【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。
　　Yuan Longping,     1    (know) as the “father of hybrid rice”, is one of China’s most famous scientists. He was born in 1930 in Beijing. He realized that farmers often had poor harvests and sometimes even had a     2    (short) of food to eat, so he     3    (choose) to study agriculture and received an education at Southwest Agriculture College.

After graduation, Yuan devoted his life to     4    (find) ways to produce more rice. Through intense effort, he overcame enormous technical difficulties to develop the first hybrid rice     5    could be used for farming in 1974. This hybrid rice enabled farmers     6    (expand) their output greatly.

Today, it     7    (estimate) that about 60 percent of domestic rice consumption in China is comprised     8    crops generated from Yuan’s hybrid strains. Yuan’s innovation has helped feed not just China, but many other countries. Though Yuan’s hybrids have made him quite    9    (wealth), he cares little about money. Instead, he donates much money to support agriculture research. He doesn’t lead a life of leisure.     10    his advanced years, Yuan Longping is still young at heart and full of vision. Everyone is waiting to see what he will dream up next.

【推荐3】阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。

My name is Elias. I am     1     poor black worker in South Africa. The time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life. It was in 1952 and Mandela was the black lawyer, to whom I went for advice. He offered     2    (guide) to poor black people on their legal problems. He was generous with his time,     3    which I was grateful.

I needed his help     4     I had very little education. I began school as six. The school     5     I studied for only two years was three kilometers away. I had to leave because     6     (I) family could not continue to paid the school fees and the bus fare. I could not read or write well. After     7    (try) hard, I got a job in a gold mine.     8    , this was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg.     9    (sad), I did not have it because I was not born there, and I worried about whether I     10    (become) out of work.

【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。

On 20 December, a series of huge waves     1     (cause) by an earthquake resulted in many people’s deaths. Goldshore beach was the only local beach to survive the disaster. Sabrina,     2     was a girl of ten years old, helped about 100 people escape danger with her knowledge of tsunami.

That day, many people were walking, running or     3     (simple)sitting on the beach,     4     (enjoy) the warm sea air and the soft wind. Sabrina was one of the happy     5     (tourist) until she noticed something odd. It immediately occurred     6     her that these were signs of an approaching tsunami because she had just learnt about it in a Geography lesson.

At first, Sabrina was     7     (frighten), but she soon kept her head. She asked her parents     8     (inform) a safety officer. The officer realized the coming danger, and rapidly cleared the beach of people, just before     9     tsunami arrived. Thus, all the people on the beach     10     (save).

【推荐3】A student once asked his teacher, “What is Greed?” Instead of giving the answer directly, the teacher asked him     1     (go) through the chocolate factory nearby and pick the one chocolate he liked most. But he could not turn back as he passed through the factory.

The student went to the chocolate factory. As he walked through, he saw one chocolate     2     (wrap) nicely. He instantly liked it, but he said to     3     (he) that he might find a much bigger one further. So he walked on and saw another chocolate. But again, he thought     4     same. When he almost came to the end of the factory, he couldn’t see any chocolates as big as the one he didn’t pick     5     (early). He started to regret his decision of letting it go.

Finally, he went back to his teacher with an empty hand and gave an account of     6     he did. The teacher told him, “You did like the one chocolate very much, but still you kept looking for a bigger one. And later you realized that what you gave up     7     (be) the best chocolate you could find there. That     8     (call) Greed.”

We let go of many good things in our life because     9     our greed of having even better things. But in the search for better things, we let go of many good things that could have given us similar     10     (satisfy) and made us happy. Learn to make your choice wisely.