【推荐2】选词填空

die out, for the first time, bring... back to life, call on, participate in, lead to, side by side, be identical to, be devoted to, be recognized as

1. Several pages of the paper ________ an account of the election.
2. I’ll never forget hearing this piece of music ________.
3. They ________ the people of this country to work hard for national unity.
4. To our surprise, his appearance ________ his mother.
5. Have you ever ________ volunteer activities?
6. He once ________ one of the fastest runners in the world.
7. Foreign food aid ________ a drastic reduction in the number of people dying of starvation.
8. The flame in the fireplace burned unsteadily and then ________.
9. There were two children ahead, walking ________.
10. The child is dead. He can never ________. There is no point in finding fault with the mother.

【推荐3】根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

rent a car     focus on     apply for     take control of     fill in     make reservations for   come to power     lose contact with     other than     rather than

1. I’d like to ________two seats on your flight leaving at noon for Washington．
2. You should ________getting the main idea, not on single words or grammar．
3. After he graduated, his parents tried to persuade him to ________the well paid job．
4. Would you like to ________or find another means of travel in the city?
5. The Normans, who defeated England and ________the country in 1066，made the most contributions to Middle English．
6. He left home for work in 2000 and ________his family three years later．
7. The journey by road to Wolverhampton is not recommended to anyone ________the most experienced cyclist．
8. The president ________after the last election．
9. If you want to sign up for the swimming class, please look through the form and ________ the blanks．
10. This book is intended for the general readers________the students．

【推荐2】根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

A. desperate B. diverse C. apparent D. rough E.awkward

1. Sometimes the machine will go wrong without any ________ cause.
2. There was a time when people may have felt ________ about asking for a table for one, but those days are over.
3. Doctors were fighting a ________ battle to save the little girl’s life.
4. A/An ________ area is unpleasant and dangerous because there is a lot of violence or crime there.
5. As the world moves closer to become more of a global village, more people from ________ cultures than ever before are coming into contact with one another.

【推荐1】选词填空

chat with     have trouble       after all     in particular   settle for     come up with     in the lead be familiar to   have a frog in one’s throat   thanks to   turn to for help   come across in one’s free     make one’s fortune

1. The smell __________ everyone who lives near a bakery.
2. He has been on the computer all the morning __________ his friends.
3. If your kids ___________ keeping the room tidy or remenbering to shut the light when he hangs out with his friends, what will you do?
4. __________, explore all that this incredible city has to offer and you’ll soon fall in love with it.
5. ___________ the efforts of the pioneer, about 40 percent of US schools now offer computer science as a subject.
6. See if you can rework your schedule. Several of the members _______ practical suggestions of their own to reduce the number of hours you’re on call.
7. A lot of people say to me that they “tried” their best and then they simply ________ not achieving their goals and not getting the success they deserve.
8. I absent-mindedly turned the pages of the phone book and ________ a city map.
9. In the sports meeting, I came to the high jump. The athletes were spirited, energetic and full of confidence. One athlete ____________ deserved a mention.
10. When they faced the problems, the first one they _______ was their professor — an expert they could always trust.

【推荐3】根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

pick up,in response to,aside from,rely on,straight away,decide on,stress...out,stay up,after all,prevent...from

1. As you can see, preparing for the final exams ________me ________.
2. With so much homework to do, I will have to ________late tonight.
3. ________the opportunity to work with Jennifer Lopez,what attracted you to the project?
4. Sally ________a piece of chalk and wrote something on the blackboard.
5. It was some time before the door opened ________his ring.
6. Now that we are grown-up now, we can’t ________our parents for support.
7. When you see someone choked, you must give him first aid ________.
8. He ________roast chicken and vegetables, with an apple pie to follow.
9. There is no need to pick at him all day long. He’s a child ________.
10. Mr Brown is trying his best to ________his son ________abandoning himself to the Internet.

【推荐1】用下面方框中所给短语的正确形式填空

desperate to　connect to　end up in　set off give up　associate with　after all　beyond words

1. I cannot _______him _____such rude behaviour.
2. He committed several crimes and __________prison.
3. Don’t be too hard on him. ________, he is only a child.
4. He has been staying up these days, ___ get the work done before the deadline.
5. Will you ______your seat to the elders on the bus?
6. We were moved ____________watching his latest movie.
7. Can you ______me _____the office of the general manager?
8. The issue ______heated debate among the students.

【推荐3】用方框中的词或短语的正确形式填空，其中有两个多余选项。

be impressed with   be connected to   be concerned about   cross out   cheer up   lead to   put off     put up   suffer from   tell off   fall behind     make sense

1. You should always have a figured-out plan considering the tents location before ________ a tent.
2. All the judges and the audience ________ the deaf singer Mandy Harvey’s amazing performance at America’s Got Talent last Tuesday.
3. Humor is culturally based, and that’s why some jokes are well understood in one culture but not likely ________ in another.
4. Once a top student in his school, Tom, in the past few months, ________ his peers due to his pride and laziness.
5. When Bill ________ for not wearing a tie, he let off steam by telling his boss what he thought of her, which in turn made her mad.
6. ________ the patients who are in pain and low spirits, clown doctors do magic tricks, sing songs and tell them funny jokes.
7. From June to August, the long-lasting exceptionally high temperatures________ droughts in central and eastern parts of China.
8. Teenagers often listen to music by using earphones ________ their MP5, but in fact it’s bad for their hearing.
9. Smoking can add up to 1.25 years and ________ restless sleep can add 0.44 years to a person’s biological age, which means how old a person seems, according to the study.
10. You had better ________ all the needless words in your composition before you hand it in.