Lost in the Post
How would you feel if the letter you penned carefully and posted to your favorite star ended up in the recycling bin? That's where unopened fan mail sent to singer Taylor Swift was found in Nashville.___71___
Swift’s management said it was an accident, but dealing with piles of letters is a burden for most public figures.According to the BBC reporter Jon Kelly, at the height of his fame, Johnny Depp was said to receive up to 10,000 letters a week.___72___
The dawn of the digital age in which public figures with a Twitter account can be messaged directly has made the process easier.The White House says it deals with 20,000 messages addressed to President Barack Obama each day.
Some celebrities don’t want letters.In 2008, Beatles drummer Ringo Starr said that he would throw them out because he was too busy.___73___ Robert Pattinson, star of the Twilight films, claims that he reads tonnes and tonnes of letters from fans, which takes up almost all his free time.
Many artists, however, outsource(外包) the task of opening, reading and replying.Sylvia “Spanky” Taylor, 58, has run a service in California that does just that since 1987.___74___ Most letters are simply declarations of affection and admiration, she says.A few ask for money.A small number contain threats which require her to contact the celebrity’s security team and law enforcement.
The biggest problem for Taylor is working out how to deal with the correspondence(通信).Presents such as soft toys are sent to local hospitals, and most of the letters just get shredded and recycled.
___75___ For some, this is enough, according to Lynn Zubernis, an expert at West Chester University.She says that the relationship between fan and celebrity may exist only in the mind of the former but it comes from a deeply-rooted human need for community.
A.Others do attempt to get through it themselves.
B.In fact, there is no alternative to deal with the problem.
C.How could he have enough time to skim through these letters one by one?
D.Typically, correspondence is acknowledged by a photo with a printed “signature”.
E.Accordingly, the correspondence problem has been difficult for the computer to automate
F.She and her staff deal with up to 20,000 items of mail a month on behalf of 26 celebrities.
G.This incident has caused a wide public concern about how the public figures deal with the letters or mails from the fans.
书面表达 (本大题共____分。)
(1)假设你是红星中学高三(1)班的班长李华, 你们班的外教Lisa已经结束本学期的教学工作回到美国,请代表你们班给她写一封邮件。
邮件的内容包括:
1.询问她的近况;
2.回顾在外教课上的收获;
3.表达对她的感谢和祝福。
注意:
1.词数不少于50;
2.开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。
Dear
Lisa,________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
(2)
假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序,以“A visit to the Museum of the Anti-Japanese War”为题,给校刊“英语角”写一篇英文稿件,介绍你们班同学参观抗日战争纪念馆的过程。
注意:词数不少于60。
答案
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