【推荐1】I spent two months with an American family last year when I studied in America.

It is said, “The best house is in America, the best wife is in Japan, and the best food is in China.” So I took pride （自豪） and _______ to _______“the best food” for my American family. Each day, regardless of my poor skill of cooking, I would do something in _______way: changing the dishes’ colour, the meat’s type or the soup’s style. Thus, my American friends could discover the _______ of eating Chinese food. Because of my “_______” job, I was often rewarded （奖励） by their _______ of appreciation （感激）such as “very delicious”, “excellent”, etc.

But the joke was here: Yesterday, I cooked Sichuan style _______ for dinner. I was _______ at my achievement.（成就）

When all the family members arrived at the table, they first looked _______at the fish, then looked at me. “Why do all the fish have their ________?” they asked, “It’s terrible!”

Terrible or beautiful? I don’t know. But I __________ know that fish heads are delicious. The __________ is the best part of fish; in __________only the respectable （受敬重的）guest can have the special honour of __________ it.

Another __________ thing is: The American friends often said to me “__________” as they __________ fruits or other things. According to Chinese tradition I would simply smile in answer to their kindness __________ actually helping myself to any of the food. __________, I said “help yourself” to them whenever I brought home fruits. Dear me, no matter how much or how often I brought home food, as long as it was nice to their taste, they __________ hesitated （犹豫）to use their hands to “help themselves” until all was finished

1.

A．worry

B．attention

C．delight

D．pleasure

2.

A．buy

B．fetch

C．cook

D．leave

3.

A．their

B．a new

C．the same

D．a simple

4.

A．way

B．joy

C．trouble

D．importance

5.

A．hard

B．daily

C．good

D．new

6.

A．expressions

B．flowers

C．talk

D．smile

7.

A．meat

B．fish

C．soup

D．egg

8.

A．praised

B．pleased

C．good

D．surprised

9.

A．happily

B．excitedly

C．surprisedly

D．worriedly

10.

A．bones

B．skins

C．tails

D．heads

11.

A．do

B．will

C．want to

D．should

12.

A．tail

B．head

C．soup

D．flesh

13.

A．fact

B．China

C．USA

D．the West

14.

A．enjoying

B．looking at

C．playing with

D．cooking

15.

A．real

B．exciting

C．interesting

D．easy

16.

A．please help us

B．excuse me

C．help yourself

D．eat them please

17.

A．brought home

B．wanted

C．were buying

D．were eating

18.

A．not

B．but not

C．without

D．nor

19.

A．At last

B．Above all

C．After all

D．In return

20.

A．usual

B．often

C．never

D．had

【推荐2】Everyone needs water and a diet of healthy foods. These foods should _________ some fat, some fiber, a little salt and so on.

People need energy to live. They eat all kinds of foods _________ change into energy. Our bodies use different _________ of energy. The energy is measured in calories (卡路里). The more_________ we take, the more calories we burn. Even when you are _________, you are using energy — about 65 calories an hour. While you are at school, or walking home, your body is _________ up 100 calories an hour. When playing football or basketball, you might be using 400 calories an hour. On Sports Day, during the relay race, you will use most of all, perhaps as _________ as 650 calories an hour.

The Chinese diet is considered to be the healthiest in the world. It contains a lot of fruit and green vegetables. It is _________ in fiber and low in sugar and fat. The Chinese eat less sugar than many other countries in the world. That is _________ lots of people in China have white teeth.

People in the Western world do not eat such healthy foods. They eat too much fat and sugar and don’t take __________ exercise. Because of this, they __________ very easily. In order to________ with the quick pace (步伐) of their life and work, they eat a lot of fast food. They eat a lot of sweets, soft drinks, potato crisps, chocolate, butter and ice cream and so on, which are called________ food by some epicureans (美食家). The result is that many of them become fat. In order to avoid __________ fat and __________ it is advisable (明智的) to eat a balanced diet and not eat too many foods that have a high calorie rating.

1.

A．include

B．hold

C．contain

D．make up

2.

A．which

B．what

C．where

D．it

3.

A．numbers

B．amounts

C．plenty

D．deal

4.

A．exercise

B．exercises

C．sport

D．game

5.

A．sleepy

B．running

C．working

D．asleep

6.

A．running

B．adding

C．burning

D．wasting

7.

A．much

B．many

C．few

D．little

8.

A．poor

B．low

C．rich

D．plenty

9.

A．why

B．because

C．because of

D．since

10.

A．a number of

B．too much

C．masses of

D．enough

11.

A．lose weight

B．put on weight

C．die

D．stay healthy

12.

A．keep up

B．carry on

C．keep on

D．go on

13.

A．bad

B．diseased

C．healthy

D．junk

14.

A．to get

B．becoming

C．to become

D．get

15.

A．keep thin

B．keep fit

C．stay calm

D．fall ill

【推荐3】Our family moved to America ten years ago. One day I came home after school, _______. I asked my mom to no longer put Middle Eastern food in my _______. She and my father became quiet. Through questioning, my mother made me tell the _______ that the other students had given me a very _______       time because my _______was different. So I       _______. “From now on, could we do peanut butter on Wonder Bread and an apple?” My brother and sister said they’d like the same because they had also _______ it.

There were no African Americans or Asians in our school. I thought there was _______ from India or Latin America, either. It was _______ a community based on their ________ religion and culture. Among them, our family seemed ________. My father’s family was from Syria; my mom’s from Palestine. Our food was different; we had holiday customs like nobody else. All these ________us from others.

A week later the teacher announced that we should not bring lunches the following day. To my ________, the next day at lunch, in came my mother with boxes of Middle Eastern food. The teacher ________ her, “ This is Mrs. Nimen, Tom’s mom.” She took out the food and started ________ the kids Kibble—a baked dish. She had ________ baked bread for the class to take home. She made the kids very excited, who were ________ everything I was eating a week earlier. ________ here they were ________ my mother’s food!

My mother did the same thing afterwards in my brother’s and sister’s classes. Though this didn’t end the racial problem, it made a (an) ________. She was a pioneer of diversity, using Middle Eastern friendliness in an artful way.

1.

A．proud

B．upset

C．satisfied

D．hungry

2.

A．breakfast

B．lunch

C．supper

D．dessert

3.

A．joke

B．tale

C．truth

D．lie

4.

A．difficult

B．short

C．pleasant

D．unforgettable

5.

A．look

B．family

C．food

D．belief

6.

A．decided

B．ordered

C．insisted

D．requested

7.

A．experienced

B．remembered

C．refused

D．heard

8.

A．somebody

B．nobody

C．everybody

D．anybody

9.

A．mainly

B．usually

C．particularly

D．extremely

10.

A．favored

B．shared

C．concerned

D．achieved

11.

A．strange

B．poor

C．rich

D．happy

12.

A．freed

B．removed

C．protected

D．distinguished

13.

A．relief

B．delight

C．knowledge

D．amazement

14.

A．greeted

B．approached

C．introduced

D．congratulated

15.

A．cooking

B．serving

C．selling

D．lending

16.

A．even

B．still

C．often

D．ever

17.

A．taking charge of

B．getting rid of

C．making fun of

D．catching hold of

18.

A．And

B．But

C．Or

D．So

19.

A．expecting

B．enjoying

C．wasting

D．distributing

20.

A．effort

B．attempt

C．discovery

D．difference

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        Every person needs water and a diet of healthy foods. These foods should ____ some fat, some fiber, a little salt and so on.
        People need energy ____ .They eat different kinds of food which change into energy. The energy is ____ in calories. Even when you ____ , you are using energy — about 65 calories an hour. ____ you are at school, or walking home, your body is burning up 100 calories an hour. When playing football or basketball, you ____ be using 400 calories an hour. ____ Sports Day, during the relay race, you will use most of all, ____ as much as 650 calories an hour.
        The Chinese diet is considered to be the healthiest in the world. It contains a lot of fruit and green vegetables. It is ____ in fiber and low in sugar and fat. The Chinese eat ____ sugar than many other countries in the world. That is ____ lots of people in China have healthy white teeth.
        People in the Western world do not eat such healthy foods. They eat ____ fat and sugar and don’t take enough ____. Because of this, they ____ weight very easily. Their diet contains a lot of fat in the ____ of potato crisps, potato chips, butter, cream and chocolate. They eat a lot of sugar ____ exists in cakes, soft drinks, ____ and so on.
        The result is that many of them become fat. ____ some have bad teeth. In some parts of Britain, one person in ten, ____ the age of thirty, has had no teeth ____ .1.

A．include

B．contain

C．keep

D．gain

2.

A．for life

B．to live

C．to live in

D．for a living

3.

A．measuring

B．taken

C．measured

D．measure

4.

A．are asleep

B．fall asleep

C．go to sleep

D．go to bed

5.

A．While

B．During

C．Although

D．If

6.

A．must

B．can’t

C．need

D．might

7.

A．At

B．On

C．In

D．With

8.

A．surely

B．usually

C．perhaps

D．hardly

9.

A．rich

B．poor

C．good

D．bad

10.

A．more

B．larger

C．less

D．smaller

11.

A．how

B．why

C．what

D．that

12.

A．much too

B．many too

C．too many

D．too much

13.

A．exercises

B．food

C．work

D．exercise

14.

A．put on

B．gain on

C．get on

D．put up

15.

A．type

B．form

C．kind

D．sort

16.

A．what

B．which

C．as

D．whose

17.

A．sweets

B．sweet

C．candy bar

D．sweet thing

18.

A．But

B．Or

C．And

D．So

19.

A．at

B．for

C．with

D．by

20.

A．left

B．leave

C．leaving

D．to leave

【推荐3】Everyone needs water and a diet of healthy foods. These foods should contain some fat, some fiber, a little salt and so on.

People need energy to live. They eat all kinds of foods _________ change into energy. Our bodies use different amounts (数量) of energy. The energy is measured in calories (卡路里). The more _________ we take, the more calories we burn. Even when you are _________, you are using energy — about 65 calories an hour. While you are at school, or walking home, your body is _________ up 100 calories an hour. When playing football or basketball, you might be using 400 calories an hour. On Sports Day, during the relay race, you will use most of all, perhaps as much as 650 calories an hour.

The Chinese diet is considered to be the healthiest in the world. It contains a lot of fruit and green vegetables. It is _________ in fiber and low in sugar and fat. The Chinese eat less sugar than many other countries in the world. That is 36 lots of people in China have white teeth.

People in the Western world do not eat such healthy foods. They eat too much fat and sugar and don’t take _________ exercise. _________ this, they _________ very easily. In order to _________ with the quick pace (步伐) of their life and work, they eat a lot of fast food. They eat a lot of sweets, soft drinks, potato crisps, chocolate, butter and ice cream and so on, which are called __________ food by some epicureans (美食家). The result is that many of them become fat. In order to avoid becoming fat and keep fit it is advisable (明智的) to eat a balanced diet and not eat too many foods that have a high calorie rating.

1.

A．which

B．what

C．where

D．it

2.

A．exercise

B．energy

C．sport

D．game

3.

A．sleepy

B．running

C．working

D．asleep

4.

A．running

B．adding

C．burning

D．wasting

5.

A．poor

B．low

C．rich

D．plenty

6.

A．a number of

B．too much

C．masses of

D．enough

7.

A．why

B．because

C．because of

D．since

8.

A．lose weight

B．put on weight

C．die

D．stay healthy

9.

A．keep up

B．carry on

C．keep on

D．go on

10.

A．bad

B．diseased

C．healthy

D．junk

【推荐2】Every summer a great many students travel to other countries looking for work and adventure. Most of the_________are in seasonal work, mainly connected with tourism and_______.

The pay is usually poor, but most people work abroad for the_______of travel. You can pick grapes on farms in France, entertain kids on American summer camps, and, of course, there are_______jobs in hotels and restaurants.

But it is not easy now to find work. “_______you speak the language of the country well, there will be very few openings,” says Althea Ellis, an adviser in_______for students.

“If you work with a family in Italy, you’ll have to speak Italian. When you wash dishes in a restaurant in Pairs, the owner will expect you to speak_______. British students only have a language_______for jobs in the USA and Australia.”

_______enjoys the experience. Sarah James was employed to help forty American children in Europe. The two teachers with the children had never been________.One child lost his passport; another became seriously ill and was________home; the whole group was thrown out of one hotel because of the__________they made, and what’s worse, Sarah herself was robbed on her only________evening of the entire trip. “I did visit a lot of new places,” she says,“but it wasn’t worth it. The pay was________and it really was a 24-hour-a-day job. The kids never slept!”

“The trouble is that students expect to have a(n)________time of it.” Althea Ellis points out. “After all, they see it as a________. In practice,________, you have to work hard. At the same time, all vacation work is casual (临时的) work. You’ll have a job when the hotel, the restaurant, or the campsite is busy. In the other words, you’ll work if it’s convenient for the company that________you. But you have________employment rights. As soon as the holiday season________, they’ll get rid of you.”

1.

A．works

B．challenges

C．changes

D．hardships

2.

A．service

B．industry

C．business

D．science

3.

A．pains

B．comfort

C．difficulty

D．excitement

4.

A．always

B．hardly

C．never

D．seldsom

5.

A．If

B．Unless

C．Because

D．Although

6.

A．health care

B．vacation work

C．language studies

D．tourist safety

7.

A．Italian

B．English

C．French

D．Spanish

8.

A．chance

B．ability

C．possibility

D．advantage

9.

A．No one

B．None

C．Not everyone

D．Everybody

10.

A．abroad

B．employed

C．sad

D．respected

11.

A．driven

B．ridden

C．left

D．flown

12.

A．friends

B．decisions

C．noise

D．destruction

13.

A．busy

B．free

C．tiring

D．pleasant

14.

A．nice

B．reasonable

C．fair

D．poor

15.

A．hard

B．easy

C．difficult

D．ordinary

16.

A．holiday

B．job

C．festival

D．study

17.

A．besides

B．therefore

C．however

D．meanwhile

18.

A．fires

B．employs

C．recommends

D．appreciants

19.

A．few

B．little

C．all

D．much

20.

A．starts

B．lasts

C．approaches

D．finishes

【推荐3】One big difference between British and American English is in vocabulary. For example, the British use the word “autumn”_______the Americans use the word “fall”. In this case, the older word is “autumn”. However, about four hundred years ago, the word “autumn” was_______with “fall”. Later, the British returned to “autumn”, while the_______still use “fall”.

Of course, people from many different countries came to America and made their_______to American English. Indeed, in American English there are words from every major_______spoken on Earth. Many of these words are absent in British English.

_______big distinction between American and British English is spelling. After the Americans defeated the British in 1781 and_______independence, they wanted to make their spelling of English words_______Therefore, Americans write “color”_______“colour”.

Finally, the pronunciations and accents are different. Both countries have slowly________the way they say the same words, but in different ways. This process is continuing even today.

1.

A．while

B．when

C．as

D．though

2.

A．carried

B．replaced

C．brought

D．taken

3.

A．Chinese

B．Germans

C．Americans

D．Europeans

4.

A．contributions

B．inventions

C．donations

D．products

5.

A．job

B．book

C．dictionary

D．tongue

6.

A．The other

B．Another

C．Other

D．Others

7.

A．observed

B．lost

C．gained

D．threw

8.

A．shorter

B．simpler

C．harder

D．gentler

9.

A．instead of

B．in case of

C．in favor of

D．in spite of

10.

A．used

B．chosen

C．made

D．changed