How would you feel if the letter you penned carefully and posted to yourfavorite star ended up in the recycling bin? That ’s where unopened fan mail sentto singer Taylor Swift was found.Swift ’s management said it was an accident, but dealing with piles of lettersis a burden for most public figures. According to the BBC reporter Jon Kelly, atthe height of his fame, Johnny Depp was said to receive up to 10,000 letters aweek. 

Some celebrities don’t want letters. In 2008, Beatles drummer Ringo Starrannounced openly that he would throw them out because he was too busy. Othersdo attempt to get through it themselves. Robert Pattinson, star of the Twilightfilms, claims that he reads“tones and tones”of letters from fans. 

Many artists, however, outsource( 外包 ) the tasks of opening, reading andreplying. Sylvia Taylor, 58, has run a service in California that does just thatsince She and her staff deal with up to 20,000 items of mail a month onbehalf of 26 celebrities. 

Most letters are simply declarations of affection and admiration, she says. Afew ask for money. A small number contain threats which require her to contactthe celebrity ’s security tea m and the police. 

The biggest problem for Taylor is working out how to deal with thecorrespondence. Presents such as soft toys are sent to local hospitals, and theletters: most of them just get recycled. 

Typically, correspondence is acknowledged by a photo with a printed“autograph(亲笔签名)”. For some, this is enough, according to Lynn Zubernis,an expert at West Chester University. She says that the relationship between fansand celebrity may exist only in the mind of the former but it comes from adeeply-rooted human need for community. 

 56.Where were the unopened letters to singer Taylor Swift found?

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic The Most Important Influence on Young Adults . You should write

about 120 words following the Chinese outline given below.

(1)有些人认为父母对年轻人的影响较大，也有些人认为朋友对年轻人的影响较大

(2)我的看法

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Mary was very fond of television, so when she met a young man who workedfor a television company, she was very interested and asked him a lot ofquestions. She discovered that he had also worked for a film company, 【66.so sheasked him whether there was any difference between film work and televisionwork .】 

“Well,” answered the young man, “there is one very big difference. 【67.Ifsomeone makes a mistake while a film is being made, it is possible to stop anddo the scene again.】 In fact, one can do it over and over again a lot of times.Mistakes waste time, money and film, but the audience who see the film when itis finished don ’t know that anything went wrong. In a live television show, onthe other hand, the audience can see any mistakes that are made. ” 

“I can tell you a story about that, 【68. One day, a live television show wasgoing on, and one of the actors was supposed to have been shot.】 He fell to theground, and the camera moved somewhere else to allow time for me to run outwith a bottle of tomato sauce to pour on to him to look like blood. Butunfortunately the camera turned back to him before I had finished, 【69.and thepeople saw me pouring the sauce on to the man. ”】 

“Oh, how terrible! ” Mary said. “And what did you do? ” 

“Well”, answered the young man, “our television director is a very strictman.【70.If anyone makes a mistake, he fires him at once.】 So I just had to pretendthat this was part of the story and eat the man. ” 

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I don ’t know why you ’re so concerned._________________ (这毕竟不是你的问题 ).

For such a big house the price is fairly low. But you’ve got to _________________ (考虑维修所需要的钱 ).

My parents taught me not to take what ’s not mine. I ’ve always tried to_________________ (教育我的子女同样的价值观 ).

I understand the two factors that contributed to my downfall: _________________ (缺乏职业目标和缺乏自信 ).