【推荐1】Great books can do great things for you in your life. They________have for me and I use a simple method to make sure I don’t forget what I’ve learned from the best books I’ve read. It’s really simple and I highly________you give it a try.

First, as I read, I________the best points made by the author, the ones that jump out at (一下子吸引) me and instruct,________and motivate me. Next, I make a________in the front or back of the book, with the page number and a short summary of what________me as a real gem (宝石). After I have finished the book, I________all the page numbers and quotes (引用) onto a fancy notebook. Then, anytime I need a mental, emotional or motivational push, I quickly and easily________my notes of a particular book. It’s easy and simple.

My mentor Paul J. Meyer said, “It’s better to________or review over and over, 20 or 30 or 100 great books than to read 1,000________books.” I have never forgotten that and it has ________my life and dreams very well.

In________the notebook, I see my notes on books like, “Satisfaction” “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway” “The Power of Now”, to________just a few. All these will________me of the time I read the books and the________I got from the author. Of course, I can also share the insight I develop from the book with my readers.

【推荐2】And that’s what she did. The next day, and the next.

Every day while Kate was ________ with her dad in hospital, she would read aloud to him while he ________ and listened. He would often have his eyes shut but he promised he wasn’t ________ and could hear every ________. Dad seemed as eager as she was to find out what happened in the next ________.

Now and again a nurse might make the rounds of the ________. But Kate’s dad just told her to ________ reading. Maybe he really was appreciating the book as much as he said. She had never felt so ________ to her father as she did when sitting reading to him. When she did at last come to the end of the book, she ________ her father she’d be back with another one the next day. But she never did get to read ________. Because that was the night he ________.

Days later Kate walked to a ________ with that book in her bag. It was a beautiful sunny day, but the world felt horribly lonely without her dad. Kate thought about the book. She knew books could bring us readers much. They could be exciting, or romantic, or scare us. They could either challenge us or help us. They could also take us all around the world, and ________. So much. So very much. Kate thought books should be ________. Then she stood up and walked away, ________ the book in the park. She hoped whoever read it next enjoyed it as much as her dad had.

【推荐3】You may know the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” It _________ the idea behind the Living Library project. Like _________ library, a Living Liberty offers readers books, except that these “books” can _________ to you. But these living books are not like anything from a(n) _________ movie — they are people like you and me.

The Living Library project was started in 2000 by a group of young people in Denmark. They wanted to reduce _________ and encourage understanding between people, and they had the idea of bringing together some very different people to communicate _________. These living books were from different cultural backgrounds, nations, educational levels, religions and _________.

Reading living books is very _________: Each book can talk with readers face to face, and sometimes a small group of readers can read one book together. The book and the reader(s) _________ and share different thoughts, ideas, lifestyles and so on.

The project began to gain in __________ in other parts of the world and was introduced to China in 2009. This past April, a wave of Living Library events was held in more than 20 Chinese cities. In Guangzhou, for example, 50 living books were presented to 200 readers.

The event was divided into four rounds; each lasted 40 minutes. In each round, __________ eight readers would read one book together. One of the living books, Tang, suffered from depression. She talked about her experience of fighting depression and also pointed out a problem: People’s __________ about mental illnesses was preventing many patients from getting treatment in time.

In Living Library events like this one, it is not one person __________ another, but someone introducing others to a different idea or way of life. Everyone can raise questions and everyone is __________.

“Everyone is a book,” said Liu Qiongxiong, the organizer of the event in Guangzhou. “By reading others we can better understand each other and__________.”

【推荐2】It’s common to post on social media to keep a record of the fun things you do. Although social media has its positive aspects, it can also have some serious _______ results. For example, have you ever been bored and decided to check social _______, only to find out that your best friend is at the Great Wall, one of your classmates is eating delicious noodles at your _______ restaurant, and one of your basketball teammates is visiting the giant pandas in Sichuan? Oh! You’re really _______! At least that’s what you might think.

Have you ever had that feeling that others are experiencing things and enjoying life _______than you are? Researchers call that feeling the fear of missing out or FOMO.

FOMO is a real _______ that over 75% of young people are experiencing from time to time. Social media is the cause, because it’s so easy today to _______ through to see what your friends are doing, eating, buying and talking about. _______, it would be impossible to enjoy all the same activities we see others take part in on social media. Rather than _______ this basic truth, though, we often let FOMO lead us to compare our lives to those of others on social media. This ________ leaves us feeling dissatisfied. Why? We know all the aspects of our lives—both good and bad. But all we see on social media are the ________ moments others share. FOMO makes us check social media more frequently, leading to a negative cycle that can be hard to ________ . Researchers have found that social media and FOMO can cause feelings of ________, loneliness and boredom. Researchers advise that we stop looking for ________ on social media. If we let FOMO ________ us, the only thing we’ll really be missing out on is our own life. And life’s too short for that.

【推荐3】Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

The word "adolescence" literally means "growing up" （from the Latin adolescere）. _________, it describes a distinct stage between childhood and adulthood, but in practice often simply defines the "teenage" years. In most Western societies, the idea of adolescence was not _________ until the 20 th century; childhood ended and adulthood began at a certain age – typically at 18.

G. Stanley Hall, a psychologist and educator, in his 1904 book Adolescence, was the first to explore the _________. Hall was influenced by Darwin's theory of evolution, perceiving that all childhoods, especially with regard to behavior and early physical development, reflect the course of _________ change, and that we each develop in accordance with our "ancestral record".

One key influence on Hall was the 18^th -century "Sturm and Drang" （Storm and Stress） movement of German writers and musicians, which promoted total freedom of expression. Hall _________ adolescence as "Sturm and Drang"; he considered it a stage of emotional disturbance and rebellion, with behavior ranging from quiet moodiness to wild _________. He stated that adolescents "are eager for strong feelings and new sensations, while routine and detail are _________". Awareness of self and the environment greatly increases; everything is more _________ felt, and sensation is pursued for its own sake.

Many of Hall's findings are _________ in research today. Hall believed that adolescents are highly affected by depression and described a "curve of despondency（消沉）" that starts at the age of 11, _________ at 15, then falls steadily until the age of 23. Modern research acknowledges a similar pattern. The causes of depression that Hall _________ are surprisingly familiar: suspicion of being disliked and having seemingly insuperable character faults, and "the _________ of hopeless love". He believed the self-consciousness of adolescence leads to criticizing self and others. This view mirrors later studies, which argue that teenagers' advanced _________ skills allow them to "read between the lines", while also intensifying their sensitivity to situations. Even Hall's claim that criminal activity is more common in the teenage years, reaching the top around 18, still _________.

However, Hall was not totally negative about adolescence. "Adolescence is a new _________," as he wrote in Youth: Its Education, Regiment, and Hygiene, "for the higher and more completely human qualities are how born."