We love letters. Just as John Donne, a poet, _________ it, “Letters, to me and my friends mean _________ greetings; they get souls together. Thanks to letters, friends who are _________ speak.” He wrote these words nearly 400 years ago. Today, in the age of instant text message, social media, and email, they _________ ring truer than ever, because writing or receiving a letter has become such a _________ event.
A UK-wide survey undertaken by Sunday Times suggests that one in four of us has not _________ a letter for at least 10 years. That’s ten years without the bitter-sweet _________ of pacing the floor waiting for the _________; ten years without recognizing the handwriting on the envelope and eagerly _________ the letter to read its content.
We ____________ not get them any more, but we still love handwritten letters. In the same survey, one third of ____________ people interviewed say that they ____________ the content of sentimental (充满情感的) letters. Shouldn’t we make ____________ to give our friends and families what they will treasure forever? Ann Bickley went online in 2013 and offered to handwrite a letter to anyone who ____________ her. Her website received 50,000 ____________ in its first three months. Five years later, she is still the main ____________ behind one-million-lovely-letter.com and has personally written 4,000 letters offering hope and ____________ to strangers.
The thought behind a letter ____________ as much as its contents. “I never tell anyone that ____________ is going to be OK,” Ann Bickley says, “I am letting someone know that there is someone in the world who ____________ them.”
Who wouldn’t love to receive a letter like that? Let’s get writing!
1.A.made | B.put | C.helped | D.managed |
2.A.rather than | B.less than | C.more than | D.other than |
3.A.absent | B.active | C.amused | D.admirable |
4.A.also | B.yet | C.already | D.still |
5.A.popular | B.common | C.rare | D.simple |
6.A.received | B.sent | C.written | D.rejected |
7.A.success | B.pleasure | C.concern | D.calmness |
8.A.engineer | B.doctor | C.police | D.postman |
9.A.seizing | B.tearing | C.hiding | D.carrying |
10.11.A.American | B.Chinese | C.Australian | D.British |
12.A.forget | B.change | C.remember | D.notice |
13.A.money | B.room | C.history | D.time |
14.A.contacted | B.interviewed | C.consulted | D.admired |
15.A.guests | B.visitors | C.friends | D.partners |
16.A.force | B.strength | C.source | D.energy |
17.A.effort | B.comfort | C.surprise | D.experience |
18.A.educates | B.guides | C.matters | D.rewards |
19.A.nothing | B.anything | C.something | D.everything |
20.A.looks after | B.cares about | C.struggles for | D.agrees with |