【推荐1】My mother asked me to call my grandmother. What could we possibly have a _______about? Nothing! I just did what she told me and_______called my grandmother.

When she_______the phone, I planned to have a small, 10-minute exchange. _______, she invited me to lunch at her house so we could_______together. Hesitantly, I agreed.

After hanging up the phone, I immediately _______ agreeing to the lunch date on Saturday.

Surprisingly, my Saturday morning wasn’t _______. I found it was nice to see her. I forgot the time_______her stories about her recent trip to Europe and her sewing class. I wasn’t _______that 60-year-old people had a social life. It turned out that her________wasn’t as mundane（平凡的）as I thought. I was happy to have spent time with her. We planned to meet ________ at her house. My mom didn’t have to________me any more.

This time I didn't feel the gloom(忧郁). ________I wanted to ask were building up in my mind: What was my grandfather like? What did you do at my age?

As we looked through pictures, I was ________. I had never seen, nor imagined, my grandmother as a young girl. She reminded me of myself. I learned that as humans, we________human experiences, no matter what age.

She told me about the time she and her friends went swimming in the lake late at night and the first time she met my________. "You would have adored him. He was the funniest man I'd ever met."We sorted through three shoeboxes of photographs, each with a ________story.

Ever since that________phone call to my grandmother, we have talked at least once a week. I regret not calling her earlier. She has________me what can’t be learned in a textbook: being open to new things, enjoying the simple things, and appreciating what life has given me. I have________a new perspective(视角) on life.

1.

A．chance

B．dream

C．secret

D．conversation

2.

A．nervously

B．appropriately

C．painfully

D．calmly

3.

A．attached

B．showed

C．heard

D．answered

4.

A．However

B．Therefore

C．Otherwise

D．Besides

5.

A．swim

B．chat

C．shop

D．cook

6.

A．avoided

B．enjoyed

C．forgot

D．regretted

7.

A．funny

B．special

C．boring

D．tiring

8.

A．listening to

B．belonging to

C．looking forward to

D．living up to

9.

A．aware

B．sure

C．clear

D．afraid

10.

A．wisdom

B．life

C．strength

D．success

11.

A．too

B．again

C．then

D．once

12.

A．press

B．permit

C．promise

D．reward

13.

A．Requirements

B．Experiences

C．Suggestions

D．Questions

14.

A．puzzled

B．embarrassed

C．surprised

D．relaxed

15.

A．imagine

B．share

C．improve

D．gather

16.

A．teacher

B．friend

C．father

D．grandfather

17.

A．new

B．common

C．nice

D．familiar

18.

A．last

B．unexpected

C．polite

D．helpful

19.

A．asked

B．proved

C．taught

D．tested

20.

A．questioned

B．gained

C．overcome

D．advertised

【推荐2】Almost everything was fantastic in the nature camp except for a girl, Elizabeth. When I saw her _________ alone in the hot sun at lunch, I asked her to eat with us under a shady (阴凉的) tree. However, Elizabeth refused my kind ___________. When we invited her to play volleyball with us, Elizabeth ___________ our invitation, too. After a few more unfriendly refusals like that, I decided to stay away from Elizabeth.

It ___________ that we were going on a nature ___________ and that our instructor paired everyone up with a partner. Guess who my partner turned out to be? It was Elizabeth!

“What do you like to do ___________?” I asked, trying to make small _________ as we started out. “I like to walk in peace and quiet,” Elizabeth replied. So we had the quietest and most peaceful hike in the world ___________ we saw a bird. “I think his wing is hurt. Poor little bird,” Elizabeth said ___________. “He might be taking a rest over there,” I said. Elizabeth nodded. Then she whispered, “But what if he’s in ____________, like my granddad?” “Your granddad?” I said. “He fell and broke his leg the day the camp started. He’s ____________ in hospital and is in so much pain,” Elizabeth explained. I noticed she was __________. “I’m sorry for what I have done. For some reason, whenever I get really sad, I act __________ and want to be alone,” she added.

“I get it,” I said. “I don’t always know how to ________ it when I’m feeling down, either.” “Thanks,” she said, wiping off her tears.

After that, Elizabeth seemed to get along well with us, and I think she actually __________ the last days of the camp.

Next time, if someone is unfriendly, give him a second chance. Maybe he’s going through a difficult time.

1.

A．sleeping

B．sitting

C．protesting

D．disappearing

2.

A．proposal

B．help

C．symbol

D．order

3.

A．turned over

B．turned in

C．turned out

D．turned down

4.

A．seemed

B．appeared

C．looked

D．happened

5.

A．talk

B．discussion

C．issue

D．hike

6.

A．for free

B．for ever

C．for fun

D．for certain

7.

A．mistakes

B．talks

C．changes

D．promises

8.

A．unless

B．though

C．until

D．since

9.

A．happily

B．coldly

C．sadly

D．luckily

10.

A．silence

B．pain

C．peace

D．trouble

11.

A．still

B．yet

C．already

D．ever

12.

A．smiling

B．crying

C．drawing

D．suffering

13.

A．nicely

B．properly

C．rudely

D．naturally

14.

A．ruin

B．recognize

C．repair

D．solve

15.

A．enjoyed

B．planned

C．hated

D．avoided

【推荐1】Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor cars ________ a hundred miles in more than an hour, aircraft cross the world within a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of ________ seems never-ending. Every year motor cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts(吹嘘) of ________ precious seconds in handling tasks.

All these save time, but at a cost. When we lose or ________ half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag(时差). Our bodies feel that they have been ________ behind in another time zone. Again, spending too long at ________ results in painful wrists(手腕) and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers: too much use may transmit harmful ________ into our brains.

However, how do we ________ the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so used to constant activity that we find it ________ to sit down and do nothing or even just one thing at a   ________ . Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen ________ to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.

There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation(耕作) of the ________ or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace. There is much that we might envy about a ________ of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors ________ . Modern machines have ________ people from that primitive(原始的) existence.

1.

A．explore

B．get

C．cover

D．fly

2.

A．speed

B．time

C．product

D．distance

3.

A．wasting

B．losing

C．saving

D．spending

4.

A．earn

B．drop

C．miss

D．gain

5.

A．left

B．come

C．forgotten

D．felt

6.

A．ships

B．airplanes

C．computers

D．cars

7.

A．prevention

B．radiation

C．combination

D．damage

8.

A．control

B．handle

C．do

D．deal

9.

A．uncomfortable

B．easy

C．difficult

D．good

10.

A．second

B．day

C．year

D．time

11.

A．actively

B．quietly

C．quickly

D．curiously

12.

A．surface

B．water

C．land

D．island

13.

A．way

B．view

C．pathway

D．point

14.

A．expressed

B．charged

C．inspired

D．faced

15.

A．freed

B．remained

C．kept

D．cleared

【推荐2】Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving Day, is a busy shopping day in the United States. Many people have a day off work on that day. Some use this to make trips; others use it to start _______ for the Christmas season.
Many stores have special offers and _______ their prices on some goods. Some _______ their opening hours. There can also be traffic jams on roads to _______ shopping destinations.
There are _______ common theories as to why it is called Black Friday. One is that the wheels of vehicles in heavy traffic on the day left many black markings on the road surface, _______ the term Black Friday. The other is from an old way of recording business accounts. _______ were recorded in red ink and profits in black. Many businesses, _______ small businesses, started making profits before Christmas, so they started to mark in black ink on the day after Thanksgiving.1.

A．traveling

B．shopping

C．visiting

D．cooking

2.

A．prepare

B．check

C．lower

D．raise

3.

A．shorten

B．enlarge

C．reduce

D．extend

4.

A．popular

B．outstanding

C．splendid

D．ordinary

5.

A．many

B．two

C．few

D．no

6.

A．leaving for

B．leading to

C．coming out

D．sticking to

7.

A．Prices

B．Interests

C．Losses

D．Benefits

8.

A．particularly

B．specially

C．obviously

D．eventually

【推荐3】You can actually catch a good mood or a bad mood from your friends, according to a recent study in the journal Royal Society Open Science.But that shouldn't stop you from____with pals who are down in the dumps,say the study authors:____,the effect isn't large enough to push you into depression.

The new study adds to a growing body of research suggesting that happiness and sadness-as well as lifestyle and behavioral factors like smoking,drinking,obesity,fitness habits and even the ability to concentrate-can____across social networks, both online and in real life.But while many____studies have only looked at friendship data at one point in time, this is one of the few that measured social and mood changes over time.

The new research involved groups of junior-high and high-school students who took part in___ screenings(筛查） and answered questions about their best friends, many of whom were also enrolled in the study. In total,2,194 students were included in the____,which used a mathematical model to look for connections among friend networks.

Overall,kids whose friends suffered from bad moods were more____to report bad moods themselves- and they were less likely to have improved when they were screened again six months to a year later. When people had more happy friends,____,their moods were more likely to improve over time.

Some symptoms related to depression-like helplessness,tiredness and loss of interest-also seemed to follow this____,which scientists call “social contagion.”But this isn't something that people need to ___,says lead author Robert Eyre,a doctoral student at the University of Warwick. Rather, it's likely just a “____empathetic response that we're all familiar with, and something we recognize by common sense,"he says. In other words,when a friend is going through a rough patch, it makes sense that you'll feel some of their ___,and it's certainly not a reason to stay away.

The study also found that having friends who were clinically depressed did not __     participants' risk of becoming depressed themselves. “Your friends do not put you at risk of illness," says Eyre,"so a good course of action is simply to____them."To boost both of your moods, he suggests doing things together that you both ___-and taking other friends along to further spread those good feelings,too.”

1.

A．keeping up

B．making off

C．hanging out

D．getting away

2.

A．Thankfully

B．Particularly

C．Hopefully

D．Totally

3.

A．increase

B．generate

C．delay

D．spread

4.

A．growing

B．previous

C．real

D．large-scale

5.

A．depression

B．anxiety

C．anger

D．friendship

6.

A．assessment

B．examination

C．analysis

D．exercise

7.

A．willing

B．reluctant

C．able

D．likely

8.

A．what's worse

B．as a result

C．on the other hand

D．in one word

9.

A．prediction

B．pattern

C．report

D．improvement

10.

A．worry about

B．look for

C．rely on

D．put forward

11.

A．social

B．normal

C．rough

D．certain

12.

A．symptoms

B．responses

C．recognition

D．pain

13.

A．eliminate

B．conceal

C．increase

D．sugarcoat

14.

A．enlighten

B．entertain

C．empower

D．support

15.

A．enjoy

B．understand

C．advise

D．permit