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范畴:人与社会 主题:人际交往 体裁:记叙文 难度:★★★★ 建议用时:8分钟 评价:/10
根据短文内容及所给首字母提示写出所缺单词,使短文意思完整,每空一词。
Many years ago, my dad worked in a 1. c hospital.
A girl in the hospital had a strange disease. She couldn't move her hands 2. o feet. She could only 3. m her head. She lay in bed every day and she was very sad. Even the doctors couldn't help her.
My dad decided to try to help her. He brought 4. p, paints and brushes to her room. He put up paper 5. o the wall, put the brush in his mouth and began to paint. He didn't use his hands at all. He only moved his head. My dad told the girl, "Look, you can do 6. a you want to do."
Soon, the girl began to paint by using her own mouth. She and my dad became good 7. f. But one day my dad fell ill and he had to stay at home.
Two months 8. l, my dad went back to the children's hospital. When he went into the hospital, the girl gave him a big smile. She showed my dad a picture and said, "I drew this picture 9. w my mouth. Thank you for 10. h me."
My dad cried every time he told us this story. He would say, "Sometimes love is more powerful than doctors."

本文讲述了作为医生的父亲用爱来帮助病人的故事。
1. children's 根据第五段中的 my dad went back to the children's hospital 可知，此处指很多年前作者的爸爸在一家儿童医院工作，故此处答案应该填名词所有格 children's。
2. or 根据 couldn't 可知，此句是否定句，需要用 or 来连接。
3. move 她手脚都动不了，只能移动头，情态动词 could 后跟动词原形。
4. paper 根据后文“He put up paper ...”可知，他带来了纸。
5. on 根据句意理解可知，此处用固定短语 on the wall，意为“在墙上”。
6. anything 根据句意理解可知，此处表示“任何事情”，要用 anything。
7. friends 此处是说他们成了好朋友，故此处答案应该填名词复数 friends。
8. later 两个月后，作者的父亲回到了儿童医院，two months later 是“两个月之后”的意思。
9. with 句意：我用嘴画了这幅画。with 意为“用”。
10. helping 女孩对父亲的帮助表示感谢，此处用动词短语 thank sb. for doing sth.，意思为“感谢某人做某事”。

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范畴:人与自我 主题:自我认识 体裁:说明文 难度:★★★ 建议用时:7分钟 评价:/10
阅读短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词,或用括号内所给单词的正确形式填空。
Look at this picture! A group of young people sit as they look at their mobile devices. These days we also find a lot of people around us always spend hours 1. (look) at their phones. Why? A possible answer is that they just feel bored. Why don't we like feeling bored?
What is boredom?
Boredom is a kind of feeling. There are two 2. (type) of boredom: meaningless and attentional(注意力相关的). The 3. (one) type happens when we don't find meaning in our actions. The second type comes when people find it too difficult 4. (focus) on something. For example, students might say that math is boring. That is because it's too difficult 5. them.

Is boredom bad?
Boredom is neither good nor bad. What 6. (matter) is our attitude. For example, we may find a math problem boring. If we can't deal with our feelings well, we might just give up and feel bad.
7. things change when we can control our feelings and try to solve the problem. Boredom can then become 8. good chance to learn new things.
Are we more bored now?
No, boredom is not a new thing. Over 2,000 years ago, people already 9. (feel) bored. However, it is now much 10. (easy) to get away from boredom because of things like phones. But because we are always using them, we might be worse at dealing with boredom.
素材来源:21世纪英语网

本文主要探讨了无聊的定义、类型及其影响，并指出对待无聊的态度决定了它能否成为学习新事物的机会。
1. looking 根据空格前的动词 spend 可知，此处用动词短语 spend time doing sth.，意思为“花费时间做某事”。
2. types 根据空格前的基数词 two 可知，此处名词应该用复数形式，故此处答案应该填 types。
3. first 根据后句中的序数词 second 可知，此处答案应该填序数词 first。
4. to focus 此处用固定结构“find it + 形容词 + to do sth.”，意思为“发现做某事是……”。
5. for 句意：那是因为这对他们来说太难了。根据句意理解可知，此处应该填介词 for，意思为“对……来说”。
6. matters 此句是一个复合句，主语从句的主语是特殊疑问词 What，其后谓语动词应该用第三人称单数形式，故此处答案应该填 matters。
7. But 根据句意理解可知，上下文是转折关系，故此处答案应该填连词 but，注意句首单词首字母要大写。
8. a 无聊可以成为一个学习新事物的好机会。根据句意理解可知，此处答案应该填不定冠词 a。
9. felt 根据 Over 2,000 years ago 可知，谓语动词应该用过去式，故此处答案应该填 felt。
10. easier 根据空格前的副词 much 可知，其后接形容词比较级形式，故此处答案应该填 easier，意思为“更容易的”。