【单选】Twice a month, Jenny Green sits down, picks up her pen and writes a letter to her best friend. The British woman has been doing it for 80 years. She has sent more than 1,500 letters to her pen pal in America.
The hobby started in 1942. Jenny, then 12 years old, was reading a magazine. Some ads in the magazine were asking for pen pals. One of them caught Jenny’s eye. It was from Alice Miller. She lived in America and was also 12. “It was exciting for me,” Jenny said. “I sat down at once, wrote a letter, put it in an envelope—together with a picture of myself —and posted it.”
Jenny spent every day waiting for the postman. Two weeks later—which felt like a lifetime—a reply dropped through the letter box. “I was overjoyed,” Jenny said. “There was a letter and a picture of my new friend. She was all the way on the other side of the world!”
Jenny and Alice wanted to learn more about each other. They kept writing. The two found that they had a lot in common. They liked the same books and the same films.
However, both Jenny and Alice were too poor to afford a plane ticket. It was not until 1987 that they met. “I was glad to see the person I had been writing to for 40 years,” Jenny said. “We had a big hug and then sat down, chatting for hours.”
Now in their nineties, Jenny and Alice are still writing to each other. And they still write by hand. “Writing is warmer and friendlier. So why shall we change the habit of a lifetime?” Jenny said. “I’m so glad that I wrote that first letter 80 years ago.”
4.Where did Jenny Green first see Alice’s information?
A.In a magazine. | B.On a website. | C.On social media. | D.In a newspaper. |
5.The underlined word
“overjoyed”(in Paragraph 3)probably means “________.”
A.very sad | B.very tired | C.very worried | D.very happy |
6.According to the article, what did Jenny and Alice have in common?
①They liked the same films.
②They were of the same age.
③They liked the same books.
④They liked the same movie stars.
7.What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A.Jenny has many pen pals. |
B.Jenny and Alice will keep writing by hand. |
C.Jenny doesn’t know how to use a computer. |
D.Jenny and Alice will write to each other by email. |