【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。

Long ago, there lived in Greece a learned man. He was so well-known    1    his knowledge of almost everything that lots of people from all over the country came to learn from him. The great man    2    (teach) his students whole-heartedly and answered their questions with great     3    (patient).

One day, a student asked him, “My dear teacher, didn’t you say you yourself have many more questions about things than we do?    4    I think we students have far more than you.”

With a smile on his face, the teacher drew two circles, one as large as a big cake, the other smaller. Then he said, “Of course, I have learned much more. But it is wrong    5    (think) a teacher has fewer questions than his students. Now, look at these two circles. The inside of the    6    (big) one is my knowledge of things, and the inside of the smaller one is    7    (your). Out of the circles is what is still unknown to us. Since mine is larger, I have to use the longer line to draw the bigger circle. That means I have more opportunities to face something    8    (know). And that’s    9    I myself have more questions than you do. The    10    (much) you learn, the more questions you have. You will never learn enough, you know.”

【推荐3】It was a cold and cloudy afternoon. I was on the bus with my children, aged four and two, heading home when it started to rain. I realized this would mean     1    wet walk home from the bus stop.
Home was only two blocks away     2    it was not a pleasant walk with one small boy fast asleep in the pram (手推婴儿车), the other one in a raincoat and no umbrella for myself. A pick-up truck passed us on the road and, a few minutes later, I saw it     3    (pull) back and the driver looking directly at us.
A young man put the window down. “Hey, here’s an umbrella for you --- please take it.” He called out.
I stood there     4    (surprise), hardly believing that the man,     5    I didn’t know at all, could be so     6    (thought). “Come on, give this to your mummy,” he said to my older son. I gratefully accepted the offer,     7    (thank) him and watched the truck disappear down the road.
This man might have needed the umbrella for     8    later during the day but preferred to give it to me. It was a lesson to me     9    it’s possible to give without expecting anything     10    return.

【推荐1】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.

Cruz Genet, 11, and Anthony Skopick, 10, couldn’t agree. Were the birds out on the ice ducks or geese? There was only one way to find out.

So on a chilly January evening last year, the two friends ventured (冒险) onto the frozen pond near their homes in Frankfort, Illinois,    1    (get) a better look. First they cast a rock onto the ice to test it, then they stepped on it.    2    (convince) the ice would hold their weight, Anthony took a few steps, then … FOOMP. He crashed through the seemingly frozen surface. There was no sound, he just fell instantly.

Cruz rushed to help his terrified friend. FOOMP -- the pond swallowed him too. Cruz managed to lift

    3    out of the frozen water and onto a more solid section. He then cautiously worked his way toward Anthony. But the ice     4    (not hold), and he fell in again. This time, he couldn’t get out. The boys were up to their necks in icy water and quickly losing feeling in their limbs. There was not much chance     5    they could free themselves from the trouble. Cruz was sure he was going to die.

Anthony’s older sister had seen the boys     6    (fall) into the pond and started creaming for help. John Lavin, a neighbor driving nearby on his way to the grocery store, heard her. He quickly pulled over. Seeing the boys, he grabbed a nearby buoy(浮标)，kicked off his shoes, and ran into the water,    7    (chop) his way through the ice with his free fist. Lavin made his way    8    Cruz and Anthony and pull them back to land. They were taken to the hospital, where doctors discovered that their five-minute stay in the water    9    (lower) their body temperature nearly ten degrees.

Fortunately, the boys have fully recovered,    10    they are still a little awestruck(惊叹的)by their fearless neighbor. “Just to think,” says Cruz, “If he hadn’t been there, I would have died.”

【推荐2】阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个恰当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Today I will share a true story about an overseas student    1    studied in Germany.

After years of hard work, this student graduated with    2    (amaze) achievements. Everyone was sure that he was going to get a good job    3    (easy) and have a bright future. But to his surprise, he was not even given the chance for    4     interview! It was the third time that he    5    (refuse), he couldn’t help    6    (phone) the company to ask why they didn’t want him. The answer was simple. “We don’t offer jobs to dishonest people in Germany.”

You might wonder what was wrong. The truth is, shortly after he    7    (arrive) in Germany, this clever student found that    8    was easy to skip buying subway tickets in this country. So in order to save money, he often went in the subway without a ticket. As a result, he had been caught without a ticket many times.

From this story, we learn that we may get short-term benefits in dishonest ways,     9    the truth will come out sooner or later and the cost is high. So remember that dishonesty may lead to     10    (fail). We must be honest. It is a rule.