Question

【题目】 Fill in the blanks with proper words （在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词， 首字母已给）

Do you remember when you wrote a letter last time? If the answer is “not recently”, don’t worry. You are not a 【1】 .

A survey of 1,000 teenagers around the world done by a French company BIC found that a third of today’s teenagers had never written a letter, half had not written a thank-you letter, and a quarter had not even written a birthday or Christmas card. In fact, 58 percent of teenagers c【2】 that handwriting was “too slow” and 17 percent believed it was “outdated”.

These results have caused w【3】that the art of handwriting may one day die out.

“Hand-writing” is one of the most c【4】 art forms we have and should be given the same importance as other art form such as painting, or photography,” Jonathan Skyrme, general manager at BIC UK & Ireland, told the Daily Mail.

The New York Times once explained that a handwritten letter sends a message in a way that o【5】messages can never do. “When you get an email, you can never be sure that you are the o 【6】 person to have received it -- or even that it was written by the person who sent it,” said the newspaper.

As US author Simon Garfield once wrote, “Emails are a poke（蜻蜓点水）, but letters are a loving touch.” So imagine the powerful message you send when you actually write out your thought by hand, buy a stamp, take it to a mailbox, and wait days for your special s【7】to receive it.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】alone

【2】complained

【3】worries

【4】creative

【5】online

【6】only

【7】stranger

【解析】

作者通过这篇文章向我们介绍了关于青少年是否写信的调查，事实显示如今大多数青少年都没写过信，并比较了电子邮件与写信的各自的优点。

【1】句意：你还记得你上一次写信是什么时候吗？如果答案是：“不是最近”，没关系，并不是只有你。

空格前are是系动词，后接形容词，作表语。根据下文“A survey of 1,000 teenagers around the world done by a French company BIC found that a third of today’s teenagers had never written a letter”，通过调查可知，大部分的青少年都从未写过一封信，根据提示字母，可推测空格处要表述你并不孤单。故答案为alone。

【2】句意：事实上，58%的青少年抱怨手写信太慢了，17%的青少年认为它已经过时了。

根据句子结构，that引导的是一个宾语从句，空格处是谓语动词，从句中was是一般过去时，所以主句的谓语动词也用一般过去时。根据句意，空格后表述的内容是手写信的不好一面，结合空格处所给的字母，用动词complainted表示抱怨。故答案为complainted.

【3】句意：这些结果让人们担心，手写艺术可能有一天将会消失。

根据句子结构为一个宾语从句，主语谓语动词cause，后面接名词。根据“the art of handwriting may one day die out”阐述了作者的担忧，所以空格用worry表示担忧，是可数名词，空格前没有不定冠词修饰，所以要用名词复数形式。故答案为worries。

【4】句意：手写是最有创造力的艺术之一，应该跟其他类似喷绘，摄影等艺术给予同样的重视程度。

最高级的固定用法one+of+the+形容词最高级+名词复数，表示最…之一。空格处的形容词是修饰art，结合语境，和空格处所给的首字母，可推测是最有创造力艺术形式之一。故答案为creative。

【5】句意：纽约时报曾经抱怨，一个手写信在某种程度上传递了一种信息，这是在线消息永远做不到的。

空格处后messages是可数名词复数，前用形容词修饰。根据下文When you get an email，email属于在线的消息，根据首字母提示，空格处用online。故答案为online。

【6】句意：当你收到一封邮件时，你永远不会确定你是唯一一个收到它的人，甚至你也不知道是谁写的。

空格处后person是可数名词，前用形容词修饰。空格处的句子是在描述在线消息的弊端，结合句意，当你收到邮件时，是无法确定你是唯一的收件人，结合首字母提示，空格处填only。故答案为only。

【7】句意：所以，想象一下你所传递的强大信息，当你用手写出你内心的感受，买一张邮票，把它放到邮箱里，等待着特别的人收到它。

空格前special是形容词，所以空格处是名词。根据前文“Emails are a poke, but letters are a loving touch”，可知，我们是把信寄给对我们特别的人。结合首字母，填写stranger。故答案为stranger。