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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 ________. It can set up a warm conversation between two people far apart; it can keep a friendship with very little effort.

I will give ________. A few years ago my older brother and I were not getting along. We had been close as _______ but had grown apart. Our meetings were not pleasant; our conversation was filled with arguments and quarrels; and every effort to clear the air seemed to only ________ our misunderstanding. Then he moved to a small island in the Caribbean and we ________ 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 write. Rereading the letter, I was ________ by its humor and clever expressions. These were all qualities for which I had once respected my older brother but ________ he no longer had them. I had never known he could write so well. And with that one letter we became friends ________.

It might never have occurred to my brother to write me if he had not been in a place where there were no ________. 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 easy communication, people often ________ that they don’t always have to phone or email. They have a choice. And that is to write.

1.
A.receivedB.rewrittenC.returnedD.reread
2.
A.an exampleB.a lessonC.an experienceD.a talk
3.
A.brothersB.childrenC.fellowsD.classmates
4.
A.deepenB.startC.expressD.settle
5.
A.lostB.kept inC.neededD.got in
6.
A.drivenB.beatenC.surprisedD.honored
7.
A.realizedB.judgedC.thoughtD.expected
8.
A.laterB.anyhowC.tooD.again
9.
A.mail servicesB.transportC.phonesD.relatives
10.
A.believeB.decideC.argueD.forget

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【推荐1】完形填空
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I lost my elderly mother a few weeks ago. Actually, my mother had fallen over during the night and had not been able to _______ again. She had woken up the neighbors by banging on the wall. The _______ called an ambulance, which took her _______ to the hospital.

My mother has _______ thought that hospitals are a real horror. She believes that doctors and hospitals give you _______ diseases. My father went to hospital a year ago, and after a few weeks, he _______. The fact that he was also in the final _______ of lung cancer was certainly related, but by my mother’s logic, my father’s death was _______ with the hospital.

When a neighbor _______ me up and told me that my mother had been taken off in an ambulance, the first thing I did was similar, which was to ring Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The paramedics (护理人员) had told my neighbor that my mother would__________be taken there, __________I was told that no one by that name had been__________, so they gave me the numbers of two other West Midland hospitals. Both of them also ________ that they were holding my mother. I rang the ________ and asked them to find her, but the nice officer said he could only do that if she had been reported as a(n) ________ person.

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2.
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【推荐3】I was not very close to my father. He was a quiet man who _________ showed his love. As I grew older, however, his silence became an invisible wall between us. I was _________ that he didn’t love me.

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