【推荐2】Directions: After reading the passages 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 that best fits each blank.
Dear Sally,

I recently became engaged, I love my fiancé a lot but we are getting into a lot of arguments     1     our Wedding plans. I would prefer a small wedding, just our immediate family and closest friends. I think it is such a special moment and I only want the people who are most important to be near us. I don’t want to be surrounded by people not really     2    (care) about us. He wants the whole world to be there--- the mail carrier, the baker, the butcher!!! My fiancé says a wedding day is     3    (important) day in anyone’s life. He wants to share his joy with everyone.

It’s not a question whether we can afford it although I     4     worry about how much a wedding costs and I would rather save the money for a house. I dislike fighting but I just don’t feel comfortable with his plans.

——Nervous

Dear Nervous,

Planning weddings     5     be very stressful. Each person has clear ideas about     6     his or her “perfect” wedding would be. Each person has dreams and hopes for that day. Now it is a good time to practice compromising (妥协) with your husband-to-be.     7     one of you should be unhappy on your wedding day. If you get your way, your husband will be unhappy. If he gets his way, it sounds     8     you will be unhappy.

Why don’t the two of you talk about     9     compromise? Perhaps a medium-sized wedding? Perhaps two weddings--- a small intimate ceremony and a large reception? You     10    (have) to compromise many times in your married life. You both can start now.

——Sally

【推荐3】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。

Every year in the first week of my English class, some students inform me that writing is too hard. They never write, unless it     1    (require). They find the writing process painful and difficult.

How awful it is to be able to speak in a language but not to write in it—especially English, with its rich vocabulary. Being able to speak     2     not write is like living in an enormous house but never leaving one small room. When I meet students     3     think they can’t write, I know as a teacher my mission is to show them     4     rest of the rooms. My task is to build fluency and accuracy while     5    (provide)the opportunity in any writing activity to enhance the moral and emotional development of my students. One great way to do this is     6     having students write in a journal in class every day.

Writing ability is like strength training. Writing needs to be done     7    (day), just like exercise; just as muscles grow stronger with exercise, writing skills improve quickly with writing practice. I often see a rise in students'     8    (confident)and performance after only a few weeks of journal writing.

Expressing oneself in writing is one of the most important skills I teach     9    (strengthen)the whole students. When my students practice journal writing, they are practicing for their future     10    (profession)lives. They build skills so that some day they might write a great novel, a piece of news, or the perfect love letter.