【推荐1】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Chinese Structural biologist Yan Ning, an outstanding female scientist, announced on November 1^st that she would resign from Princeton University in the US and join in the establishment of Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART) in the near future.

“In the near future, I will return to China full-time to assist in establishing     1     new research and development institution in Shenzhen,     2     is called SMART, combining several functions     3    (include) scientific research, transformation, student development and     4    (finance) support together,” Yan said at the Shenzhen Global Innovation Talent forum.

While teaching at Tsinghua University in 2014, Yan Ning, with her team, made efforts     5    (analyze) the three-dimensional crystal structure of GLUT1     6     the first time. When the achievement     7    (publish) in Nature, it immediately received widespread attention and praise from the international academic community.

Yan earned her Ph.D. at Princeton in 2004     8     returned in 2017 as the first Shirley M. Tilghman professor of Molecular Biologist (雪莉·蒂尔曼终身讲席教授). Yan said she wanted to support more outstanding scholars and tackle the various health     9    (threat) facing mankind. Shenzhen offered the right opportunity, and the city can build     10    (it) place in the global biomedicine field, Yan said.

【推荐2】阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

A

I have the    1    (great)job in the world. I travel to unusual places and work alongside people from all over the world. Sometimes using    2    (science)equipment and sometimes meeting local people and tourists, I am never    3    (bore).Although my job is occasionally dangerous, I don’t mind because danger excites me and makes me feel alive. However, the most important thing about my job is that I help protect ordinary people    4     one of the most powerful forces on earth—the volcano.

B

Water is a precious resource. Every person needs it    5     (survive),and we use it for cooking, drinking, growing our food and washing. However，it is scarce(缺乏的).Just 1% of water on Earth can    6     (use)by humans. What’s more，treating water to make it clean and safe and pumping it to our homes uses up lots of energy. So, what can you do to help save water? One easy way is by    7    (turn)off the tap when you brush your teeth.

C

Robbie Phillips has become the first British person to complete one of the toughest challenges in rock climbing.     8    (know)as the Alpine Trilogy(阿尔卑斯三部曲),the challenge consists of three climbs on mountains in Austria, Germany and Switzerland,     9    Phillips completed in four years. Until now, only four other people    10    (conquer)all three of the extremely difficult climbs.

【推荐3】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Have you ever seen films in which an airplane crashed or a warship     1     (sink) into the deep ocean? If so, you may have wondered how these things could happen     2     harming the people in the film.

The man who knows the secret is the “special-effects” man, who has one of the most important jobs in the film industry. He may be ordered     3     (create) a flood or to make a battlefield explode. But he may also design a special effect which is much less exciting, though just as important to the     4     (succeed) of the film.

In a scene from one movie there was a big glass bowl filled with water     5     small fish were swimming. The director of the movie wanted the fish to stop swimming suddenly while they seemed to stare at an actor. Then the director wanted the fish to stop staring and swim away,     6     the fish cannot be programmed to do this action. It was quite     7     problem. The special-effects man thought about this problem for a long time. The result was an idea for controlling the fish with a harmless use of electricity. First, he applied electricity to the fish bowl, and caused the fish to be     8     (absolute) still. Then he rapidly reduced the amount of electricity,     9     (allow) the fish to swim away. Thus he produced the     10     (humor) effect the director wanted. All this requires training, skill, and experience.

【推荐2】Directions: After reading the passage 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.

Over the past several decades, the U.S., Canada, and Europe have received a great deal of media and even research attention over unusual phenomena and unsolved mysteries. These include UFOs as well as sightings and encounters     1     “nonhuman creatures” such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. Only recently has Latin America begun to receive some attention as well.     2     the mysteries of the Aztec, Mayan, and Inca civilizations have been known for centuries, now the public     3     (become) aware of unusual, paranormal phenomena in countries such as Peru.

The Nazca “lines” of Peru    4     (discover) in the 1930s. These lines are deeply carved into a flat, stony plain, and form about 300 intricate pictures of animals such as birds, a monkey and a lizard.     5     (see) at ground level, the designs are a jumbled senseless mess. The images are so large that they can only be viewed at a height of 1,000 feet -     6     (mean) from an aircraft. Yet there were no aircraft in 300 B.C., when it is judged the designs were made.     7     were there then, or are there now, any nearby mountain ranges from     8     to view them. So how and why did the native people of Nazca create these marvelous designs? One answer appeared in 1969, when the German researcher and writer Erich von Daniken proposed     9     the lines were drawn by extraterrestrials as runways for their aircraft. The scientific community did not take long to laugh at and abandon von Daniken’s theory. Over the years several other theories have been put forth, but     10     has been accepted by the scientific community.

Today there is a new and heightened interest in the Nazac lines. It is a direct result of the creation of the Internet. Currently there are over 60 sites dedicated to this mystery from Latin America’s past, and even respected scientists have joined in the discussion through e-mail and chat rooms.

Will the Internet help explain these unsolved mysteries? Perhaps it is a step in the right direction.

【推荐3】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

When we compare ourselves with great people, we may feel we are very ordinary and unimportant.     1    , we must remember that those great people are extraordinary. The world has more than 6 billion people,     2    it is difficult for all of us to be extraordinary. What can we do? We can try to be the     3    (good) people that we can possibly be.

This means that we need to be honest and hard-working. We also need to be open-minded and kind to other people. Most     4    (importance), we need to be ambitious. We need to always set goals for     5    and work hard to achieve these goals.

Madam Curie and Thomas Edison were hard-working, kind and ambitious, and they     6    (work) hard to achieve their goals. Curie gave her life to ＂ease human suffering＂. Edison spent his life as an inventor. He invented a camera     7    showed movement. Later people used cameras to make modern films.

A famous writer from Ireland once wrote, ＂We are all in the gutter (贫民区) but some of us are looking at     8    stars.＂ I often come up with this when I am unable to achieve something. It reminds me that we are all at a lower level     9    that we all have a     10    (high) goal to work towards. It makes me try to be the best person that I can possibly be.