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 (1) (
efforts
) to bring back this old habit.
Letters Alive, one of (2) (
latest
) TV shows, invites famous actors and actresses, but there are no funny jokes or different competitions. (3) (
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 (4) (
written
) 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 (5) (
for
) his future.
"Every letter opens another world for us," according to Guan Zhengwen, the (6) (
director
) 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 (7) (
has been praised
) widely. A large audience said that it has provided a breath of fresh air for (8) (
today's
) TV shows.
Besides Letters Alive, some other cultural TV shows have also been well received by Chinese audience, which are also well worth (9) (
watching
). They include Chinese Poetry Conference(《中国诗词大会》), a traditional Chinese poetry competition and Readers, (10) (
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.
