【推荐1】短文填空

If you think you are too shy and want to be a little bit braver, just try the following things:

Be o    1     to others. Tell people you are shy. The re is no need to hide it. When they get to know you are a shy kid, they will u    2    you better. This also helps you feel more comfortable in talks.

Try to smile more. When you smile, people think you are f    3     and easy to talk with. Remember that other people have feelings, too; and most people will stay a    4    from an angry-looking face.

Learn to be a good talker. If you find it hard to s    5    a conversation, say something nice about people around you. Think about how great you feel w    6    someone says something nice to you. Doesn’t it make you want to keep talking to that person?

Get your attention elsewhere. Think more about ways to enjoy parties or games. Don’t waste t    7    worrying about your look or whether people like you or not. You will become relaxed and find it’s not so hard to talk with o    8    .

Take one small step at a time. Each time when you say “Hi” or smile at someone, say toy    9     “You can make it.” Keep trying and one day you’ll never feel s    10    when you talk to others.

【推荐2】Can you find your way if you are in a new city? Don't w    1    . Here are some tips to help you find your way.
First, you can buy a map of the city. Find the place where you are on the map. Then look f    2     the place you’re going to on the map. You will know h    3     to get there easily.
S    4    , you can ask the traffic policeman. At the t    5     lights, there are usually some policemen. They will be happy to help you find your way.
Third, you can look at the s    6    . The sun can help you find the direction. For example, in the morning, the sun is in the e    7    . In the late afternoon, the sun is in the w    8    .
Fourth, it’s a good idea to take the taxi to a new place. The taxi d    9     usually knows the way well. He can’t take you to a wrong place but it usually c    10     you a lot of money.

【推荐3】There are three branches of medicine. One is called “doctor medicine” or “scientific medicine”. Scientific doctors try to     1     sicknesses, look for logical patterns, and then find out how the human body works. From there they figure out what treatments may work. This kind of medicine is believed to     2     from the 4th century BC. Although nowadays it is successful, in the ancient world this approach probably did not cure many patients.

The second kind of medicine is called “natural cures” or “folk medicine”, in which     3     educated people try to cure sicknesses with various herbs(草). These folk healers also use observation and logic, but they are not aware of it. They try things     4     they find something that seems to work, and then they keep doing that. Folk medicine flourished     5     before the development of scientific medicine and was more successful in ancient times than doctor medicine.

The third kind is called “health spas” or “faith healing”. Sometimes this is as simple as touching the holy man and being immediately     6    . Other times, a magician may make you a magic charm, or say a spell, to cure you. Some religious groups organize special healing shrines (神坛) for the sick. In these places people rest, get plenty of sleep, eat healthy food, drink water instead of wine, and exercise in various ways. They also talk to the priests and pray to the gods. If you are feeling     7     or you have been working too hard, going to these places may be just the right thing to make you feel better.

【推荐1】Iris began to go to kindergarten(幼儿园) at the age of 3. She enjoys t    1     care of other children. She also likes helping the teachers with chores. She often helps the teacher s    2     the floor，because Iris thinks it is i    3    .

Iris is smarter t    4     other kids. She b    5     playing computer games at the age of 4. She is also a good storyteller. Iris likes i    6     friends to her house. She tells stories to her friends and her mother often cooks delicious s    7     for them.

Iris is a big help to her mother. ＂Look at the broom(扫帚) in the picture！It’s m    8    . I use it to help my mother sweep the floor every day，＂ Iris says. Every evening she does the d    9     after her family finish eating. Iris can help her parents clean u    10     the garden，too.

【推荐2】Chen Min, a kung fu star in Latin America, is trying to blend more Chinese kung fu and culture into Disney XD's coming TV show "Jungle Nest."
Chen has practiced kung fu for 25 years. She t    1    the martial art (武术) in Argentina at present. She has become a w    2    kung fu star all over the world because of her appearances in many TV shows. Some fans even c    3    her the "female Bruce Lee."
Born in China's eastern Zhejiang province, she started her career a    4    a professional martial arts athlete when she decided to learn kung fu at 5. T    5    her parents wanted her to take up Ping-Pong or swimming, she didn’t give in.
With hard w    6    and gift, Chen soon proved her excellence and joined the national team. She won many awards, i    7    a gold medal at the East Asian Games.
In 2007, Chen retired and went to South America to realize her d    8    of spreading Chinese kung fu and culture. She opened a kung fu school in Buenos Aires in February 2008 and only one student showed up on the opening of the school. H    9    , she did not give up. Now the school has more than 900 students.
"In some ways, Chinese kung fu represents Chinese t    10    culture behind it," said Chen.
She believes kung fu is more of a Chinese spirit and way of life.

【推荐3】C. Fill in the blanks with proper words (在短文的空格内填上适当的词，使其内容通顺。每空格限填一词，首字母已给)

With a determined(坚定的) look on his face, Chicago’s Michael McCarthy held on to the banister(扶手) and climbed to the top of the Willis Tower not long ago. The tower is 442 meters tall, the h    1     building in the USA.

As he got to the last step, McCarthy almost fell down, but that didn’t s    2     him. The 14-year-old boy finally finished climbing the 2019 steps and arrived at the top.

McCarthy was born without legs and he had to wear prosthetic legs(假肢). But he believes that he shouldn’t give up achieving his success although he is disabled. “I just want to show people that if a kid with no legs can do it, a    3     can do it,” he said.

He has been in a special school since he was four. When he decided to climb the Willis Tower, his teacher, Jeff Kohn, offered to help t    4     him. They spent more than ten hours practising climbing stairs every day. “It means that he n    5     knows how difficult it is. Sometimes I was so tired that I asked him to rest for a day,” said Kohn, “But he said he was still full of energy(能量) and wanted more e    6    ,”

McCarthy said he was p    7     of himself. “When I ‘m older, I”ll point to the building and say ’Look at this building I climbed’,”he said.

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空(必更时可加情态动词或助动词)。

If you've ever stayed up late and then gotten up early the next day, you know what it's like not to get enough sleep. It's very uncomfortable feeling. In fact, for many years scientists     1    (believe) that sleep is like food - if we don’t get enough of it, we might get sick or even die. But now they     2     (start)to wonder just how much sleep we need.

Researchers at Imperial College London did a study on fruit flies(果蝇). They found that flies that slept for very short periods of time - about72 minutes a day -still     3     (live) about as long as flies that slept for normal amounts of time. One of the female slept for just 4 minutes each day on average. This has led the researchers to wonder if sleep is less necessary than we previously thought.

Humans are very different from fruit flies. Sleep     4    (help) repair tissue (组织) when our bodies perform a lot of maintenance (维护). Sleeping allows our bodies     5     (get) well again from the stress we experience each day. But can we really die from not sleeping? No humans have died so far from     6     (stay) awake for too long. The current(现在的)world record for sleeplessness     7     (hold) by Randy Gardner from the US, who stayed awake for 11 days and 25 minutes in 1964.

Scientist have not yet found any animals that don’t sleep at all. Even animals that only sleep for short periods are not completely sleepless.

【推荐3】阅读下面材料，并填空，有的答案要填入适当的内容，有的答案要用括号内单词的正确形式，但每个答案不多于3个单词．

One of the world's most dangerous sports is mountain climbing， and one of the    1    popular places for this is the Himalayas． The Himalayas    2    （run） along the southwestern part of China．

Of all the mountains， Qomolangma rises the highest and is the most famous．    3     is 8，844． 43 meters high and so is very     4    （danger）to climb． It is very hard to take in air as you get near the top．

The first Chinese team     5    （reach） the top in 1960， while    6    first woman to succeed was Junko Taibei from Japan in 1975．

Why do so many climbers risk their lives？ One of the main     7    （reason） is that people want to challenge themselves     8     of difficulties， The spirit of these climbers shows us that we should never give up     9    （try） to achieve our dreams． It also shows that humans    10    （be） stronger than the forces of nature in some situations