【推荐1】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. individuals        B. affected        C. discouraging       D. occupation       E. strive       F. obstacles     G. figure             H. legendary       I. conquer               J. biased             K. character

Growing up, we often get asked the question: “What do you want to be in the future?” Our answers usually start off as: “police officer, scientist, astronaut. . . ” As we get a bit older, it becomes “doctor, lawyer, engineer, the next Steve Jobs . . . ” While these are great goals to     1     towards, we must remember that a(n)     2     does not define who we are. What is arguably more important than wealth is one’s strength of     3     .

We always admire the most successful Internet entrepreneurs of the 21st century, the     4     who took an idea and built it into an empire. However, few of us really look at the price they paid to get there. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, one of the youngest and richest tech billionaires in the world, pushed out one of his best friends and co-founders(with good reason) in order to receive funding for Facebook. Steve Jobs, another beloved     5     in the technology industry, refused to recognize his young daughter until she was nine years old, and even after Jobs later reconciled(和解) with her, the two had a shaky(不稳固的) relationship to the end of his days. We cannot say how much these decisions     6     their respective paths towards success, but they do represent many of the difficult choices that may lay ahead.

On May 4, Chinese video site Bilibili released a video containing 955 different statements made by middle school students from across China. The students stated the types of person they did not wish to become when they grew up. “I don’t want to be an unfaithful person. I don’t want to be a     7     person. I don’t want to be a person who gives up halfway . . . ” A large part of me wishes that all of these hopeful statements would come true, but as many great success stories have shown us, life’s     8     will change the way we think and act from the time we are students to whoever it is we later become as adults. These statements indicate a very idealistic, but naive(天真的) way of looking at the process of growing up.

I do not mean to suggest that I am     9     anyone from thinking along the lines of the above student statements, as they ultimately provide a great starting point for how we would hope every person would think and act. However, I would encourage a different way of thinking. As the     10     author Maya Angelou once said: “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. ” Life does not stand still while you run along its course, so you must learn as you go.

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When I saw some students dominated by alcohol，tobacco or drug，I made up my mind to help them “delete” the bad habits.To facilitate a positive change was why I set up a team which was     1    of surgeons，specialists in psychology，consultants and dentists，who would regularly deliver speeches to     2    these students’ awareness of physical health.Students were repeatedly informed of some tips on how to get out of a pessimistic or negative state，how to stay dynamic and how to get     3    when they were stressed out or worn out.To these students，to be examined on a monthly basis was necessary.They were also advised to participate in bowling matches，go to skateboarding or go to see a comedy to stimulate their enthusiasm in life.Students were given sugary cookies or nuts straight away if they felt     4    or got the flu.Through these activities，most students     5     changing their bad habits in reward for our help.They would rely on self-discipline to govern themselves and could be     6    in studying instead of skipping classes.They promised to behave themselves in response to our patient guidance.

【推荐2】Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. stems     B. insecure       C. squeezed     D. individual       E. glued     F. spreading G. head     H. simply        I. distracting        J. spacious     K. originally

You’ll Often Walk Alone

There has been a quiet pandemic (流行病) developing while most people’s attention has been on Covid-19. The lockdown has worsened a problem that has been     1     in many developed nations for decades: loneliness.

Part of the problem     2     from contemporary employment. Globally, two in five office workers feel lonely at work. This rises to three in five in Britain. Gig-economy (零工经济) jobs can leave people with     3     incomes and without the companionship of colleagues. The pandemic has made it more difficult to make, and maintain, friendships, particularly for new employees. Even before the crisis, the hope that     4     offices would encourage greater camaraderie (友情) proved to be false. Many people find the chatter     5     and withdraw with noise-canceling headphones. They then email colleagues who are sitting only a few desks away.

Perhaps loneliness relates to human history. Mass urbanization is a relatively recent development; if the history of human existence was     6     into a single day, the Industrial Revolution did not occur until almost midnight. For much of that time, humans lived in small groups of hunter-gatherers; cities may just overwhelm the senses. Ms. Hertz points her finger at a recent development: social media. The internet has led too much cyber-bullying (although it has also been a source of companionship during the lockdown). And people     7     to their smart phones spend less time interacting socially.

Some changes in behavior are owing to     8     choice. Before the pandemic no one was stopping people going to church or taking part in sports. They     9     preferred to do other things. Indeed, one reason for the decline in communal activities is that men choose to be with their families rather than     10     to the bar; American fathers spend three times as much time with their children as they did in the 1960s. That is surely a welcome development. So recreating a communal society may be difficult.

【推荐3】Complete her diary with the correct tense of the following phrases.

dress appropriately                  catch my eye                 make an effort             fall asleep put up decorations                  take a seat                      get together                 prepare food and snacks

It was a wonderful night! I’m too excited to     1     David, my new classmate from London invited me to his party. I felt excited but also a little nervous because l didn’t know the rules for attending a party held by someone from England. Therefore, days before the party, I started to prepare. I     2     to find some tips online about how to     3    , what things to bring and how to socialise with others. Some advice was really helpful. As it was an informal party, I wore a T-shirt and jeans. I also     4     and took them to the party. Happily, people enjoyed the food brought very much.

When I entered David’s house, what     5     first was the word “Welcome”, made from many colourful balloons. David and his friends also     6     on the wall. They were beautiful. David was very kind and asked me to     7     I knew many other exchange students there. They told me lots of interesting things about London. also introduced many famous places and food in China. We had pizza for dinner. It tasted good. After dinner, everyone     8    and played a card game. It was one of the best parties I have ever attended.