【推荐1】阅读下面短文,在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。（每空不超过三个单词）

My good friend Mary is my cousin. She is three years younger than me. I am fourteen years old and she is eleven now. She is     1     (tall) than me. She is very friendly and outgoing, so she has many friends. She is talented in music and wants to be a     2     (sing) when she grows up.

When she was six, she started     3     (learn) singing. She wants to be a great singer,     4     she says it’s difficult. She practices     5     (sing) every day. She often sings in shows and I love listening to her singing. We talk about everything together and we     6     (usual) share something interesting with each other. As     7     old saying goes “A true friend reaches for your hand and     8     (touch) your heart,” Mary is a friend like this.

Mary is very busy because she also studies photography (摄影) in     9     (she) free time. She takes lots of     10     (photo). They are all very wonderful. I am lucky that I have so good a friend.

【推荐3】Lucy is    1    （冠词）12-year-old girl. She     2     (have) short brown hair. She likes     3     (play) tennis because she thinks it is very interesting . She’s now in Grade
    4    （four）and is good at all the subjects at school. She often gets good grades.    5    ( she) favourite color is blue. She likes wearing blue clothes. Her favourite fruit is bananas. Her mother often buys them for     6    （代词）in the supermarket.
Lucy has a good friend. His name is Tom. He is a 9-year-old boy     7    （介词）black hair. He enjoys     8     (play) football. He often plays it after school. He likes listening
    9     (介词)music and watching cartoons. Now he is learning how    10    （speak）Chinese. He thinks it is very helpful to him.

【推荐1】Strange School Rules

As students, we are all familiar with school rules. But some rules are strange. Here are two strange school rules. Do you think     1     are reasonable?

No red ink （墨水）

Teachers usually mark our homework     2     red ink. The bright color     3       (use) to point out all our mistakes. However, red ink is banned（禁止）    4    （strict）by many schools in Australia and the U.K. Some people think that red ink can influence kids' feelings     5     the color makes them fear and puts pressure on them. They think green, pink, yellow, purple and blue are more relaxing.

    6     hand-raising

While students are taking     7     (course), it's common for them to raise their hands in class to answer questions. However, the raising of one's hand has been banned in a school in Nottinghamshire, England. The headmaster of the school     8     (believe) that teachers always only see the same students rising their hands. This doesn't encourage the learning of the students who are     9     (silent). Now, thanks to the rule, a teacher can choose any student     10     (answer) the question. The students are becoming more active.

【推荐2】Do you plan to go to Hong Kong Disneyland with your family? If your dad smokes, you may want to ask him to be c    1    . From January 1, Hong Kong banned（禁止）smoking in most public places.

The places include restaurants, workplaces, h    2    , schools or karaoke lounges (卡拉OK厅). Even smoking at some outdoor places is against the law(触犯法律). For example, beaches, sports grounds, museums and most areas of public parks.

Hong Kong h    3     the ban can prevent(阻止) passive smoking. What is passive smoking? When people smoke in a restaurant or on a bus, others are forced (被迫地) to breathe the smoke, t    4    . They don't want to smoke but they have no choice (选择). This is passive smoking. It is b    5     for people's health. Hong Kong has 7 million people. Among them, about 840,000 people are smokers. It'll be better if m    6     people in Hong Kong stop smoking because of the ban.

【推荐3】阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或单词的提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的单词，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。

American girls Isabelle and Isabella are cousins. As good     1     (child) of a primary school, they think following rules are very     2     /ɪmˈpɔ:tnt/. One day, Isabella got an idea of making a book of rules. She said, “I hope the book can help Isabelle and me and our brothers and    3     to be polite children. If anyone     4     (break) the rules, he or she has to sit at the door for five    5     /'mɪnɪts /.”

The two girls     6     (begin) writing their book of rules. Some rules like “do your homework” are like the rules of school. Others such as “no eating other     7     (people) food” and “don’t bite the dentist” are very interesting.

    8     girls love their book of rules very much. But one day they lost    9     in the Walmart parking lot. Luckily, they got it     10     /bæk/ with many people’s help. A publishing house even published it.