【推荐1】语法填空

My father is     1    (knowledge), because he can always give me advice and help me make the best decision. Having graduated     2    college, he landed a job in a company, but soon he felt bored to sit in the office all the day. My grandfather suggested he should think     3    (careful)what he really wanted. Therefore, my father quit to travel across China,    4    (hope) to find the answer during the trip. When he arrived at a mountainous village, he was shocked to find there was     5    urgent need for teachers. What he saw in local children’s eyes moved him, so he     6    (decide)to settle down and teach them. Now, he has students all over the country.

【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。

After eating a diet of bread, hamburgers and spaghetti for three    1    (month), I began to miss Chinese food.Luckily, in    2    international city like New York, I have little difficulty    3    (find) a Chinese restaurant.However, the Chinese food, which the locals consider    4    their favorite, is not exactly the Chinese food I enjoy in Beijing.I can always find such so-called “Chinese food” as honey chicken on the menu,    5    I actually have never even heard of it before.

One day, I went to a Chinese restaurant with my local friends.After the meal, each of us    6    (give) a dumpling-shaped cookie.Once I bit into it, I realized something not quite right.I found a piece of paper with a message that read, “This fortune’s no good, try another.” At first I    7    (think) it must be a trick of the restaurant.When I told this to my friends, they burst into    8    (laugh) and asked, “Are you really from China?”

But it doesn’t mean there is no place in New York where I can satisfy my stomach.I always head to China Town when I    9     (extreme) miss the food of my homeland.Following the hot and spicy smell, I can always find the most typical(典型的) Chinese food    10    excites me in the city.

【推荐2】Once a man was walking along a beach. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. In the distance he could see a person     1     (go) back and forth between the surf’s edge     2     the beach. As the man approached, he could see there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as a result of the natural     3     (act) of the tide.

The man     4     (stick) by the apparent uselessness of the task.There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to die. As he approached, the person continued the task of     5     (pick) up the starfish one by one and throwing them into the ocean.

As he came up to the person, he said, “You must be crazy. There are     6     (thousand) of miles of beach     7     (cover) with starfish. You can’t     8     (possible) make any difference.” The person looked at the man. He then bent down and picked up one     9     (many) starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, “It surely made a     10     to that one！”

【推荐3】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.

Rescue in the Rapids

ON A BREEZY Saturday in April 2014, former police officer Kevin O’Connor and his son, Ryan, were standing in a park near the Fox River in Geneva, Illinois. As Kevin gazed at the river, he caught sight of several people on the bank     1    (motion) toward the water. When he looked in that direction, he noticed a bright red boat turning in a spinning circle in the stormy water at the base of the Geneva Dam，300 feet away.

Kevin assumed the person on the boat     2     (jump) out of it. “Then I heard a warning signal with a loud sound,” says Kevin, now 42. “That’s     3    I realized somebody was in trouble.”

He couldn’t see anyone in the river,     4    he sped toward the bank and dashed into the freezing water. About 150 feet from shore, he spied an object moving downriver. “I thought it was a life jacket,” he says. “When I caught up to it, I realized it     5     (attach) to a person.”

Now in water up to his neck, Kevin grabbed the man,     6    was floating on his back unconscious, under both armpits and held his head above the surface. Kevin struck the man’s chest again and again. After five hits, the man coughed up water and began speaking incoherently. Just back to life, the man was still weak. Battling the current, Kevin sidestepped his way     7    the shoreline, repeatedly digging his shoes into the river’s rocky bottom. When he reached the bank, someone jumped into the river and helped Kevin lift the 200-pound drowning man over a six-foot brick retaining wall to waiting doctors, who took him away in an ambulance. The man recovered, but a friend who was boating with him died after being trapped underwater near the dam.

Kevin pulled     8    up to sit on the shore beside Ryan, who had followed his father’s path down the river. “When I caught my breath, I realized I saved someone’s life, which is what I     9    do.” Kevin says.

In December 2015, Kevin received an award from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. “Lots of honour-receivers lost their lives saving someone,” he says. “     10     (put) in the same category is very humbling.”