【推荐1】根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

after all;communicate with;drive away;share with;as well as

1. And most of all we must ________them our hope for the future.
2. I just saw the car ________. I didn’t see Larkin.
3. ________, when someone wants to get better at something, they should surround themselves with more of that activity, not less, right?
4. What is more, the disabled can correspond and ________others with the help of the Internet.
5. I have followed your careers and enjoyed your victories ________crying for your tragedies.

【推荐2】选词填空

probable       likely       possible

1. We are ________ to succeed as long as we work hard.
2. The scholarship made it ________ for him to finish his studies.
3. He has been practising for a long time. It is ________ that he will pass the driving test.
4. Studies show that people who volunteer are less ________ to develop depression than people who don’t.

【推荐1】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. unwritten   B. respectively   C. staged   D. expressions   E. appreciation F. instances   G. responded   H. unlike   I. constructed   J. initially     K. frequency

Say Thank-You

To better understand how people express gratitude in normal life, anthropologist Simeon Floyd, at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands and his colleagues     1     a large, cross-cultural study covering five continents and eight languages. They included English, Italian, Polish, Russian and Lao, as well as     2     languages such as Cha’ palaa, spoken in Ecuador, Murrinh-Patha, spoken in northern Australia, and Siwu, spoken in Ghana. Both verbal and non-verbal expressions of gratitude, such as a smile or a nod, were regarded as interactions.

Floyd’s team left cameras in household and community settings and captured more than 1,500     3     of social interactions in which one person asked for something and another     4    .

They found that in every culture, people fulfilled requests, but expressions of gratitude, such as saying “thanks” or nodding in     5    , were remarkably rare, occurring just 5.5 percent of the time.

English and Italian speakers had slightly higher rates of gratitude expression—14.5 percent and 13.5 percent of the time,     6    , but still surprisingly low considering how polite Western people think they are, says Floyd. “English speakers are not so     7     other people, and often prefer not to express gratitude in informal contexts,” he says.

Cha’ palaa speakers had the lowest     8     of expressed gratitude, with zero examples in 96 recorded interactions. But this starts to make sense when you learn that the language has no easy way to say “thank you”.

Also surprised by the findings was David Peterson, a linguist (语言学家) who developed the     9     language Dothraki for the TV show Game of Thrones. It too, has no word for thank you, something Peterson     10     considered to be unlikely. “I thought that you had to have a word to express gratitude,” he says.

【推荐3】阅读下面句子，在方框内选择一个适当的词，在空白处填入其正确的形式，其中有两个多余。

promote       concern        investigate          conduct        issue       harmony recover        symbol        appropriate          shelter          affect     boost

1. Applause is a sign of __________after a good performance.
2. The chairman answered several questions ___________the future of the nation.
3. Red envelopes are a traditional Chinese New Year gift ___________good fortune.
4. After spending a semester together, our class has established a __________relationship.
5. All the people in the country were deeply ________by the death of great scientist.
6. The company has announced that it will carry out a full ____________into the accident.
7. After the war broke out, a neighbor _________the boy whose parents were killed for seven days.
8. A guide ____________the tourist around the ruins of the accent Inca Empire when one tourist discovered something unusual.
9. One admitted into a university in Australia, you will _____________with a student visa valid for 2 years.
10. To be awarded the student of the year has greatly _________my confidence in setting a high goal.

【推荐1】从所给方框中选择适当的单词完成句子， (每组有两个多余的选项)。

A. criminals        B. motions        C. coincidences D. ancestors        E. genetics        F. ecosystems        G. incentives

1. Weightlifters and gymnasts perfect their skills by repeating the same ________ again and again until they are automatic.
2. Today, many people who live near EI Popo continue to see the mountain as their ________ did.
3. Though there are no laws against tattoos today, they are still strongly associated with ________ in some places.
4. It is said that future cases of river piracy could have disastrous effects on towns, villages and ________ that have appeared around available water.
5. He wondered whether Shmuel had been told that he was going home too; after all,
________ like that do happen, such as the fact that Bruno and Shmuel shared the same birthday.