【推荐1】阅读短文，根据语篇要求填空，使短文通顺，意思完整。每空限填一词。

An old man went to India. When he got there, he saw some fruit for sale, but most of it was very cheap.     1     cheapest thing was a basket of red fruit.

“How much per kilo? the old man asked.

“Two rupees(卢比),” the shopkeeper answered. Two rupees in India is almost nothing, so the old man bought a whole kilogram and started eating it.

However, as soon as he started eating, his mouth began to burn, his eyes began to water, and his whole face became as red     2     the fruit. As he coughed and struggled to breathe, he jumped up and down, screaming: “Ah! Ah! Ah!”

And yet he continued to eat the fruit. Some people     3     were looking at him shook their heads and said, “You are crazy! Those are chili peppers (辣椒)! You can’t just eat them by the handful!”

The old man said to     4    , “I paid for them, so I must eat them.”

This old man seemed pretty stupid. But are we so much smarter? All of us have spent money and time on something--maybe a relationship, or a business, or a job- -and sometimes, even if we know there’s no hope that things will change, we still continue with it.

What we can learn     5    the old man is this: if you’ve lost a lot over something that doesn’t work, let it go and move on. It’s better than continuing to lose.

【推荐2】Joe knows all popular dance steps. The boy dances to the music     1    (quick) when it starts. Nothing     2    (be) special about this except for one little fact——Joe cannot hear a note of the music.

When music starts, something physical happens     3     him. He can feel a change of the air. It is this “something” that makes him such a good dancer     4     he will take part in a dance competition.

When Joe was a baby, he got a serious     5    (ill) which took his hearing, his family was so poor that he     6    (send) to the Blacks. They always told Joe, “You will do everything and you should keep     7    (try).” So when Joe was only     8     small child, he began to study the movements of dancers on TV. Until one day he thought, “I could try this     9    (I).” He started to dance like Michael Jackson. After a while, he didn’t need to look at the screen.

Joe is happy to have the chance     10    (show) his dancing skills to people. Life is good, Joe feels.

【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，并将答案写在答题卡相应的横线上。

LIU XU was robbed (抢劫)! The 13-year-old boy was     1     (ride) home when a man suddenly jumped out from the roadside. He pulled Liu off his bike and rode away. Liu was scared, but he didn’t run     2     the robber. He     3     (find) a telephone and called the police at 110.

“    4     (safe) is the priority (要务) in such a situation,” Liu said, remembering what his teacher had told him in his first-aid class. “It is not safe to chase an adult who is much     5     (strong) than you.”

Liu is a junior student at Shenzhen Bao’an Middle School in Guangdong. His school is one of     6     first in China to have compulsory (必修的) first-aid education. Junior students at the school must take the class once a week.

Teenage safety has     7     (become) a serious problem these days. According to a 2020 survey, about 16, 000 teenagers die in accidents in China every year.

Bao’an School said that the first-aid classes are “to teach students skills so that they can protect and save     8     (they) in emergencies (紧急情况).”

“The teacher told us that we should try not to go out alone, especially at night.     9     someone tries to do bad things to us, we may hit their eyes or noses. Then we should quickly run into a     10     (crowd) place,” said Zhong Hua, a 13-year-old girl.

【推荐3】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的单词，单词的第一个字母已给出。
       In Singapore, many middle school students work hard. They s    1     a lot of time on their studies. People always think that good schooling is the k    2     to success (成功). So, many of these students try their best to get good grades in their exams. They have a lot of homework every day and exams are usually a big p    3     to them. Sometimes, a few even have to go to e    4     classes after school.
       Schools have many activities o    5     school hours. The students can join in sports and games, music and dance, and rock-climbing. They also join in community service, like doing the cleaning-up or other volunteering work in the n    6    .
       In their f    7     time, most students like to listen to pop music. Hollywood movies, Hong Kong and Singapore movies are very popular, too. It also takes some of them some time to surf the Internet, e    8     their friends and play computer games. They sometimes go to cafes, fast-food r    9    , shopping centers and big bookstores.
       So 1    10     for middle school students in Singapore is not easy, but rich and colorful!