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Have you ever dreamed about sending a letter to yourself or your friends in the future? While express mail(快递) is a fast way to send your letters, there is another type of mail appearing in China as a new business—future mail.

“The letter should be sent next Mother’s Day and not a day earlier!” Lin Xiaofan, a college student in Shanghai, tells one of the companies offering the service.

Lin Xiaofan wrote the letter to her mother nearly a year earlier to express her love to her mother for next Mother’s Day.

“Offering this service makes people slow down and lets them understand the meaning of ‘time’ in another way,” said Zheng Zhimin, manager at a “future mail” company. Zheng thinks “future mail” letters help remind us of care, friendship and love.

While “future mail” is becoming more and more popular, some people are wondering what will happen if the postal address changes or if the company goes broken before the letters arrive.

Zheng said customers are glad to sign a contract(签订合同) to make sure that they can becompensatedif their letters are lost or damaged.

Most of the customers are college students and young white-collar(白领) workers. Psychologists (心理学家) said that young Chinese might have a new way to express their feelings through this service. Most people put their hopes and wishes in the letter so that they can experience the connection(联系) between the past and the present when they receive the letter.

1.“Future mail” is a/an ______ way to send your letter.

A. fast B. old

C. new D. cheap

2.The underlined word “compensate” means ______ in Chinese.

A. 赔偿 B. 完成

C. 送达 D. 抛弃

3.The “future mail” service is popular among ______.

A. junior students B. college students

C. young children D. blue-collar workers

4.The “future mail” service can help us ______.

A. sign a contract

B. express our love and care

C. forget friendship

D. understand the meaning of “time” in a wrong way

5.You’d better use “future mail” if you want to ______.

A. save money from sending express mail

B. send a birthday gift to your friend quickly

C. talk with your friends about your life freely

D. send a your best wishes to yourself on January 1, 2020

I first had physics lessons when I was in Grade Eight some years ago. In class, I _______

that there wasn’t a Nobel (诺贝尔奖) Prize winner from China. That made me sad, _______ I decided

to change (改变) it. So after that, I got up early in the morning. I _______ the light and took out a

physics book. Then I started _______ quietly. I worked so hard because I had a great _______ — one

day, I would be the first _______ person to win the Nobel Prize in physics.

Later on, I found physics at school too easy for me. I wanted to learn _______, so I made a

reading plan and started to find answers to more _______ problems.

Now I am a top _______ in physics. I won the first prize in the national physics competition last month. And I am ________to be closer to my dream after a few ________ hard work. Of course, ________ I have some problems. My classmates always ________ me when they are talking about fashion (时尚)

or pop stars, because I know ________ about them. “Well, that doesn’t matter too much,” I tell

myself. “They don’t know much about ________ or the space , but I won’t laugh at them.”

1.A. joined B. heard C. studied. D. listened

2.A. for. B. but C. and. D. because

3.A. turned on . B. turned off C. turned up. D. turned down

4.A. writing B. reading C. thinking D. seeing

5.A. dream B. idea C. plan. D. work

6.A. Chinese. B. China. C. Canada D. American

7.A. little. B. less C. more D. much

8.A. interesting B. boring. C. easy D. difficult

9.A. student. B. teacher C. engineer D. scientist

10.A. happy. B. funny C. surprised D. sad

11.A. days’ B. weeks’ C. months’ D. years’

12.A. usually. B. always C. hardly D. sometimes

13.A. depend on B. look at C. laugh at D. look after

14.A. anything B. nothing C. everything D. something

15.A. physics B. fashion C. pop stars D. competitions

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