A man who knows how to write a personal letter has a very powerful tool.A letter can be enjoyed,read and  21 .  It can set up a warm conversation between two people far apart(遠(yuǎn)離的)；it can keep a 22  with very little effort.

I will give  23 .  A few years ago my older brother and I were not getting 24  We had been close as 25  but had grown apart. Our meetings were not 26 ; our conversation was filled with arguments and quarrels; and every effort to clear the air seemed to only 27  our misunderstanding. Then he 28  a small island in the Caribbean and we 29  touch .One day he wrote me a letter. He describeb his island and its people, told me what he was doing,said how he felt,and encouraged me to 30  . Rereading the letter, I was 31  by its humor(幽默)and clever expressions,These were all qualities for which I had 32  respected my order brother but 33  he no longer had them.I had never known he could write so 34  .And with that one letter we became friends 35.

It might never have occurred to 36  to write me if he had not been in a place where there were no 37  ,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 38 communication(通訊),people often 39  that they don’t always have to phone or email. They have a 40  . And that is to write.

21. A.received    B.rewritten  C.returned      D.reread

22.A.record      B.promise   C.friendship     D.secret

23.A.an example  B.a lesson   C.an experience  D.a talk

24.A. through     B.together  C.along         D.away

25.A.brothers     B.children   C.fellows       D.classmates

26.A.normal     B.necessary   C.pleasant     D.possible

27.A.deepen     B.start        C.express     D.settle

28.A.toured      B.stopped over  C.reached    D.moved to

29.A.lost        B.kept in       C.needed     D.got in

30.A.think       B.write        C.enjoy       D.read

31.A.driven      B.beaten      C.surprised     D.honored

32.A.never      B.seldom      C.sometimes    D.once

33.A.realized     B.judged      C.thought      D.expected

34.A.well       B.often        C.much        D.soon

35.A.later      B.anyhow      C.too          D.again 

36.A.us        B.anyone else   C.someone     D.my  brother

37.A.mail services  B.transport   C.phones      D.relatives

38.A.poor      B.easy         C.popular      D.busy

39A.believe    B.decide        C.argue       D. forget

40.A.habit     B.choice       C.method      D. plan

  21-25 DCACB

26-30 CADAB    31-35 ADCAD      36-40 DCBDB


解析:

【語(yǔ)篇解讀】在現(xiàn)代通訊方式如此發(fā)達(dá)的今天，作者卻用自己的親身經(jīng)歷向我們解釋了寫信這種古老卻獨(dú)具魅力的聯(lián)系方式帶給他的生活和意識(shí)上的變化。哥哥和他的通信聯(lián)系讓他留住親情，也感受到了愛的力量。

21. 在第二段第七句話的rereading說(shuō)明一封信帶給親人和朋友的力量，會(huì)促使收信者去欣賞這封新的內(nèi)容，一遍一遍的閱讀琢磨領(lǐng)會(huì)里面的含義。所以本空選D項(xiàng)。reread表示“反復(fù)閱讀；重讀”，符合收信者的心理。

22. 文章雖然是圍繞著作者和哥哥之間的故事展開，但是說(shuō)的是信帶給親人和朋友之間的紐帶作用，是維持一種關(guān)系的媒介，這四個(gè)選項(xiàng)里只有friendship表示一種關(guān)系，和本句的two people far away吻合。

23. 作者在以自己的親身經(jīng)歷說(shuō)明寫信帶給雙方的不可低估的作用，所以這里用example引起下文。

24. 從第26空所在句的arguments and quarrels說(shuō)明作者和哥哥的關(guān)系處的不好，這里考查到了短語(yǔ)get along，意為“和睦相處”，例如：He gets along well with his boss.他和老板相處得很好。get through意為“經(jīng)歷”，get together“聚會(huì)”和get away “逃脫”, 均不合題意。

25. 本句的had grown apart說(shuō)明在長(zhǎng)大了后兩人不和，而but表示轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，說(shuō)明兩人在孩提時(shí)代的關(guān)系很好，所以這里選children和grown對(duì)應(yīng)。

26. 本句的filled with arguments and quarrels說(shuō)明作者和哥哥的關(guān)系處的不好，所以兩人見面的時(shí)候總是那么不愉快。arguments and quarrels就是對(duì)not pleasant的解釋。

27.  使事情更糟糕的是，就是雙方做出努力也無(wú)濟(jì)于事，甚至?xí)由顑扇酥g的誤會(huì)，本句的seem to only說(shuō)明的事情的后果反而更嚴(yán)重，所以使用deepen表示“加深”，和and every effort的事與愿違對(duì)應(yīng)。

28. 兩人后來(lái)通過(guò)寫信聯(lián)系，說(shuō)明相隔甚遠(yuǎn)，和第一段第二句的far away吻合，說(shuō)明哥哥搬家搬到了很遠(yuǎn)的地方。

29. 本空和最后一段第三句話的get back形成對(duì)比，說(shuō)明哥哥搬家后和作者失去了聯(lián)系。

30. 作者的哥哥通過(guò)寫信來(lái)增進(jìn)和作者的聯(lián)系，為了進(jìn)一步加深兩人的親情，他鼓勵(lì)作者也寫信，正是因?yàn)檫@樣，作者意識(shí)到了信的力量。

31. 作者和哥哥以前缺乏交流，現(xiàn)在當(dāng)哥哥用筆墨將思想呈現(xiàn)在紙上的時(shí)候，作者發(fā)現(xiàn)了哥哥自己以前沒有了解到的一個(gè)方面，當(dāng)然感到很驚奇。

32. 本句用到了定語(yǔ)從句，先行詞是quality，在定語(yǔ)從句里做的是介詞for的賓語(yǔ)。本句句意為：“哥哥的這些品質(zhì)曾經(jīng)是我所尊重的，但是我以為他已經(jīng)沒有了這些東西。這里的once表示“曾經(jīng)“，是指作者在小的時(shí)候曾經(jīng)對(duì)哥哥所持有的感情。

33.本句的but說(shuō)明作者以為哥哥已經(jīng)丟棄了他所尊重的一些東西，26空所在句的arguments and quarrels對(duì)應(yīng)，當(dāng)然這只是作者的自己的想法，所以用think。

34. 本空和31空吻合，作者哥哥的行文和風(fēng)格叫他感到吃驚，說(shuō)明哥哥寫的很好。

35. 就是因?yàn)檫@封信，讓作者和哥哥又成為了朋友。就像回到了孩提時(shí)代一樣。

36. It occurs to sb to do sth 意為“某事發(fā)生在某人身上”，這里的第一個(gè)to是介詞，對(duì)于作者的經(jīng)歷而言，首先寫信的是自己的哥哥，也就是如果哥哥沒有搬到那么遠(yuǎn)的落后的島上，他是不會(huì)想到用那么古老的方式來(lái)和作者聯(lián)系的。所以這里的to的對(duì)象是針對(duì)作者的哥哥而言。

37. 第39空的don’t always have to phone or email說(shuō)明本空選C項(xiàng)，正是因?yàn)樵谝粋�(gè)沒有現(xiàn)代通訊方式的島上作者的哥哥才想到了寫信。而如果選A項(xiàng)，作者就收不到信了，所以不能選A。

38. 本句的we是針對(duì)我們所處的科技發(fā)達(dá)的大環(huán)境而言，結(jié)合生活實(shí)際答案不難選出，就是因?yàn)楝F(xiàn)代的通訊技術(shù)，使我們的生活更加輕松，這里的easy意為“輕松”。

39. 很多人都忘了其實(shí)不一定非要依靠電話或者電子郵件，寫信其實(shí)就是一種很好的方式。

40. 在phone，email等現(xiàn)代通訊沒有了的時(shí)候，作者認(rèn)為也有其他的選擇方式，那就是寫信。

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