【推荐1】阅读下面短文，在空白处填1个适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式填空。

Some students got together to visit their old university professor. They talked about their trouble in work and life. After the professor had offered his guests a drink, he went into the kitchen and     1     (return) with a large pot of coffee and some cups—porcelain(瓷的), plastic, glass, crystal(水晶的), some plain-looking(外表平常的), some beautiful, some expensive. The professor told them to help     2     (them) to the coffee.

When all his students had a cup in hand, he said: “I don’t know if you noticed, but when all the nice-looking expensive cups were taken up, the plain and cheap ones     3     (leave) behind. While it is normal for you to want only the     4     (good) for yourselves, that is the source(根源) of your problems and stress.”

“What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup,     5     you went for the best cups and were eyeing each other’s cups to see if they were better.”

“But think about this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and titles are the cups. Sometimes, by concentrating(专注于) only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. So, don’t let the cups drive you. Enjoy the coffee instead.”

【推荐2】Graham was one of the wisest friends of mine. Once I complained to him that I cycled two miles from my house to the town centre but u    1     there was a big hill on the way. To my surprise, he replied that I should feel lucky and be glad of the e    2     exercise the hill provided.

His words shocked me. So almost all of a sudden, my attitude to the hill c    3     . The next time when I got close to it,
instead of complaining as usual. I told myself that this hill would help me to keep fit. And the r    4     was that I found the way up the hill was much easier that I had expected -- it cost me nothing but some energy and sweat（汗）.
Several days later, I happened to read an article about pilot Douglas Bader. In 1931 both of his legs were lost in a
flying a    5    , but he decided to fly again and he became an excellent pilot and the only pilot that had no legs. He said, “Don’t tell yourself that things are too difficult or i    6    . Make up your mind and then try your best and then you can achieve your goal.”
I think the two cases bring the same message: We cannot a    7     difficulties in life, but we can choose our attitude
towards them - to face them or to run away from them. And some difficulties, actually, are not as great as they seem to be.

【推荐3】请用适当的词完成下面的短文。每个空只能填写一个形式正确、意义相符的单词。

For a long time, Mike felt that his life was boring and meaningless. One day, he     1     a butterfly（蝴蝶）in his room. The butterfly was trying to     2     outside. But it kept flying into the window every time. The butterfly thought it was the     3     way out. However, it became tired after some time     4     ended up flying into a spiderweb（蜘蛛网）in the corner of the window. Mike learned a lesson from that butterfly. He     5     to do something to make his life different. He wrote down the things that he didn’t like about his life     6     a piece of paper. He learned to love them and do something to make     7     feel better. He finally changed his     8     in a way that made him happy after a year. Now he knows     9     he needs to do is to take one different step at a time. And he is sure that it will make     10     big difference to his life.

【推荐1】根据短文内容及所给提示, 补全文中单词或用所给单词的正确形式填空。

Every summer holiday, I visit a city with my family. Last year, we went to New York. We had fun and stayed there for     1     week. This year, we decided to visit London because my friend Amy     2     (tell) me that it was very beautiful.

This morning I flew to London     3     my parents. On the plane, I watched a film and time seemed to go by     4     (quick). When we got to     5     (we) hotel, it was about three o’clock. The weather was wonderful, so we decided to visit one of London’s parks     6     (one). Amy showed me lots of photos of them before the trip and I knew London had many great parks.

We went to Hyde Park. There were trees everywhere in the park. Some     7     (bird) sang in them. We walked around and took quite a few photos. We were really     8     (surprise) at how beautiful the park was.

Tomorrow morning we will visit the Buckingham Palace first, and then I will go     9     (shop) with my mother.     10     will we buy? A lot!

【推荐2】阅读短文，在其后空白处写出各单词的正确形式。单词的第一个字母已给出。

To get a doctorate degree (博士学位) is not an easy thing. It’s much h    1     for a person who has cerebral palsy (脑瘫). But Zhang Dakui did it.

Zhang was born in a poor family in Henan. When he was little, a fever gave him cerebral palsy. At the age of 6, he could no longer s    2     up. His parents tied two bamboo poles (杆) b    3     two trees. Day after day, he held the poles to practice w    4    . Heavy snow, tears or blood—n    5     could stop him. At the age of 9, he started to walk with the help of a walking stick. He overcame many difficulties at school. In 2006, he became a graduate student. His dreams pushed him f    6    . He hoped to get a doctorate degree, but most professors turned him down after h    7     about his condition. F    8    , Professor Fan Xiaozhong from the Beijing Institute of Technology opened a door for Zhang. “I will not treat you d    9    . If you can pass the exams all by yourself, you can study with me for your doctor’s degree,” Fan said. Zhang passed all the exams. “Actually, I’m not as strong as you think. I just work hard on what I should do and what I can do. Only actions can c    10     our life,” Zhang said.

【推荐3】在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。每空格限填一词，首字母已给。

The night before Christmas, a man punished his five-year-old daughter for using up all of the family’s expensive wrapping paper. Money was tight (紧张的), and he became very a    1     when the child tried to wrap a box to put under the Christmas tree.

However, the next morning, the little girl, who was f    2     with excitement, brought the gift box to her father’s bedroom and said to him, “This is for you, Daddy! Merry Christmas and I love you!”

The father was embarrassed by his e    3     reaction (反应) to the little girl. But when he opened the box, he found it empty and lost his temper again. “Don’t you know, young lady,” he said, “Anytime you want to give someone a p    4    , it is necessary to put something inside the box!”

The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and said, “Daddy, it’s not empty. Last night, I blew kisses into it u    5     it was all full.”

The father fell on his knees and put his arms around his little girl. He begged her to forgive him for his anger.

After that, the father k    6     the little box by his bed for all the years of his life. Whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems, he would open the box c    7    , take out a kiss, and remember the love of his beautiful child who had put kisses in it. Then he could get through the darkness in his life.