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I was one of the only kids in college who had a reason to go to the post office box at the end of the day, and that was mainly because my mother has never 17 email, Facebook, texting or cellphones in general. And so while other kids were BBM-ing their parents,I was literally waiting by the mailbox to get a letter from home to see how the weekend had gone, which was a little frustrating when Grandma was in the hospital, but I was just looking for some sort of scribble, some unkempt cursive from my mother.
And so when I moved to New York City after college and got completely sucker-punched in the face by depression, I did the only thing I could think of at the time.I wrote those same kinds of letters that my mother had written me for 18 ,and tucked them all throughout the city, dozens and dozens of them.I left them everywhere, in cafes and in libraries, at the U.N.,everywhere. I blogged about those letters and the days when they were necessary, and I posed a kind of crazy promise to the Internet: that if you asked me for a hand-writen letter, I would write you one,no questions asked.Overnight, my inbox morphed into this 19 of heartbreak--a single mother in Sacramento, a girl being bullied in rural Kansas, all asking me, a 22-year-old girl who barely even knew her own coffee order, to write them a love letter and give them a 20 to wait by the mailbox.
Today I fuel a global organization that is fueled by those trips to the mailbox, fueled by the ways in which we can harness social media like never before to write and mail strangers letters when they need them most, but most of all, fueled by crates of mail like this one, my trusty mail crate, filled with the scriptings of ordinary people, strangers writing letters to other strangers not because they're ever going to meet and laugh over a cup of coffee, but because they have 21 one another by way of letter-writing.
They're the ones from my generation, the ones of us that have grown up into a world where everything is paperless, and where some of our best 22 have happened upon a screen. We have leamed to diary our pain onto Facebook, and we speak swiftly in 140 characters or less.
23 ,letter-writing will never again need to flip back her hair and talk about efficiency, because she is an 24 form now, all the parts of her, the signing, the scripting, the mailing, the doodles in the margins. The mere fact that somebody would even just sit down, 25 a piece of paper and think about someone the whole day 26 We still clutch close these letters to our chest, to the words that speak louder than loud, when we turn pages into palettes to say the things that we have needed to say, the words that we have needed to write, to sisters and brothers and even to strangers, for far too long.
| 17.A.checked in | B.filled in | C.handed in | D.believed in |
| 18.A.clerks | B.librarians | C.strangers | D.governors |
| 19.A.harbor | B.origin | C.area | D.place |
| 20.A.right | B.reason | C.choice | D.duty |
| 21.A.spotted | B.attracted | C.found | D.made |
| 22.A.conversations | B.researches | C.businesses | D.discussions |
| 23.A.Otherwise | B.Instead | C.Somehow | D.However |
| 24.A.life | B.art | C.literature | D.expression |
| 25.A.put out | B.pick out | C.pull out | D.clear out |
| 26.A.through | B.down | C.out | D.off |
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本文源自TED 演讲《给陌生人的一封情书》,演说者Hannah Brencher。汉娜的妈妈常给她写信。大学毕业后,她感到心情跌到谷底的时候,她做了自己感觉很自然的事——给陌生人写情信并留待他们发现。这个行动后来成了一项全球活动,世界需要更多情信,将手写信送到需要的人怀中。
17.D 【解析】上大学时,我是唯一一个需要在一天结束的时候去开邮箱的人,主要是因为我妈妈从不信赖电子邮件、社交网站、短信,甚至电话。 A.checked in 登记;B.filled in充满;C.handed in上交;D.believed in信任,信赖。根据语境, 故选D。
18.C 【解析】就像妈妈给我手写家书一样我也给遍布全城的陌生人写信。十多封十多封地写,我把它们留在城市的各个角落,咖啡馆、图书馆,甚至联合国总部, 到处都有。根据语境,是写给陌生人的信,故选C。
19.A【解析】一夜之间,我的邮箱成了寄托心碎故事的港湾。根据语境,故选A。
20.B 【解析】给陌生人写情书,好让他们也有个理由守候在邮箱旁。根据语境, 故选B。
21.C【解析】给陌生人写信不是因为他们会见面, 一起喝咖啡聊聊天,而是因为通过写信而找到彼此。根据语境,故选C。
22.A【解析】在我们这一代成长的世界, 一切都是无纸化的,而我们一些最好的对话都发生在屏幕里。根据语境,故选A。
23.D【解析】但是这些手写信件永远都不需要讲究时效,因为她现在就是一种艺术形式,所有的一切,署名,手写体,邮寄,页边的涂画都是艺术。与上文现在是无纸化时代, 一切对话都发生在屏幕上,形成转折,故选D。
24.B【解析】但是这些手写信件永远都不需要讲究时效,因为她现在就是一种艺术形式,所有的一切,署名,手写体,邮寄,页边的涂画都是艺术。根据语境, 故选B。
25.C【解析】事实上是有人会真的坐下来,摊开一张纸,花一天时间想念一个人。 A.put out熄灭;伸出;出版; B.pick out挑出;C.pull out离开;取出,摊开;渡 过难关; D.clear out把……清理出。这里表示“取出摊开一张纸来写信”,故选 C.pull out,
26.A【解析】花一天时间想念一个人。the whole day through意为“一整天”,故 选A。
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