【推荐1】—You need to give me a(n) ________ for your mistake.
—It’s my carelessness. I promise I will never make this mistake.

A．reason

B．excuse

C．apology

【推荐2】If you see Jack, please give my________   to him for not having written to him.

A．apology

B．excuse

C．message

【推荐3】—I received a letter of _______ from the restaurant after I called the customer service.
—They had to say sorry for serving terrible but expensive food.

A．offer

B．thanks

C．apology

【推荐1】The huge fire ______ the whole factory and killed 121 workers.

A．kept

B．protected

C．destroyed

D．damaged

【推荐2】To ________ means to cause physical harm to something or to part of someone’s body.

A．develop

B．hide

C．damage

【推荐3】—Where will your birthday party take place?
—At the hotel near my home.

A．end

B．happen

C．damage

【推荐1】—Were your parents satisfied ________ the clean-up?
—To their ________, the room was very clean and tidy.

A．with; satisfaction

B．in; satisfy

C．to; satisfied

【推荐2】Some cartoons, like “Superman and Spider­Man”, are about heroes. They ________ bad people to protect the world.

A．fight

B．laugh

C．invent

D．satisfy

【推荐3】—Charles Schulz created Snoopy and his friends.
—Also, he drew the cartoons to ________older people as well as children.

A．punish

B．afford

C．satisfy

【推荐1】The radio said it would rain in the evening, so Jim _______ not to eat out with his friends.

A．hoped

B．decided

C．expected

D．planned

【推荐2】I’m going to start earlier to __________the heavy traffic hours.

A．welcome

B．make

C．please

D．avoid

【推荐3】It often ________ Jack half an hour to go to work.

A．spends

B．takes

C．costs

D．pays