【推荐1】阅读填词
Ever since I was a child, my mouth has caused me trouble. I’m not a bad person; I have a hard time l    1     when to keep my mouth closed.
My mom has told me again and again, "Robert, your constant bad words are hurting me. If you continue to be this rude, you will get into big t    2    ."
One day in English class I began working on my homework until I heard a classmate talking behind me. It was Nathaniel, talking to himself as u    3    .
I said ever so nicely, "Nathaniel, would you be quiet?"
Nathaniel continued talking to himself. I quickly shouted "Nathaniel, shut up!"
For the next five minutes, we t    4     hurtful words back and forth at each other.
"At least I don’t have an ugly lazy eye like you!" I cried out.
I knew this would upset him deep inside. It would hurt his f    5     and shut him up.
What I said filled him with anger. He tried to r    6     over my seat and grab me as he shouted, "That’s it! That’s it!"
I was s    7     at his reaction, I sat back in my seat. Later on, we were taken to the teacher’s office. There, Mr. Black, our English teacher, asked us what m    8     most to us and made us discuss it. It wasn’t until then that I finally found that when I hurt someone physically, the wounds finally heal(痊愈) e    9    . but when I hurt someone with my words, sometimes the pain never goes away.
At the end of discussion, I said sorry to Tom.
When I went back to my room, I spent some time praying(祈祷). I began to consider how often what I said hurt others. But I believe that as I keep asking God to help me, he’ll tell me when to keep my mouth closed and it’ll make a big d    10     to my life.

【推荐2】A man had a garden. He planted a rose and watered it     1     (careful). Before the rose blossomed(盛开), he noticed many thorns(刺) around the bud(花蕾) and he thought, “H    2     can any beautiful flower come from a plant with so many sharp thorns?” Because of this i    3    , he lost interest in this kind of plant. Then he gave up watering the rose. And just     4     it was ready to blossom, it died.

Good qualities are just like roses. There is a rose in everybody’s spirit. The good     5     (quality) planted in us at birth grow among the thorns—our weaknesses. Many of us look at     6     (we) and we only see our weaknesses. We lose heart, thinking that n    7     good can possibly come from us. We give up watering the roses in us, and slowly they die. We never realize the g    8     for being able to find out our good qualities.

Someone may not see the rose in himself, so we need to     9     (help) him discover the rose. With love, we can accept a person into our life, even though we know his true weaknesses. At the same time, we should e    10     him to face his weaknesses bravely and correct them.

Then he will blossom many times.

【推荐3】阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或所给单词的提示，在每个空格内填入一个恰当的词，要求所填的词意义准确、形式正确，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。

When I was young, my father told me that some acts of     1     /lʌv/ may give someone happiness. So I always try my best to help others.

One afternoon, it was very hot. I was     2     on the highway to Fuzhou when another car suddenly came into my lane (车道). My car was in the far right lane, so it ran into the roadside. But luckily, it didn’t cause     3     accident.

I was     4     /ʌnˈhæpi/ with that driver, but I thought that he just did not     5     attention to the lane change, and maybe he was just     6     (care).

The car ran away after cutting me off. Very soon it disappeared. After a while, I came around a curve (弯道) and found the same car. The driver was walking along the roadside. He looked     7     (worry). The man’s car had a flat tire (瘪胎).     8     /ðəʊ/ he had a spare tire (备胎), he had nothing to work with. I decided to help him. I changed the tire for him and let him sit in my air-conditioned car while I did it. Fifteen     9     (minute)later, I finished the work. I was hot and tired, but I     10     /'ri: əli/ felt good after an act of kindness to the man.

Helping others is the source (源泉) of happiness. That’s true. We should lend a hand to others in trouble.

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的词或填入括号内所给单词的适当形式。

I am now a good student in my class. But you don’t know that when I started senior English in the beginning, I found     1     difficult and quite different from     2     we had learned in Junior school. Now I still remember a teacher who taught me at the time. The teacher is a good teacher     3     she always tries her best to make her classes more active and easier.     4     the help of my teacher, I realized the     5     (important) of English, so I decided to learn English well. My teacher suggested that we read more if we want     6     (improve) our English, so every day I would do some English     7     (read). She also told us lessons learned in classes could help us deal with     8     (exam), but even more useful were the lessons learned in after-class activities in school. I like my English teacher very much. Now I become     9     interested in my English study that I am much     10     (good) at English than before.

【推荐3】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式填空。（每空不超过三个单词）

Huanhuan is a middle school student who loves playing with little animals. One day, on her way to school, she met a homeless cat sitting in a box. W    1     the cat saw Huanhuan, it jumped out of the box and began to miaow. The cat was s    2     cute that Huanhuan couldn’t help but start playing with it.

The more Huanhuan played with the cat, the more she liked it. The cat seemed to love her and f    3     her along the way. Huanhuan looked at the cute cat, thought for a while and decided to take the cat to school w    4     her. She put the cat in her schoolbag and headed for school.

After Huanhuan a    5     school, she     6     (quiet) walked into the classroom. She opened her bag to take out her textbooks. H    7    , the cat jumped out of the schoolbag and started running around the classroom. It climbed into a desk, hid under a chair, and e    8     jumped onto the teacher’s desk. Just at that moment, the teacher stepped into the classroom. She caught the cat gently and t    9     Huanhuan that animals were not allowed to take to school. She advised her to take it home or to the animal centre if p    10    . Huanhuan smiled sweetly and took her teacher’s advice.

What a nice day!