Question

【题目】根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Lost in the Post

How would you feel if the letter you penned carefully and posted to your favorite star ended up in the recycling bin? That’s where unopened fan mail sent to singer Taylor Swift was found in Nashville. 【1】

Swift’s management said it was an accident, but dealing with piles of letters is a burden for most public figures. According to the BBC reporter Jon Kelly, at the height of his fame, Johnny Depp was said to receive up to 10,000 letters a week. 【2】

The dawn of the digital age in which public figures with a Twitter account can be messaged directly has made the process easier. The White House says it deals with 20,000 messages addressed to President Barack Obama each day.

Some celebrities don’t want letters. In 2008, Beatles drummer Ringo Starr said that he would throw them out because he was too busy. 【3】 Robert Pattinson, star of the Twilight films, claims that he reads tonnes and tonnes of letters from fans, which takes up almost all his free time.

Many artists, however, outsource(外包) the task of opening, reading and replying. Sylvia “Spanky” Taylor, 58, has run a service in California that does just that since 1987. 【4】 Most letters are simply declarations of affection and admiration, she says. A few ask for money. A small number contain threats which require her to contact the celebrity’s security team and law enforcement.

The biggest problem for Taylor is working out how to deal with the correspondence(通信). Presents such as soft toys are sent to local hospitals, and most of the letters just get shredded and recycled.

【5】 For some, this is enough, according to Lynn Zubernis, an expert at West Chester University. She says that the relationship between fan and celebrity may exist only in the mind of the former but it comes from a deeply-rooted human need for community.

A．Others do attempt to get through it themselves.

B．In fact, there is no alternative to deal with the problem.

C．How could he have enough time to skim through these letters one by one?

D．Typically, correspondence is acknowledged by a photo with a printed “signature”.

E．Accordingly, the correspondence problem has been difficult for the computer to automate.

F．She and her staff deal with up to 20,000 items of mail a month on behalf of 26 celebrities.

G．This incident has caused a wide public concern about how the public figures deal with the letters or mails from the fans.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】G

【2】C

【3】A

【4】F

【5】D

【解析】

【1】本文以著名的歌手Taylor Swift的粉丝给她写的信被发现在回收桶开始，引出了下文的议论，根据文意并结合选项的意思，可知选G合适。

【2】根据空格前一句，Johnny Depp一天收到了将近10000封粉丝的来信，故可推断后一句说的应该是这么多的信Johnny Depp怎么处理，故选C。

【3】根据前面一句中出现的some，以及空格后表述的人物的处理方式与前面完全不同，故推断此句中会出现others，因为这是一个句型，故选A。

【4】根据此题前面的一句话以及这一段的内容都是讲一家专门处理这类信件的公司，可知此题应选F。

【5】由于此空格是文章最后一段的首句，同时根据此段的具体意思和内容，可知选D合适。