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课时作业九 完形填空提分练1
Passage 1 (2023·重庆模拟预测)
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 still ring truer than ever, because writing or receiving a letter has become such a __4__ event.
A UKwide survey undertaken by Sunday Times suggests that one in four of us has not __5__ a letter for at least 10 years. That's ten years without the sweet pleasure of pacing the floor waiting for the __6__; ten years without recognizing the handwriting on the envelope and eagerly __7__ the letter to read its content.
We may not get them any more, but we still love handwritten letters. In the same survey, one third of __8__ people interviewed say that they remember the content of sentimental (充满情感的) letters. Shouldn't we make __9__ to give our friends and families what they will treasure forever? Ann Bickley went online in 2017 and offered to handwrite a letter to anyone who __10__ her. Her website received 50,000 __11__ in its first three months. Five years later, she is still the main force behind onemillionlovelyletter.com and has personally written 4,000 letters offering hope and __12__ to strangers.
The thought behind a letter __13__ as much as its contents. “I never tell anyone that __14__ is going to be OK,” Ann Bickley says, “I am letting someone know that there is someone in the world who __15__ them.” Who wouldn't love to receive a letter like that? Let's get writing!
【语篇解读】 本文是一篇夹叙夹议的文章。通过安·比克利的故事倡议大家抽时间给家人和朋友写充满感情的信件。
1.A.made B.put
C.helped D.managed
【答案】 B 考查动词词义辨析。句意:我们喜欢信件。正如诗人约翰·多恩所说“对我和我的朋友来说,信件不仅仅意味着问候;它们把灵魂凝聚在一起。”A.made制作;B.put说;C.helped帮助;D.managed 管理。根据下文“Letters, to me and my friends mean __2__ greetings; they get souls together. Thanks to letters, friends who are __3__ speak.(对我和我的朋友来说,信件不仅仅意味着问候;