Nowadays, phone calls and messages help us make regular contact (联系) with others. It means that we seldom write letters now. But a TV show, Letters Alive (《见字如面》), is bringing back this old habit.

    Letters Alive invites famous actors and actresses, but there are no funny jokes or different competitions. Instead, it's just one person walking up to a microphone and reading a letter.

    The letters were written(被写) by people from different times in history. For example, in one episode (集), they read a letter 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 for his future.

    "Every letter opens another world for us." according to Guan Zhangwen, the director of the TV show. "It seems that we can experience the real lives and feelings of the writers." Since its first episode on Dec. 5, Letters Alive has been widely praised. Many audiences (观众) said that it has provided a breath of fresh air to today's TV shows.

    Besides Letters Alive, some other cultural TV shows have also been well received by Chinese audience. They include Chinese Poetry Conference, a traditional Chinese poetry competition and Readers, a program that invites people to read poems and articles they like or wrote. It suggests that cultural values and true feeling are becoming our interest.

    What do you think of your Chinese? It's good or bad? If you think you are good at Chinese, you can take part in a ⑴_________. The competition is Chinese Characters Dictation Competition. ⑵ The competition has been popular among teenagers since(自从……以来) last summer.

    Today teenagers are using computers and smart phones. Many of them lose themselves in digital products such as electronic dictionaries and computers to help with their study. Overuse of these tools will make students too lazy to think and write. Some students even forget the hand writing of Chinese characters. Teachers and parents have been very worried about it. What can they do?

    Such worries ⑶_________ (bring) about the popular TV show, Chinese Characters Dictation Competition, where middle school students stand on the stage to write down Chinese characters. Over two hundred students from forty-six schools competed. 

    Chen Keyu, a Grade 8 boy beat the other competitors. Can you be the next winner?

    You have visited Boston before. Your friends have to the city. They say there are many interesting places in Boston. Some of them you about these interesting places in it. So you begin to know something Boston, but you don't know where these are or you don't know how to find . However, someone gives you a map of this city and shows you the main roads and buildings, you may say excitedly, "Oh, now I see. I can find many places with trouble at all."

    Maps are useful and could help you find your way in a city if you have never been to this city. When you want to go to a new place, you'd take a map with you.

A: Hello, Lingling. I have not seen you for a long time.

B: Oh, I have been to Egypt and stayed there for three weeks. 

A: Egypt?

B: My parents and my aunts. 

A:

B: OK. Egypt is in the north of Africa and Cairo(开罗) is its capital city. 

A:

B: It is famous for the Pyramids(金字塔) and the Nile River. 

A:

B: Yes, it is. The night's scenery(景色) of the Nile River is very beautiful.

A: I also want to visit Egypt next month with my uncle. 

B: Really? I wish you will have a good time there. 

A: Thank you.

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