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What’s this by my door? A handwritten letter from am old university friend. It stands out among the bills and junk mail like gold. Given its rareness, the Government should be praised for announcing that the new secondary school should include lessons that teach students how to write personal and business letters in the correct form.
Letter-writing skills have fallen off a lot in the age of eamils and text messages. Many pupils leave school only able to write a letter for a job application, let alone other kinds of letters. You can’t turn back the clock, but you can stick to your own rules to protect old-fashioned values. Someone who leaves school unable to write a letter is going into the adult world unprepared. And if teachers don’t ram home that message, who else will?
Usually, it does not matter whether someone can write a letter or not — other means of communication will serve. And with computerised spell-checks, people can get by for years without the kind of letter-writing skills. But it is the rare occasion that matters when things can not be made clear with a simple text. When the former England cricket(板球) captain Andrew Strauss decided to leave his job, he had sent handwritten letters to his teammates. Many people thought it unbelievable. But among the disbelief there was something else: admiration, even among the Twitter generation(一代).
I have been a letter-writing lover all my adult life, and am just about to sit down and pen a reply to my university friend. And I hope the sight of a letter by his door will give him as much pleasure as his did me.
How did the author feel when receiving the handwritten letter?

A．Disappointed.

B．Excited.

C．Worried.

D．Proud.

The underlined part“ram home that message”in Paragraph 2 means“______”.

A．teach the students the importance of letter writing

B．teach the students how to protect traditional values

C．teach the students the importance of communication

D．teach the students how to write letters of application

The author mentions Andrew Strauss’s example in order to show that________.

A．letter-writing skills are very important

B．handwritten letters can bring admiration

C．handwritten letters are more important than emails

D．whether someone can write a letter makes little difference

What’s the text mainly about?

A．A study on why handwritten letters become less popular.

B．A concern about the bad results of technology.

C．A call for more attention to letter writing.

D．A touching story between two friends.

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DIY gifts: A Drive For Creativity
　　In times when people are seeking innovation(创新),giving a DIY gift appears as one possibility for those who like to keep up with the times.A DIY gift may be especially suited to young people seeking to step out of the norm.Do it yourself and turn the most unexpected things into wonderfully creative gifts.
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　　Young people are interested in creaativity,fashion,romance and things that touch the emotions.In some cities,DIY gift shops are doing well and enjoying more and more customers.Do - it - yourself,as an alternative to ready - made gifts,often proves a more effctive way to expess feelings toward someone you care about.
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　　Operating a DIY gift shop brings its own challenges.Shops must offer a great variety of materials.They may be grass,trees,and humanshapes.Let your imagination run wild.Who knows what the next person through the door will be looking for?
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　　　A.creativity B.fashion C.romance D.limits
　　58.If you'd like to give your friend a DIY gift,you should look for matericals that show his/her _______.
　　　A.qualities B.preferences C.potential D.creativity
　　59.In the last paragraph,the sentence "who knows what the next person through the door will be looking for?" means that_______.
　　　A.A DIY gift shop must have a great variety of materials in store
　　　B.You should know what the customers will wwant
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　　As the country's economy continues to steam ahead,once popular forms of entertainment,such as Karaoke(卡拉OK),card games and even boxing bars,appear to be losting their attractiveness.Stressed out white - collar wokers are camping out on rooftops,smashing(砸）up restaurants,pretending to be children and even visiting cemeteries in a effort to ease the pressure of modern life.
　　Consider the members of Shanghai's Cat Rain club.By day,this group of young women work executive (决策管理的) jobs,but by night they climb buildings so they can spend the night on the roof."You feel relaxed when you're sitting on the roof,looking up to the sky and chatting with friends," said Gong Ying,25.
　　The stress of work is not just limited to people in Shanghai.A recently opened restaurant in Beijing encourages customers(顾客) to smash plates --- as long as they are willing to pay to replace them.Some workers even wish to return to their childhoods.Recently,hundreds of people took part in a festival in which adults pretended to be children.It was an adultsonly event,and participants could read comics and eat sweets all day.
　　Scenic places such as parks and rivers can also help people relax and put things in perspective.But a cemetery?
　　Cemetery companies in Shanghai organized visits to local graveyards for stressed - out workers in March.The participants were taken to quiet spots in the cemetery where they could think about life and their futures."Pressure may bring us unhappiness,but it doesn't mean we can't find ways out,"says Chen Bin,a rooftop camping fan with still some other interests."Life should be imaginative."
　　68.Peopel are going to those new activities mainly for ______.
　　　A.recreation   B.new ideas   C.physical refreshment   D.psychological relaxation
　　69.The underlined phrase "put things in perspective"in the 4th paragraph possibly means______.
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　　　B.the dead can be alive in our imagination
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　　What comes as a shock to many Westerners may be the unfriendly way that some Chinese treat waiters and waitresses in restaurants and bars. Over the last few years,as many in Beijing have made fortunes,I and many of my foreign friends have noticed a downturn in the treatment of those who work all hours and often live in terrible conditions to bring us our food,guard our homes and sell us clothes.It's not the common citizens,but the young nouveau riches(暴发户) Chinese in Beijing who are mostly guilty of this both social and human misbehavior.
　　It is not unusual to see and hear these people,especially the young women among their ranks,speaking rudely to the waiters and waitresses,as they sit there in the misguided belief that the latest mobile phone,a new car and designer clothes give them the right to talk to people like dirt.In one recent incident(事件) in an expensive restaurant near where I live ,I overheard the table next to me,two guys and a girl,tell the waitress "You really are stupid ",because she had brought them two glasses instead of three.They all burst into loud laughter as the young girl ran away to fetch another.In anther incident I saw a waitress reduced to tears as four well-dressed girls criticized everything from her accent to her looks.
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　　Here I'd like to leave you with the words from Confucius:"What you do not wish for yourself, do not "do to others."
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　　　A.common citizens B.waiters and the like
　　　C.young nouveau riches D.some foreigners
　　65.The two incidents mentioned in Paragraph 2 are used to show ______.
　　　A.waiters and waitresses can make excusable mistakes
　　　B.waitresses are usually too shy to be laughed at
　　　C.some Beijingers are too particular about restaurant service
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　　66.The young Beijingers are asked to set a good example in order to ______
　　　A.have good influence over foreigners
　　　B.leave a good impression on foreigners
　　　C.educate younger Chinese
　　　D.develop traditional Chinese culture
　　67.The origial title of the article is most likely to be _______.
　　　A.One Dark Side of the Bright Chinese Capital
　　　B.Beijing's Young Nouveau Riches,Watch Out
　　　C.Dno't Throw Away Good Manners,Please
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