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第4课时 Assessing Your Progress & Video Time [见学生用书P29]
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We love letters.Just as John Donne,a poet,__1__ it,“Letters,to me and my friends mean __2__ greetings;they get souls together.Thanks to letters,friends who are __3__ speak.” He wrote these words nearly 400 years ago.Today,in the age of instant text message,social media,and email,they __4__ ring truer than ever,because writing or receiving a letter has become such a __5__ event.
A UKwide survey suggests that one in four of us has not __6__ a letter for at least 10 years.That's ten years without the bittersweet __7__ of pacing the floor waiting for the __8__;ten years without recognising the handwriting on the envelope and eagerly __9__ the letter to read its content.
We __10__ not get them anymore,but we still love handwritten letters.In the same survey,one third of __11__ people interviewed say that they always __12__ the content of sentimental(充满情感的)letters till now.Shouldn't we make __13__ 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 __14__ her.Her website received 50,000 __15__ in its first three months.Five years later,she is still the main __16__ behind the website and has personally written 4,000 letters offering hope and __17__to strangers.
The thought behind a letter __18__ as much as its contents.“I never tell anyone that __19__ is going to be OK,” Ann Bickley says,“I am letting someone know that there is someone in the world who __20__ them.”
Who wouldn't love to receive a letter like that?Let's get writing!
语篇解读:本文是一篇充满感性的议论文。随着科技的发展,人们越来越不爱写传统的信件了。但是很多时候我们会发现,信件传递着感情,于是作者呼吁要“重拾尺牍情”。
( B )1.A.made B.put
C.helped D.managed
( C )2.A.rather than B.less than
C.more than D.other than
( A )3.A.absent B.active
C.amused D.admirable
( D )4.A.also B.yet
C.already D.still
( C )5.A.popular B.common
C.rare D.simple
( A )6.A.received B.sent
C.written D.rejected
( B )7.A.success B.pleasure
C.co