【推荐1】There are all kinds of machines. They_______in many different ways. One kind of machine is called a computer. A computer can do many things. A computer can do math problems. People can also do math problems. But they cannot do it_______a computer.
Computers remember things. Computers do_______people tell them. People cannot remember as many things as computers. Computers help tell_______the weather will_______. Computers help fly rockets and spaceships.
These are_______of ways computers are used. They are used in_______ways. Some computers do just_______things. Some computers can do a lot of things. There are_______computers. There are big computers. There may be computers in your school. Do you__________what they do?1.

A．use

B．are used

C．are using

D．will use

2.

A．faster than

B．as fast as

C．more quickly than

D．so big as

3.

A．something

B．that

C．everything

D．things

4.

A．Which

B．where

C．what

D．why

5.

A．be like

B．be

C．look

D．feel

6.

A．all

B．many

C．a lot

D．only some

7.

A．thousand

B．thousands

C．thousand of

D．thousands of

8.

A．a little

B．little

C．few

D．a few

9.

A．large

B．huge

C．good

D．small

10. .

A．get

B．talk

C．make

D．know

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Every morning, my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every day, I open my books in class and start my lessons. Every evening, my mother _________ magazines at home. And every night, I look at the photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we imagine life without paper or printing?

Paper was first _________ about 2,000 years ago in China. After its invention, people started to write on paper to make books. In those days, books were only produced one at a time   _______. As a result, there were not many books, and they were expensive. So _________ people had the chance to learn to read.

Printing was invented in China during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Later, developments in printing made it possible to produce books more quickly and cheaply. A _________ in books resulted, and more people learned to read. Knowledge and ideas _________ faster than ever before. In a way, we can compare the invention of paper and printing _________ the introduction of the Internet in the twentieth century.

Although the Internet is still young, it is growing very fast, and many become more powerful than printing. A much larger _________ of information can be stored in more varied _________ on the Internet than in books. Someone with an Internet connection can find information easily. And the machines we use to read it are now small and light.

Computers and the Internet are used in classrooms now, and newspapers and magazines are already read online. So what direction will traditional printing __________ in the future? Will books be replaced by the Internet? Let’s wait and see.

1.

A．looks up

B．looks through

C．looks into

D．looks forward

2.

A．created

B．resulted

C．appeared

D．introduced

3.

A．with hands

B．by hands

C．with hand

D．by hand

4.

A．many

B．much

C．little

D．few

5.

A．change

B．trade

C．business

D．commerce

6.

A．spreaded

B．were spread

C．spreading

D．spread

7.

A．to

B．with

C．as

D．for

8.

A．lot

B．number

C．plenty

D．amount

9.

A．shapes

B．forms

C．characters

D．types

10.

A．choose

B．find

C．take

D．use

【推荐3】Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文）

The Museum of Failure

History may be written by the winners，but we should not ignore the losers．At least，that's what the Museum of Failure wants us to believe．

Displaying around 80examples of failed products，businesses and ideas，the newly opened museum in Helsingborg，Sweden，celebrates modern history's _____ designs．But as well as exhibiting long﹣forgotten failures，founder Dr．Samuel West is on a task to help us learn from our mistakes．

‘I hope that visitors take home two messages：that success is always _____ failure，and that they should understand the importance of learning from failure，'said Dr．West．Most of all innovation（创新）projects fail，and learning is the only way to turn failure into success，according to the museum's website．

‘The purpose of the museum is to show that innovation_____ failure，'Dr．West said as he introduced some of the exhibits in a video．‘If you are afraid of failure，then you can't innovate．'His purpose of starting the museum was to encourage organizations to be better at learning from failures instead of ignoring them and pretending they_____ happened．

Based on Leo Tolstoy's‘Happy families are all alike； every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way，'Dr West has created a similar _____ for his museum：‘All successful innovations are alike； all failed innovations fail in their own interesting and spectacular（惊人的）way．'

The museum's items make Dr West more deeply believe that poorly﹣designed products have little in common with one another．One of the items，_____，is a frozen beef lasagne（意式千层面）made by Colgate，a company that makes toothpaste．He described this as a classic case of‘brand extension（品牌扩展）failure．'

A collection of nine objects from the museum is on tour，stopping in Miami，Berlin and Amsterdam and then will visit Los Angeles，New York，Shanghai and Tokyo in 2018and 2019．

1.

A．latest

B．worst

C．different

D．simple

2.

A．connected with

B．pleased with

C．known as

D．ready for

3.

A．develops

B．refuses

C．discovers

D．requires

4.

A．really

B．always

C．never

D．actually

5.

A．saying

B．situation

C．chance

D．problem

6.

A．as a result

B．in addition

C．for example

D．in a word．