Ⅱ. 完形填空(每小题1分,共15分)
My computer was everything to me until I received three sets of stationery（信纸）as a gift. The touching 1
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of real stationery in my hands took me back years to when paper was really a(n) 2
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. Right then and there, I decided to 3
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a letter. I was going to compose letters that would be read throughout history.
I carefully 4
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a sheet of the beautiful paper, and picked up a pen and something amazing happened. I was afraid to begin writing—because if I 5
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it up, I'd have to start again. There was no backspace to delete mistakes. However, I decided that I was not going to let a task as simple as writing a letter leave me 6
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.
On a piece of scratch paper I outlined my thoughts. I 7
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them out and outlined them again. I wrote down childhood memories. For about 45 minutes, I explored my own 8
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. When I finished, I took a sheet of the beautiful stationery and 9
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my first handwritten letter in over 20 years. And while it wasn't the 10
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I was hoping for, I got a call from my sister saying how much she enjoyed reading it. In fact, she was even 11
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to write back.
That was over a year ago. Today, I have a shelf of stationery and writing a letter is no longer a source of 12
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. I don't need scratch paper, and I can 13
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a well-crafted letter in 30 minutes. 14
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, now I receive letters in the mail again, and that alone is 15
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of the price of stationery.
