【推荐1】Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James McKay, spent Saturday night in jail after ____thirty-year-old Keith Smith over the head ____ his walking stick. McKay's wife, Laurence told us that while McKay is usually a ____ person, he had been ____ to this act of violence by getting wet just once too often.
Smith lives above the McKays and it appears that not only is he a keen gardener, he is also a ____ collector. Unfortunately for him, the water he sent over his balcony every day ended up on the McKay's, or too often, on the McKays ____
“For the last fortnight, since Smith moved into the flat above us, we have hardly dared to go to our ____,” said Laurence. She added that it wasn't so much the water falling onto their balcony from Smith watering his plant ____ bothered them, it was more the way he cleaned his fish tanks. “We'd be ____ there happily reading our newspapers, when ____ so much water would come from above that we'd be as wet as if we'd ____ with our clothes on! Neither could we get rid of the ____ of fish!”
And on Saturday evening it was just too ____ “It was James's birthday,” explained Laurence, “and I'd made him a birthday cake. The candles were a great sight as you can imagine, but James didn't get to blow them out.” ____ Smith emptied one of his larger tanks over his balcony and both the McKays and the cake were wet ____ Rarely had Laurence seen McKay move so fast. “I couldn't ____ him. He was up there in a flash. It was the fastest I'd seen him move since 1964.”
Smith is not going to take things further with the police. He has also promised to change his ____ from now on. And what of James McKay? ____ he left the police station, a large crowd of supporters sang him, “Happy Birthday”. “____ the most exciting birthday ____!” said the cheerful old man. “The best since my adolescence I'd say!”1.

A．hitting

B．tapping

C．pushing

D．touching

2.

A．by

B．via

C．through

D．with

3.

A．quiet

B．peaceful

C．sensitive

D．stubborn

4.

A．accustomed

B．taken

C．driven

D．attracted

5.

A．fish

B．seed

C．plant

D．newspaper

6.

A．himself

B．itself

C．themselves

D．herself

7.

A．bathroom

B．kitchen

C．bedroom

D．balcony

8.

A．which

B．what

C．that

D．whether

9.

A．sitting

B．exercising

C．sleeping

D．eating

10.

A．regularly

B．unconsciously

C．precisely

D．suddenly

11.

A．swum

B．showered

C．watered

D．drowned

12.

A．taste

B．sense

C．feeling

D．smell

13.

A．little

B．soon

C．late

D．much

14.

A．Beside

B．Instead

C．Otherwise

D．Consequently

15.

A．over

B．across

C．through

D．down

16.

A．stop

B．blame

C．ignore

D．stand

17.

A．views

B．attitude

C．ways

D．mind

18.

A．While

B．Since

C．Until

D．As

19.

A．Sincerely

B．Impossibly

C．Definitely

D．Previously

20.

A．before

B．ever

C．already

D．since

【推荐2】When my son joined the high-school wrestling team last fall during COVID-19, my 83-year-old dad asked me to inquire if they needed an assistant coach. “He wrestled in university, ” I told the coach. I left out his _________.

A few days before the first practice, I e-mailed the coach to tell him my son’s _________ was 83, and in good health. I was _________. What if he didn’t_________ the team? I also pointed out that his hearing aids had sat _________ for five years. He just didn’t like wearing them.

At the first practice, Dad met the coach and told him he would do anything he was needed, even _________ the mats(垫子). When he and my son returned, they were both overjoyed. Dad made the team, but “God, I_________ I could hear the coach!” he said. One day, he realized he forgot his hearing aids as I dropped him and my son _________ for their practice. So we _________ for them.

In his free time, Dad borrowed Wrestling for Dummies from the library. He read up on different__________ and the scoring system. “They are a lot different from my __________ days. I must update them. ” he told me. He thought the coach and the kids in the club were __________ and kind. One of the__________ after each practice approached him and said, “Thank you for being here.”

COVID-19 has not allowed me to watch any of the __________. I relied on my father to give me the play-by-play of what is __________ in the wrestling room. I’m proud to be a wrestling daughter.

1.

A．age

B．name

C．competence

D．hobby

2.

A．cousin

B．uncle

C．grandpa

D．nephew

3.

A．delighted

B．confident

C．overwhelmed

D．nervous

4.

A．create

B．make

C．appreciate

D．fit

5.

A．unexpected

B．unfolded

C．unused

D．undoubted

6.

A．reserve

B．wipe

C．produce

D．apply

7.

A．wish

B．realize

C．assume

D．ensure

8.

A．out

B．back

C．in

D．off

9.

A．set down

B．broke up

C．turned back

D．called in

10.

A．moves

B．majors

C．uniforms

D．proverbs

11.

A．childhood

B．work

C．glory

D．university

12.

A．courageous

B．polite

C．fun

D．optimistic

13.

A．wrestlers

B．coaches

C．parents

D．witnesses

14.

A．campaigns

B．matches

C．practices

D．performances

15.

A．happening

B．rising

C．working

D．fading

【推荐3】While shopping I came across a young woman trying on shoes. She told me her mom advised her to get some shoes as she was _________ a baby and her feet were already starting to swell(肿胀). I told her I_________ the shoes she was trying on. We talked more about her pregnancy(怀孕). She was only 14 weeks along and seemed very _________. She told me that she just moved back in with her mom in hope of the baby.

As I began to wrap up our conversation, I told her she should definitely get the shoes if they were _________ because they looked good. She asked me whether they had layaway(分期预付) because the shoes were a little bit beyond her_________, but she really liked them.

Her_________ took me back to my youth. I grew up relatively poor. Kids from rich families would make fun of my brother and me as they watched our mother pick furniture out of the _________. I was _________ with emotions and with a compulsion(冲动) to help her.

I asked her whether she would buy them if I were to give her $20 toward the shoes. She started crying _________. It seemed like she wasn’t sure whether she should say yes. She __________ the help after I __________ a little white lie about winning some __________ the previous day. She grabbed her shoes, hugged me tight, __________ me a hundred times, and ran right up to the register without looking at a single other item the __________ had.

It felt good to have a chance to help. In some way, my __________ paid off.

1.

A．raising

B．expecting

C．feeding

D．watching

2.

A．lost

B．found

C．liked

D．bought

3.

A．sad

B．excited

C．disappointed

D．surprised

4.

A．big

B．cheap

C．beautiful

D．comfortable

5.

A．creativity

B．description

C．imagination

D．affordability

6.

A．excitement

B．question

C．emotion

D．appearance

7.

A．waste

B．market

C．money

D．woods

8.

A．flooded

B．connected

C．impressed

D．provided

9.

A．happily

B．seriously

C．strangely

D．immediately

10.

A．refused

B．realized

C．doubted

D．accepted

11.

A．made up

B．gave out

C．took on

D．broke down

12.

A．award

B．honor

C．money

D．independence

13.

A．saw

B．called

C．thanked

D．answered

14.

A．kids

B．store

C．customers

D．shopping-bag

15.

A．bill

B．goods

C．kindness

D．happiness