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课后限时自测(八) (对应学生用书第349页)(建议用时：40分钟)Ⅰ.语法填空－mail is just a faster way to deliver letters.The fact is that letter－writing and e－mail are completely different __1__(process)．Letters travel__2__envelopes through actual space and take time getting from one place to another.If I am writing on paper to my brother in Kenya，I will be less likely to complain about the breakfast I__3__(have)this morning.I will probably write about my relationships and some things that I've been thinking about.I will also take more care with my style，trying to write in__4__way which is interesting and worth__5__(read)．My brother might save my letter；he might read it back to me years from now.－mail is different.It is instant，traveling from point to point.__6__you don't print it out，the message doesn't physically exist.With e－mail，geography is no obstacle and time is not important.I can send a message to Kenya whenever I want to，and__7__gets there almost in a second.The ease of this kind of writing and sending probably makes__8__a different kind of communication.That is__9__I am not so focused on style.I might be less likely to say something__10__(deep)．My brother might glance at my mail，have a laugh，and then delete it.【语篇解读】 本文介绍了e－mail与传统写信的区别以及它带给人们的好处。 根据前面的are可知用复数。in 根据前面的letters及后面的envelopes可知。 由句意可知用过去时态。 不定冠词的基本用法。 worth用法可知。 根据前后句的条件关系可知，if引导条件从句。 指代前面的a message。 固定搭配，“make for”相当于“lead to”。se 引导的表语从句表原因。 根据语境，应用比较级与前面的less对应。阅读理解，I was a bright－eyed girl heading off to Howard University，aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere.Twenty－one years later I am still a bright－eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.My grandma，an amazing woman，graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college，she developed cancer.I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her.It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait. | 
