【推荐1】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     1     ant was drinking at a small stream and fell in.     2     (face) with the trouble, she tried her best to reach the side, but made no progress at all. The poor     3     (tire) ant was still bravely making all     4     (effort) when a dove saw her. Moved by her determination and perseverance, the bird threw her a blade(片)of grass,     5     supported her like a raft(木筏), and thus the ant reached the bank again. While she was resting and drying       6       (she) in the grass, she    7       (hear) a man come near. He was walking along barefooted     8         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     9     had bitten him, and the dove       10       (immediate) flew away. It was an animal much weaker that had saved her life.

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，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。

Seventeen-year-old teenager, John Janson was honoured at the Lifesaver Awards last night for giving first aid on his neighbor after    1    shocking knife attack.

John    2    (study) in his room when he heard screaming. When he and his father rushed outside, they found Anne Slade, their neighbour, had been stabbed    3    ( repeated) with a knife. She was lying in her front garden    4    (bleed) heavily. It was John's quick action and knowledge of first aid    5    saved Ms. Slade's life. He immediately used    6    he could find on the spot to treat the most severe injuries    7    Ms. Slade's hands until the ambulance came. Before receiving their awards last night, John and nine other Life Savers    8    had saved the life of another attended a special reception yesterday    9    (host) by the Prime Minister. "I'm proud of what I did but I was just doing what I'd been taught," John said.

John's experience shows that a knowledge of first aid can make a real    10    (differ) in our daily life.

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The world-famous credit card company Mastercard is    1    （remove）its name from its company logo. It will follow the    2    （like）of Apple and Nike to have a logo     3    has a symbol only and no writing. Mastercard had    4    （traditional）used a logo that had overlapping yellow and red circles with the word "Mastercard"     5    （write）over the top. The company has decided    6    （drop） the word "Mastercard" and use just the two intersecting circles as a wordless logo. The new logo     7    （use）as the brand's symbol on credit cards and in stores，as well as on advertising，at sports and    8    events. The company's marketing officer said over 80 per cent of people spontaneously（本能地）recognized the new symbol    9    the word "Mastercard"，which means their company may rise to those like Apple whose logo uses only a symbol. According to what he said，the    10    （simple）but more modern logo represents Mastercard is developing into a digital era when people communicate with more signs and less words.

【推荐1】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Many times we spare no effort at work, offering hours of overtime by ignoring our family life. We spend time    1    people who we have nothing in common with, and attend social     2     (activity) we have no interest in. We always find ourselves living our lives in the way    3     pleases and impresses others instead of being ourselves. In fact, for most of people, they only think about     4     (they) 99% of the time, and     5     (rare) give us a second thought, as a result of     6     we often end up unhappy and feeling out of place.

In view of this, it’s time to think about ourselves, our own family, and start creating a future which is    7     (base) on our own likes and dislikes. Thus, think it over next time when we     8    (require) to work overtime. Trying to be a loving parent or good friend     9     (be) very likely to give us far more     10     (please) and a feeling of security, connection and belonging.

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

China is a     1    (develop) country, but it has a long history. There are many beautiful stories about friendship, the     2     (good) of which to be described in Chinese literature is probably the friendship     3    Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi. Yu was a famous master of music     4    played the qin well.

Once, he took a boat trip to the state of Chu.     5    (inspire) by the beautiful view along the way, Yu took out his qin and began to play. After a while, he noticed a woodsman enjoying his music     6    (quiet). The man was Zhong Ziqi. When Yu played music that described high mountains, Zhong said: “How     7    (wonder) it is! I seem to see Mount Tai.” And when he played music that described flowing water, Zhong said: “How nice it is! I seem to see the rushing river.” Yu was surprised by the woodsman’s words because the man could really understand his music. When Zhong died the following year, Yu was     8    upset that he took out his qin to play the music of the “high mountains and flowing water” one last time for Zhong. When he was done, he     9     (break) his qin on purpose so he could never play it again.

Now, the phrase “high mountains and flowing water”    10     (use) to stand for very good music or “zhi yin”—a bosom friend who treasures and knows you quite well.

【推荐3】In my primary school years, there was a little girl in the class who worked very hard but somehow could never do satisfactorily in her lessons. The teacher asked me to help her, and     1     was obvious that she expected a lot from me. But as a young boy, restless, thoughtless, I always tried to avoid her so as to get more time to enjoy     2    ( I ).

One day before the final exam, she came up to me and said, “Could you please explain this     3     me? I want very much to do     4     (well) this time.” I started explaining, and finished in a hurry.     5     (pretend) not to notice her still-confused eyes, I ran off quickly. Not surprisingly, she again     6     (do) very badly in the exam. And two months later, at the beginning of the new semester, word came of her     7     (die). No one knew about the little task I failed     8    (fulfill), but I couldn’t forgive myself. I simply couldn’t forget her eyes,     9     seem to be asking, “Why didn’t you do a little more to help me?”

It was the very starting point of my life, for I began to understand the word “responsibility” and to learn to always do my duties     10     (faithful) and devotedly.