第一节 完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A man who knows how to write a personal letter has a very powerful tool. A letter can be enjoyed, read and 1 . It can set up a warm conversation between two people far apart; it can keep a 2 with very little effort.
I will give 3 . A few years ago my older brother and I were not getting along well. We had been close as 4 but had grown apart. Our meetings were not 5 ; our conversation was filled with arguments and quarrels: and every effort to clear the air seemed to only 6 our misunderstanding. Then he 7 a small island in the Caribbean and we 8 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. Rereading the letter, I was 9 by its humor and clever expressions. These were all qualities for which I had 10 respected my older brother but 11 he no longer had them. I had never known he could write so well. And with that one letter we became friends 12 .
It might never have occurred to him to write me if he had not been in a place where there were no 13 . 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 14 communication, people often forget that they don’t always have to phone or email. They have a 15 . And that is to write.
1. A. received B. rewritten C. returned D. reread
2. A. record B. promise C. friendship D. secret
3. A. an example B. a lesson C. an experience D. a talk
4.A．brothers B. children C．fellows D．classmates
5. A．normal B. necessary C．pleasant D．possible
6. A．deepen B. start C．express D．settle
7. A．toured B. stopped over C．reached D．moved to
8. A．lost B. kept in C．needed D．got in
9.A．driven B. beaten C．surprised D．honored
10. A．never B. seldom C．sometimes D．once
11. A．realized B. judged C. thought D. expected．
12. A．later B. anyhow C. too D. again．
13. A．mail services B. transport services C. phones D. relative
14. A．poor B. easy C. popular D. busy
15.A. habit B. choice C. method D. plan