Question

根据短文内容，从短文后的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. This incident has caused a wide public concern about how the public figures deal with the letters or mails from the fans.

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

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

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

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

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

G. Others do attempt to get through it themselves.

Answer

1.A

2.E

3.G

4.B

5.D

【解析】

试题分析：文章讲述了名人每天收到众多粉丝来信这一现象及带来的一系列烦恼。

1. 考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。本文以著名的歌手Taylor Swift的粉丝写给她的信被发现在回收桶开始，引出了下文的议论，故A项“这一事件引起了公众广泛关注公众人物如何处理粉丝的信件或邮件。”

2. 考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据本空格前的一句，表述一天收到了将近10000封粉丝的来信，故可推断后一句说的应该是这些信将会如何被处理好，故选E。

3. 考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据前面一句中出现的some，可知此句中会出现others，因为这是一个句型。故选G。根据空格后面的内容也可推断选G。

4. 考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。此题前面的一句话介绍了专门处理这类信件的公司，B项是这家公司如何工作的，故符合语境。

5. 考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据后面一句For some, this is enough, according to Lynn Zubernis, an expert at West Chester University.（西彻斯特大学专家林恩・泽布尼斯说，对于一些人而言，这就够了。）可知，前面应该是明星给粉丝的东西，故选D。

考点：考查对文章的整体内容和结构以及上下文逻辑意义的理解和掌握。

【名师点睛】

关于七选五的做题步骤：

1、通读全文，对文章进行快速浏览，寻找主题句，抓住文章结构及文章的写作内容。在阅读过程中，要注意文章的开始与结束段落，尤其是文章的首段及末段末句，因为“开门见山”与“结尾总结”的写作方式为常见的写作方式，首段的末句一般是是全文的主题所在，说明本文将探讨哪些内容，并简要指出文章的写作思路，有时甚至会以提纲的形式进行呈现。首段的末句对于快速掌握文章的主题有重要意义。

2、详读段落，在短时间内，找出每段写作内容的关键词。明确各段的主题句或主旨大意。文章正文部分通常分为若干小段落。各段落会根据整体文章写作主题展开，对文章主体进行的不同方面的描述。找出各个小段落中的关键词，明确其描述内容，为整体试题的解决做好铺垫。阅读各个空的前后句，标记关键词，关键词包括句中的核心名词或名词词组（如带有形容词的名词词组）、专有名词、时间数字、代词、连词等。重点阅读各个问题附近的句子，圈定线索词，然后从选项中寻找相关的特征词，以确定答案。做题时可以采用代入排除法。如果一题做不出或拿不准，可先放过，继续往下读，先做容易的能做出的题，直到读完整篇文章。至此，文章的要点和主旨

3、定位选项，明确各备选选项的含义，抓住其关键词语，根据文章整体结构与具体内容，将选项填入文中，填写时尤为注意各选项中出现的句子衔接手段及句中的衔接标志词。在定位选项时，要特别注意空格上下段的写作内容，以及空格上段尾句和下段首句的结构和意义。将所选项放入空白处，看看是否与上下文构成语义及逻辑上的直接关系，是否符合该处语境。能否承接前后的写作线索。使文章无论内容还是衔接上都能做到通顺。

4、通读复检，将所选答案代入文中，再次通读全文，重点考查逻辑关系和关联结构。

在完成选项定位后，应通读全文，检查文章内容是否完整，语义是否连贯合理、各段落内容是否紧扣主题，语篇结构是否通顺连贯、具有一致性、合乎逻辑，写作思路是否清晰明了，格式以及用语是否恰当贴切，从而判断选择的答案是否正确。同时，我们还应注意对相近选项的对比分析，个别干扰项由于与某个正确选项的内容相近具有很强的干扰性，这时就需要我们认真分析，排除干扰，从而得出正确选项。

5、确定排除，研究多余选项，确定排除理由，最终确定答案。