Ⅲ. 词汇运用
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Nowadays, phone calls and messages help us make regular contact with others. It means that we seldom write letters now. But a TV show, Letters Alive(《见字如面》), is making
efforts
(effort) to bring back this old habit.
Letters Alive, one of
latest
(late) TV shows, invites famous actors and actresses, but there are no funny jokes or different competitions.
Instead
, it's just one person walking up to a microphone and reading a letter.
The letters were written by people from different times in history. For example, in one episode(集), they read a letter
written
(write) by famous writer Xiao Hong to her younger brother in 1941. The letter shows that Xiao Hong missed her brother so much and had great hopes
for
his future.
"Every letter opens another world for us," according to Guan Zhengwen, the
director
(direct) of the TV show. "It seems that we can experience the real lives and feelings of the writers." Since its first episode on December 5, Letters Alive
has been praised
(praise) widely. A large audience said that it has provided a breath of fresh air for
today's
(today) TV shows.
Besides Letters Alive, some other cultural TV shows have also been well received by Chinese audience, which are also well worth
watching
(watch). They include Chinese Poetry Conference(《中国诗词大会》), a traditional Chinese poetry competition and Readers,
a
programme that invites people to read poems and articles they like or wrote. They suggest that valuable culture and true feelings are becoming our interest.
