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Discourse Cloze (Answers)
For Questions 1-6, read through the text and then choose from the list
below the best phrase to fill each of the spaces. Some of the suggested
answers do not fit at all.
Example: (0) 'which is one that dates back thousands of years'
Letter writing - a forgotten art?
Writing letters is one of the oldest human actvities, and (0) ...
Traditionally we have written letters for a variety of purposes,
(1) ... , invitations, love letters, correspondence to a newspaper
editor, business letters, letters of condolence, thank you letters,
and many more. We have a postal system (2) ... that a letter
can travel half-way round the world in just a few days.
But is letter writing relevant in today’s ever-changing world? With
competition from telephone, fax and email it is all too easy to argue
that letter writing is an old fashioned activity (3) ... Just as equally,
however, one could argue to the contrary, (4) ... Be honest for
a moment. What would you prefer to receive at Christmas time?
A note on special stationery (5) ... or one of those ‘form’ letters
that
are addressed to any number of recipients? There is undoubtedly a
romance surrounding writing and receiving letters (6) ... . That is
something that the cynics would do well to remember.
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A which is one that dates back thousands of years
B which uses pen and paper
C that is simply absent from receiving mail on a computer screen
D that had obviously been written just for you
E which will soon become a forgotten art
F which is that a handwritten letter gets the message across
G which can include news updates
H that is speedy and reliable
I that gives you the latest news
J which is so efficient
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