【推荐2】阅读下面材料，在空白处填人适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

When I first arrived in China four years ago, I was just an exchange student who     1     (speak) only English. Then at the end of the year-long program, I came up     2     the idea of finishing my high school studies there. I was really attracted by Chinese language, culture and history and delighted in my new future,     3     I neglected the academic challenge of competing school in Chinese language. It     4     (consider) by many to be one of the most difficult languages to learn. Once I even received the     5    (bad) mark in my class and people around me doubted I would ever graduate. In order to avoid     6    (lose) my confidence, I worked hard and was not afraid of my mistakes     7    (correct). On the day before my final examination, I took     8     small walk near my home, I played back everything     9     was related to my school life in China and people who helped me in my head. With the encouragement and great efforts, I     10     (eventual) passed it with a good grade.

【推荐3】语法填空

There was a time when I was tired     1     learning English and disliked to speak English. And this is the reason     2     which my father forced me to join in a 30-day training in an English club before I went to senior high school. When I first came to the club       3     I met many strangers. I missed my parents very much. So I packed up my things and wanted to go home. Fortunately, my guide     4     teacher was Li Yang, communicated with me face to face, from    5     I gained some useful instructions. He also showed me a good partner, and we got along well with each other. Gradually I adapted to the life there.Every day I would like to talk to other teenagers and set down a series of activities    6     we did.My father and the guide     7    encouraged me to fall in love with English should     8    (appreciate) Now I feel it interesting to learn English, into    9     I put my entire energy. Every day I will read my words and passages aloud.In class I will join in English discussions. Before I go to sleep, I will recall my passages, through     10    I can memorize a large number of new words. As our English teacher says, “As long as we form the habit of learning English every day and have perseverance, we will conquer English sooner or later.”

【推荐2】A greeting card is a printed message, or thought, which we send to other people. There is     1     (usual) a picture on the front and a message inside the card. The custom of sending greeting cards can date back     2     about 5000 B.C. Greeting cards also played     3     important part in the holiday of Valentine’s day     4     people would send messages to     5     sweethearts. The first printed cards were found in Europe in 1400’s. Europeans sent these     6     (card) as New Year’s greetings. The modern greeting card     7     (become) popular in the late 1800’s. Today greeting cards can     8     (find) for civil and religious holidays, anniversaries, birthdays and just about any occasion you can think of. With the     9     (develop) of technology, e-cards have appeared. More people are becoming interested in     10     (use) digital media instead of paper or other traditional materials.

【推荐3】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

IT WAS 1:00 a.m. in Tokyo. We’d got lost trying to find our Airbnb, and were now at an address that looked 90% right. There were keys in the letterbox,     1     our host said they’d be. So when the security code didn’t work, I just grabbed them out through the narrow hole with my hands.

But when I was turning the keys in the lock, the door opened. A lady and her daughter looked out at us,     2     (puzzle). Definitely not our Airbnb then. Amazingly though, they didn’t scream at us, call the police, or both. For the next 20 minutes, they tried to help us find the right ad dress. And when we turned up nothing, they formally apologized to us — the foreigners who     3     (try) to break into their home.

In Japan, there are many ways to apologize. The lady used “gomen-nasai,”     4     most people use the more casual “sumimasen.” Often translated as an apologetic “excuse me,” it     5     be heard in doorways, taxis, shops and restaurants in Japan.

“Only 10% of ‘sumimasen’ is an apology,”     6     Laurie Inokuma, who holds a degree in Japanese from Cornell University. “Ninety percent is used to show respect, politeness and honesty,” she said. “It’s an everyday word. When someone does something for you, getting out of your way in the grocery store, or holding a door, ‘sumimasen’ is the common response.”

Just as easily as a “thank you” or a “sorry”, “sumimasen” is regularly used to acknowledge the trouble someone has gone to for you. “There’s a modesty in it;     7     (depend) on the situation, it’s either apologetic or grateful,” Inokuma said.

Erin Niimi Longhurst, a British-Japanese author, agrees. “There’s a culture of apology but also a culture of thankfulness in Japan,” she said. This year’s World Cup is an example of this level of courtesy: When Japan lost its final match, the team made headlines when they stayed behind     8     (clean) the entire changing room. They even left a thank-you note.

If apologies are just one cog (齿轮) in the larger moving wheel of Japanese politeness, where does this cultural concept come from? “There is a need for politeness in Japan to get along with your neighbors living above you — it’s a respect for others,” Inokuma said. Japan has some of     9     (densely) packed cities in the world.     10     there’s a limit on space, it suddenly seems natural to become as considerate as possible.