Passage 37
学霸导读 随着科技的迅速发展，手写信件逐渐被短信和邮件替代。手写信件有着电子信件所没有的魅力，而手写这一富有创造力的艺术形式也应得以传承。
Do you remember when you wrote a letter last time? If the answer is “not recently”, don’t worry. You are not a 1 .
A survey of 1,000 teenagers around the world done by a French company BIC found that a third of today’s teenagers had never written a letter, half had not written a thank-you letter, and a quarter had not even written a birthday or Christmas card. In fact, 58 percent of teenagers c 2 that handwriting was “too slow” and 17 percent believed it was “outdated”.
These results have caused w 3 that the art of handwriting may one day die out.
“Handwriting is one of the most c 4 art forms we have and should be given the same importance as other art forms such as painting, or photography,” Jonathan Skyrme, general manager at BIC UK & Ireland, told the Daily Mail.
The New York Times once explained that a handwritten letter sends a message in a way that o 5 messages can never do. “When you get an email, you can never be sure that you are the o 6 person to have received it—or even that it was written by the person who sent it,” said the newspaper.
As U.S. author Simon Garf ield once wrote， “Emails are a poke （ 轻戳 ）， but letters are a loving touch.”
So imagine the powerful message you send when you actually write out your thought by hand, buy a stamp, take it to a mailbox, and wait days for your special s 7 to receive it.
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高频词汇
outdated /ˌaʊt'deɪtɪd/ adj. 过时的 die out 灭绝，逐渐消亡