Nowadays, phone calls and messages help us get in touch with others. It means that we seldom write letters now. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} 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 {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (compete). It's just one person {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (walk) up to a microphone and reading a letter. The letters were written by people from {#blank#}4{#/blank#} times in history. For example, in one period, they read a letter written by a famous {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (write) 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 TVshow. "We can also touch the heart of the writers. " Since its {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (one) period on Dec. 5th, Letters Alive {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (be) widely praised. Many audiences(观众) said that it had provided a breath of fresh air for today's TV shows

    Beside Letters Alive, some other cultural TV shows have also been well {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (receive) by Chinese audiences. Chinese Poetry Conference is a traditional Chinese poetry competition. And The Readers invites people {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (read) poems and articles they like or wrote. It suggests {#blank#}10{#/blank#} cultural values and true feelings are becoming our interest.

    The Greens live in Campton. It is an old small town. Grandpa Harry is 65 years old. He is very nice and he likes to {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(go) fishing in the fishing pond (池塘) with Joe. The Greens often have{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(grandpa) fish for supper. Joe is fifteen years old and soccer is his favorite sports. He often {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (play) sports in summer with his classmates. Joe's father, Bill, is{#blank#}4{#/blank#}art teacher in Joe and Mary's school. And he is good at sports. He{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(be) on the basketball team of the town. Joe and Mary like to watch {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(they) father play basketball and draw pictures. Joe's mother, Diana, likes sports, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} . She can play tennis well. She often goes shopping with Mary. She often buys beautiful clothes and{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(health) food for the family. She can find many things at very good {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(price) in the stores. Campton is small, {#blank#}10{#/blank#}they love it a lot. They want to live there forever(永远).

    Daniel Kristiansea is a 14-year-old schoolboy from Denmark. Recently, while doing his history homework about World War Ⅱ, he had a surprising discovery {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（在……后面）his family's home. He found the remains of a World War Ⅱplane and a {#blank#}2{#/blank#}（飞行员）.

    After telling his father about his history homework, Daniel was encouraged to go out onto their farm with a special machine to find {#blank#}3{#/blank#}（金属）. He and his father hoped they might find some old plates or something he could {#blank#}4{#/blank#}（给……看）to his classmates at school. Much to their surprise, on the {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（第五）day, they found some broken plane pieces. When they {#blank#}6{#/blank#}（挖）down seven meters, they suddenly came across pieces of {#blank#}7{#/blank#}（灰色的）clothes. They reported what they found to the government, and soon the news was {#blank#}8{#/blank#} （广泛地）heard across Danmark. Each day their house was {#blank#}9{#/blank#}（拥挤的）with news reporters.

    Daniel's father, Klaus, remembered being told by his grandpa that a plane from {#blank#}10{#/blank#}（德国）had hit their farm during World War Ⅱ. But Klaus thought it was just a good story. Now it turns out to be true.

    Do you speak emoji? If you use a smart phone, the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (answer)is probably yes. Emoji is a visual(视觉的) language, It can express ideas and feelings. Are you hungry? Let your friends know {#blank#}2{#/blank#} sending them food emojis, like rice or pizza.

    People use emoji a lot. One of the most {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (popular) emojis is the face with tears of joy. "It has been used more than 1.8 billion times on Twitter.

    Emo is modern, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}the idea is old .History shows that we've used symbols as language for about 5, 000 years. One of the oldest {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (example)of visual language is Egyptian hieroglyphs(象形文字). Ancient Egyptians {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (begin) using language symbol around 3250 B. C, according {#blank#}7{#/blank#} John Darnell. He is an expert from Yale University.

    Who invented emoji? In 1999, the Japanese company NTT Docomo took a heart picture off from its mobile system. As a result, it {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (lose) many customers. So Shigetaka Kurita， a designer（设计师), put the heart back. And he made 175 more pictures. He called {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (they) emoji, the Japanese word for picture characters.

    Some people still do not see emoji as a language, but it does {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (improve) our communication. Don't you think so?