【推荐1】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

China is a big old country,     1    has a history of more than five thousand years. We are proud of     2     (it) culture and part of the culture even influences the world     3     (great), for example, the thought of Confucius(孔子). As Chinese economy develops very fast and plays     4    important role in the world, more and more     5     (foreign) learn Mandarin(普通话) in Confucius institutions.

The Chinese traditional culture can     6     (test) by the time. It unites the whole nation and no matter what kind of disaster comes, we will fight together for the country’s future. Today, many young people lose faith in traditional culture and they are crazy     7    the western culture. They follow the western fashion,     8     (think) we are old style. But some day, they     9     (realize) it is wrong     10    them to ignore traditional culture.

【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。

The Chinese language differs     1     western languages. It uses characters     2    (stand) for ideas, objects or deeds. Chinese words are often     3    (form) by putting together different characters. We can see the history of the Chinese language by looking at     4    these characters developed.

Chinese writing began thousands of years ago. The first Chinese characters     5    (be) drawings of physical objects. Some characters have been     6    (simple) and others have been made more difficult over time. However, as     7     whole, the characters have developed from drawings into standard form.

Not all characters were developed from drawings of objects. Some characters were made by     8     (combine) two or more characters together e.g. ‘rest’ and ‘prisoner’. Other characters were developed for directions and numbers. Many other Chinese characters were made by having one part of a character indicate the meaning and the other suggest the pronunciation.

In the 1950s the Chinese     9    (govern) introduced Chinese characters,     10     are widely used in China’s mainland now.

【推荐1】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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 or two words that best fit each blank.

Do you know how it is when you see someone yawn and you start yawning too? Or how hard it is to be among people laughing and not laugh yourself? Well, apparently it’s because we have mirror neurons (神经元) in our brains.

    1    (put) simply, the existence of mirror neurons suggests that every time we see someone else do something, our brains imitate it, whether or not we actually perform the same action. This explains a great deal about     2     we learn to smile, talk, walk, dance or play sports. But the idea goes     3     (far): mirror neurons not only appear     4    (explain) physical actions, they also tell us that there is a biological basis for the way we understand other people.

Mirror neurons can undoubtedly be found all over our brains, but especially in the areas     5     relate to our ability to use languages, and to understand how other people feel. Recently, researchers     6     (find) that mirror neurons relate strongly to language. A group of researchers previously discovered that     7    they gave people sentences to listen to (for example: “The hand took hold of the ball”), the same mirror neurons were triggered as when the action was actually performed (in this example, actually taking hold of a ball).

Any problems with mirror neurons     8     well result in problems with behavior. Much research suggests that people with social and behavioral problems have mirror neurons which are not fully functioning.

Research does mirror that neurons seems to provide us with even more information     9     (concern) how humans behave and interact. Indeed, it may turn out to be the equivalent     10     neuroscience of what Einstein’s theory of relativity was for physics. And the next time you feel the urge to cough in the cinema when someone else does—well, perhaps you’ll understand why.

【推荐3】How much sleep does a person need?We are all different.Some people need only three hours of sleep a day     1    others need ten hours or more.The_     2    (suggest) amount of sleep is 8 hours for people aged 18 to 21 and 7 hours for people over 21.As people get old,they need less sleep time,    3    decreases to 6.5 hours a night after age 65.

Most people have the experience where they sometimes cannot fall asleep at night.About one third of Americans have difficulty in    4    (fall) asleep.The name of this illness    5    (call) insomnia.This is not    6    modern disease.Many famous people in history had insomnia.    7    (actual),some of these people had special ideas    8    (make) them sleep.Benjamin Franklin,the famous statesman and    9    (invent),had four beds.He moved from one to another to make himself sleep.Mark Twain,the famous American humorist,had a different way.He    10    (lie) on his side across the end of the bed