【推荐1】When choosing a career, you should consider all the aspects of a job. Some jobs may seem very dull but are very important to society,     1     others can appear very exciting but are     2     (actual) very difficult and boring. One example is the so-called ‘glamorous job’ of being a model or     3     actor. Would you like     4     (be) famous, wear diamonds, go to parties and relax on cushions in private jets or helicopters? In reality, these people have to spend long hours travelling, with all their     5       (luggage) packed in suitcases or trunks, and only a very small number of them are successfully. Many actors, actresses and models hold ordinary,     6     (glamorous) jobs, often     7     (work) as waiters and waitresses, in order to support     8     (they). Meanwhile, those who are successful and famous have to deal with constant media attention. They are also     9     huge pressure to appear young and beautiful. Most actors and models are always on a diet, and many have had painful operations to make their faces and bodies look more attractive. It does not seem that glamorous now, does it? Maybe a career as a local grocer     10     (be) a better option.

【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.

One day a professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test. After hearing that, all students     1     (seat) and waited for the test to begin. The professor gave the test papers to all students with the text     2     (face) down at the desk. Once he handed out the test papers to all students, he asked them to turn the test pages and begin.

Students were confused to see there was not a question but just a black dot in the centre of the page. The professor     3     (notice) the students’ face expression and told them, “I want you to write about what you see there.”

The students were even more confused but started the test by then. At the end of the class, the professor     4     (take) all answer sheets and started reading each answer in front of all students. All of them described about the black dot,     5     position they tried to explain. After the professor finished reading, the whole class was silent.

The professor explained, “Don’t worry. I am not going to give you grades but I just want you to think about something. Here     6     focused on the black dot but no one wrote about the white paper, and the same is with our lives. The white paper represents our whole life and the black spot represents problems in our life.     7     our life is a gift given to us by God, with love and care, we have every reason to celebrate. Still we just focus on problems like health issues, problems in relationships etc., but we never see these problems are very small compared with     8     we have in our lives.”   

So there is the moral lesson: we     9     try to take eyes off our problems and enjoy each moment that life     10     (give) us. Be happy and live the life positively.

【推荐3】语法填空

Positive thinking does not mean you have to find every idea absolutely wonderful.

It     1     (do) mean you have to be ready to explore an idea and to try and bring out whatever good features it has. The next step might be to find the     2     (weak) in the idea and to try and strengthen them, rather than use them     3     (simple) as an excuse for rejecting the whole idea. Finally, the idea, after it     4     (explore), may not be used because there is a     5     (good) one or because, good     6     it is, it is not suitable. There is     7     (something) wrong with being positive about an idea at first and then rejecting     8     later, when you see that it won’t work.

It is easy to be negative and critical and too much talent is wasted in negative thinking. It is time we     9     (show) less respect for this kind of destructive thinking and focused     10     positive thinking more. So remember to think positively.

【推荐1】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

There once were a goat and a donkey that lived     1     a farm. The donkey worked the hardest so the farmer fed it the most     2    . Sometimes the donkey was given more food     3     it could eat. This made the goat so jealous    4     it began plotting against(谋划对付)the donkey. "Hey, donkey," the goat said one day. "I think you do too much work on this farm. You carry such heavy things from morning to night. Why don't you pretend     5     (get) sick so you can take a day     6    ?'' The donkey thought the goat had a great idea. So the next morning, the donkey lay in the stable(畜栏)on its side with its eyes     7     (close). Right away, the farmer called the doctor.     8    looking at the donkey, the doctor said it needed a special medicine made     9     the heart of a goat. So the farmer killed     10     goat and gave the donkey medicine made from its heart.

【推荐2】Once upon a time a farmer had a dog and a rabbit. One day he organized a competition between his dog and his rabbit. He dug a hole in one of his biggest fields, and hid a carrot and a bone in it. He wanted to see     1    animal would find them first.

The     2    (cheer) and optimistic rabbit threw himself into looking for the carrot,     3    (dig) here and there, totally convinced that he would find it. But the dog, after sniffing around for a bit,     4    (lie) down and began to complain about how difficult it was to find one bone in such a big field.

The rabbit dug for hours, and with every new hole the dog complained even more about how difficult this     5    (be), even for the rabbit.     6    the rabbit thought that each hole dug was one hole less that needed digging. When there was no place in the whole field     7    (leave) to dig, the rabbit dug a tunnel right to     8    the dog had been lying all the time. There he found the carrot and the bone.

This is how the dog lost the game. He had come to     9    right place at the very beginning but failed to find the bone     10    he only complained and didn’t try at all.

【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。

Johnny, a lizard(蜥蜴), liked sunbathing every morning. One day, he felt so     1    (relax) that he didn’t notice some boys coming up behind him. The boys     2    (catch) Johnny, and he could only escape by losing his tail.

After the children left, Johnny came out to look     3    his tail, but found no sign of it. Feeling sad, he made a     4    (decide) to spend all his time looking for it. Time passed, and Johnny kept asking everyone whether     5    (them) had seen his tail. One day, he asked a boy, who surprisedly replied, “Why do you need two tails?” Hearing this, Johnny turned back and saw a new, stronger tail. He     6    (sudden) realized how silly it had been to waste so much time on such a problem.

On his way home, he found his old tail on the roadside.     7    it looked terrible, Johnny was still excited to have it back. He picked it up and was about to continue his journey when an idea hit him     8    he shouldn’t look at the past. He then dropped his old tail,     9    (leave) with it all his past worries. All he took with him     10    (be) thoughts of the future.

【推荐2】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。

One day an ant was drinking at a small stream and fell in. She made all efforts     1    (reach) the side, but made no progress at all. The poor     2    (tire) ant was still bravely doing her best when a dove saw her. Moved by her     3    (determine) and perseverance, the bird threw her a blade of grass,     4    supported her like a raft, and thus the ant reached the bank again. While she was resting and drying     5    (she) in the grass, she     6    (hear) a man come near. He was walking along barefooted     7    a gun in his hand. As soon as he saw the dove, he wished to kill it. He would certainly have done so, but the ant bit him in the foot just as he raised his gun to fire. He stopped to see     8    had bitten him, and the dove     9    (immediate) flew away. It was an animal much     10    (weak) that had saved her life.

【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。

The gorillas(大猩猩) in the valleys in the south often lived together in groups of several tens. They were fond of drinking wine, and even fonder of imitating man’s     1     (behave).

People knew very well their     2     (habit) and often put wine on the roadside together with many straw sandals     3     were connected together with ropes.

The gorillas knew this was     4    trick to lure(引诱) them into traps and cursed: “Humph! Do you think we don’t know your tricks? We’ll never be taken in!” So they called one another,     5     (turn) round and left.

But they had smelled the aroma(香味) of the wine already, and couldn’t bear to part with it. Even after they left, they would turn their heads to look back.     6     they saw no one there, they would turn back; and after they turned back, they were afraid of     7     (cheat), and left again. After much hesitation, they     8     (final) said to themselves: “Just for a taste of the wine. It won’t matter as long as we don’t get drunk.”

Shortly afterwards, they agreed     9     (come) back to drink the wine. When they got drunk, they forgot everything. Every gorilla put on the straw sandals and imitated the way man walks.

As a result, they fell down one after another and all of them     10     (catch) alive by people.