[填空题]Mr. Green (not receive)（）my letter, otherwise he would have replied by now.

[填空题]Mr. Green (not receive)（）my letter, otherwise he would have replied by now.

[填空题]Ann can’t (receive)（）my letter, otherwise she would have replied before now.

[填空题]Ann can’t (receive) ______ my letter, otherwise she would have replied before now.

[单项选择]On receiving the letter, he found the letter ______.


A. to be opened
B. opening
C. open
D. opened

[填空题]In Columbus’s letter, what did he tell others He found______.

[单项选择]Having finished the letter, he （　） it carefully and sealed the envelop with a kiss.
A. folded
B. bent
C. turned
D. equipped

[单项选择]______ your brother ______ a letter to My father.
A. Who; wrote
B. What; wrote
C. Who did; write
D. What did; write

[填空题]

In Columbus’s letter, what did he tell others
He found（）.

[填空题]He wishes to write another letter which will clear up all the misunderstandings.

[单项选择]（）Writing a letter to the manager,he decided to talk to him in person.
A. Instead of
B. Because of
C. As for
D. due to

[单项选择]A. Pass a letter to Mr. Green. B. Talk to Mr. Green.
C. See Mr. Green. D. Ask about Mr. Green.

[单项选择]A. Pass a letter to Mr. Green. B. Talk to Mr. Green.
C. See Mr. Green. D. Ask about Mr. Green.

[单项选择]Although he refused to act on my suggestion, he had to admit that______ what I said.
A. it was something in
B. there was something in
C. it was something as for
D. there was something upon

[单项选择]Letter-writing goes back thousands of years but heated up during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Historically(perhaps now)letters were indicators of status and breeding. Like conversation, they were used to manipulate, embellish, entertain, threaten, seduce and of course do business. On the way home from discovering America, Christopher Columbus got caught in a storm and his mind turned—as a good bourgeois parent—to his two sons. Who would pay their school fees if he came to a watery end He picked up a quill and documented his accomplishments on the voyage for his Spanish patrons, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, rolled up the letter in a wooden Madeira cask and threw it into the sea. This was not so much for posterity but rather what University of York professor William H. Sherman has called "a father’s desperate petition for the future support of his children."
The 18th century was strong on the epistolary book, which made authors’ quarrels especially amusing. Tobias Smollett