【推荐2】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.

Bread, sauce, cheese and all kinds of toppings — pizza has become a favourite food around the world. But a group of New Jersey eighth-graders have bigger demands.

For an assignment in statistics class, the teacher asked students to improve a kind of food they all like. After a short discussion, they came to    1     agreement that they    2    (improve) pizza, a favourite food    3     the students. But how do you improve an already delicious product? “We decided to add everything we kids like and make    4     as crispy as possible,” said 14-year-old Matt Stephan.

The “ultimate (终极的)” pizza the students designed    5    (pack) full. The highlight of their pizza was the bacon topping and macaroni (意大利通心粉) and cheese-stuffed pretzel crust (椒盐脆饼皮).

The kids were so excited about their pizza    6     three of them sent the recipe over to the pizza designers at Pizza Hut. A few weeks later,    7     they walked into class, a note from Pizza Hut greeted the students.

“Here at Pizza Hut, we get ideas for new recipes sent to us all the time. The research and logic behind your product was definitely one that inspired us to respond. We believe this pizza has the potential    8    (make) it to the next level of customer research: a taste test.”

The note then leads the students to head down to their school multi-purpose room. There, the pretzel-bacon-macaroni-and-cheese pizza    9    (wait) for them. The kids were excited, and it was easy to see why. There is no doubt that it was    10    (exciting) thing to ever come out of a statistics class.

【推荐3】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

“Those who live by the mountains profit from mountains, and those who live by the water profit from water.” The Chinese     1    (novel) Feng Menglong wrote in his collection Stories to Awaken the World in the 17^th century,     2    (summarize) Chinese people’s attitude toward food. China’s southeastern coastal areas can add the sea to     3     list.

A common and affordable eat is oyster omelet, known as o-a-tsian of southeastern Fujian province, a street dish that     4    (combine) the fruits of the sea and the land-oysters, eggs and starch. Visitors to Fujian, Taiwan and the Chaoshan region, can find o-a-tsian in street stalls     5     early morning till late night.

Although it’s a mystery     6     local residents invented this dish, some vivid folktales give it a fanciful aura. One of them said Zheng Chenggong came up with the idea of deep frying the oysters coated with sweet potato starch     7    (feed) his army when the Dutch cut off their supply of rice, saving them from hunger and eventually driving the Dutch out.

    8    (recipe) for a o-a-tsian vary in Fujian, Taiwan and Chaoshan. When immigrants from these areas moved to some Southeast Asian countries, the dish     9    (adapt) with local ingredients.     10     each version of o-a-tsian always includes small oysters covered with sweet potato starch and egg batter.