in our old car's trunk. Then I handed them to my son     5     daughter. I watched with a sad smile as they did their best to tear off the wrapping (包装) paper. As they pulled out their     6     (toy) , though. I noticed their eyes lit up and they jumped up and down. My daughter     7     (happy) hugged her toy and then hugged her mom and me as well. I laughed as I watched my children play with their toys     8     hours, and I thanked God for the     9     (great) gift I had ever been given. Till today I still treasure the gift of pure love     10    my son and daughter gave me that day.

【推荐3】Passage 1:
My daughter, Jane, never dreamed of receiving a letter from a girl of her own age in Holland. Last year, we were travelling across the     1     and Jane put a piece of paper with her name and address on it into a bottle . She     2     the bottle into the sea. She never thought of it again, but ten minutes later, she received a letter from a girl in Holland. Both girls write to each other     3     now. However, they have decided to use the post office. Letters will cost a little more, but they will certainly travel faster.
Passage 2:
I had a letter from my sister yesterday. She lives in Nigeria. In her letter , she said that she would come to England next year. If she comes, she will get a     4     . We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun     5     my sister left. The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks    6     to some people. It       7     be the only modern house in the district.
Passage 3:
I enter the hotel manager’s office and sat down. I had just lost £50 and I felt very upset.‘I left the money in my room,’I said, ‘and it’s not there now.’The manager was
    8     , but he could do nothing. ‘Everyone’s losing money these days,’he said. He started to complain about this wicked world but was     9     by a knock at the door. A girl came in and put an envelop on his desk. It contained £50 . ‘I found this    10     this gentleman’s room,’she said. ‘Well,’I said to the manager, ‘there is still some honesty in this world! ’

【推荐1】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。

Since the pre-Qin period, Chengdu     1    (be) an important cultural town in China. But     2     really sets the city apart, culturally, is its opera. An important aspect of Sichuan Opera is     3     magic of “face changing” where vividly coloured marks are changed within the blink of an eye. In opera gardens and tea houses across the town, audiences who want a glimpse of the local culture love to drink tea while     4    (listen) to Sichuan Opera and watching face changing.

It     5    (believe) that “face changing” has its roots in evolution. Early humans needed survival strategies     6    (avoid) fierce animals and foreign invaders. Often, aggressive facial gestures and non-verbal cues were part of it. The Sichuan Opera is said to bring this range of emotions on stage.

Once the performance starts, the actor keeps pulling down one mask after another in swift     7    (movement) to convey different emotions.     8    (astonishing) , no matter how close one is to the stage and stare     9     the actor, they just can’t tell how the masks change.

In fact, the different kinds of characters and personalities that Sichuan Opera brings alive can be found among common people. This is why     10    (it) emotions will continue to resonate with people for a long time.

【推荐2】A lot of films have tried to describe the afterlife and our memories of family members,     1     few have done as well as Coco, Disney Pixar’s     2     (late) masterpiece animation, which hit the big screen on Nov. 24, 2017.

    3     (inspire) by the Mexican holiday of Dia de los Muertos — Day of the Dead — the film’s production team created a young boy, Miguel, who wants his family to understand his love of music.     4     that year’s Dia de los Muertos,     5     accident takes him to the Land of the Dead. In this land, there are friendly skeletons who can cross a bridge made of flower petals to visit their living family — that is, as long as their family still puts their photos on the family shrine (神龛). Those spirits who     6     (forget) by their family will disappear completely. So it’s in this magical world     7     Miguel gets to meet and discover the truth about his great-great-grandpa.

In an era     8     young people are so     9     (easy) attracted by celebrities, Coco reveals the emptiness of such flattery, teaching kids to preserve and respect the memory of their elders while     10     (remind) them that the source of true creativity is so often personal.