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A man who knows how to write a personal letter has a very powerful tool. A letter can be enjoyed, read
and
1 . It can set up a warm conversation between two people far apart (远离的); it can keep a
2 with
very little effort.
I will give
3 . A few years ago my older brother and I were not getting
4 . We had been close as
5 but had grown apart. Our meetings were not
6 ; our conversation was filled with arguments and quarrels;
and every effort to clear the air seemed to only
7 our misunderstanding. Then he
8 a small island in the
Caribbean and we
9 touch. One day he wrote me a letter. He described his island and its people, told me
what he was doing, said how he felt, and encouraged me to
10 . Rereading the letter, I was
11 by its humor
and clever expressions. These were all qualities for which I had
12 respected my older brother but
13 he no
longer had them. I had never known he could write so
14 . And with that one letter we became friends
15 .
It might never have occurred to
16 to write me if he had not been in a place where there were no
17 .
For him, writing was a necessity. It also turned out to be the best way for us to get back in touch. Because
we live in an age of
18 communication (通讯), people often
19 that they don't always have to phone or
email. They have a
20 . And that is to write.
( )1. A. received ( )2. A. record ( )3. A. an example ( )4. A. through ( )5. A. brothers ( )6. A. normal ( )7. A. deepen ( )8. A. toured ( )9. A. lost ( )10. A. think ( )11. A. driven ( )12. A. never ( )13. A. realized ( )14. A. well ( )15. A. later ( )16. A. us ( )17. A. mail services ( )18. A. poor ( )19. A. believe ( )20. A. habit |
B. rewritten B. promise B. a lesson B. together B. children B. necessary B. start B. stopped over B. kept in B. write B. beaten B. seldom B. judged B. often B. anyhow B. anyone else B. transport services B. easy B. decide B. choice |
C. returned C. friendship C. an experience C. along C. fellows C. pleasant C. express C. reached C. needed C. enjoy C. surprised C. sometimes C. thought C. much C. too C. someone C. phones C. popular C. argue C. method |
D. reread D. secret D. a talk D. away D. classmates D. possible D. settle D. moved to D. got in D. read D. honored D. once D. expected D. soon D. again D. my brother D. relatives D. busy D. forget D. plan |