Ⅲ.综合运用

Pen Pals for 77 Years

Twice a month,Nona Avery sits down,picks up her pen and writes a letter to her best friend.The British woman has been d__1__it for 77 years.She has sent more than 1,500 letters to her pen pal in America.

The hobby started in 1942.Nona,then 12,was reading a magazine.Some ads in the m__2__were asking for pen pals.One of them caught Nona's eye.It was from Alice Powers.She lived in America and was also 12.“I was very excited,”Nona said.“I sat down immediately,wrote a letter,put it in an envelope—t__3__with a picture of myself—and posted it.”

Nona spent every day waiting for the postman.Two weeks later—which felt l__4__a lifetime—a reply dropped through the letterbox.“I was overjoyed,”Nona said.“There was a letter and a picture of my new friend.She was all the way on the other side of the world！”

Nona and Alice wanted to learn more about each other.They kept writing.The two found that they had a lot in c__5__.They liked the same books and the same films.

However,both Nona and Alice were too poor to afford a plane ticket.It was not until 1987 that they met.“I was excited to see the person I had been writing to for four d__6__,”Nona said.“We had a big hug and then sat down,chatting for hours.”

Now in their eighties，Nona and Alice are still writing to each other.And they still write by h__7___.“Writing is much more intimate（亲密而温馨的），so why shall we change the habit of a lifetime？”Nona said.“I'm so glad that I wrote that first letter 77 years ago.”

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