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Because I married a photographer, once we had children, our holiday cards of course became vehicles for their cuteness and his c
Because I married a photographer, once we had children, our holiday cards of course became vehicles for their cuteness and his c
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2015-09-26
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Because I married a photographer, once we had children, our holiday cards of course became vehicles for their cuteness and his creativity. In 2000, baby number one’s chubby smiling face in a Santa hat was the cover image. In 2004, our now-four faces were ornaments on a tree. By 2006, we wore stocking caps and lay down in bed together with a thought bubble over our sleeping heads filled with cherries. Our best card was our last, in 2010. We dressed in extravagant holiday finery, gowns, jackets and bow-ties. We titled it:"Don We Now Our Gay Apparel. "
That was two years ago. We mailed it out in envelopes, signed, sealed and delivered by the U.S. Postal Service and its analogues in distant lands. Good cheer and laughs in mailboxes all around! It’s been downhill ever since. By last year, we’d let our mailing list go to seed. We communicated with most of our friends online and no longer had street addresses for them.
I didn’t know it then but my world, my social world, was changing. Today, my 1,500 Facebook friends—1,300 of whom I have never actually met—have already seen the best of the year’s haul of pictures of my kids. They also know where I’ve gone on vacation and sometimes, what I cooked for dinner or what I thought of a movie on a Saturday night in May. There’s little point to writing a Christmas update now, with boasts about grades and athletic skill, hospitalizations and holidays, and the dog’s accidents, when we have already posted these events and so much more of our trifles all year long. The urge to share has already been well satisfied.
Likewise, as receivers, we already have real-time windows into the lives of people thousands of miles away. We already know exactly how they’ve fared in the past year, much more than could possibly be conveyed by any single Christmas card. If a child or grandchild has been born to a former colleague or high school friend living across the continent, not only did I see it within hours on Shutterfly or Instagram or Facebook, I might have seen him or her take his or her first steps on YouTube.
Still, the demise of the Christmas photo card saddens me. It predicts the end of the U.S. Postal Service. It signals the day is near when writing on paper is non-existent. Finally, it is part of a decline of a certain quality of communication, one that involved delay and anticipation, forethought and reflection. Opening these cards, the satisfaction wasn’t just in the Peace on Earth greeting, but in the recognition that a distant friend or relative you hadn’t heard from in a year was still thinking about you, and maybe sharing news about major events of the past 12 months.
We know each other so well now, perhaps too well. And yet, all the time logged into our computers has also taken us away from our nearest and dearest. Who can say they spent as much time looking into the eyes of family, friends and neighbors as into the colorful phone or laptop screen last year? This season, instead of sending cards, my winter holiday greeting at the end of 2012 will be this: after posting the obligatory seasonal wishes online on Christmas Eve, I will be clicking off the electronic messaging services, and trying to connect in person with my friends, neighbors and family members for a change.
In 2012, I will give my winter holiday greeting by______.
选项
A、sending holiday photo cards
B、sending all the wishes online
C、clicking on the electronic messaging services
D、contacting with my friends personally
答案
D
解析
细节题。由最后一段最后一句可知,作者打算在2012年不寄送贺卡,而是在圣诞节前夜在线发完必需的节日祝福之后关闭电子传讯服务,并尽量亲自联系自己的朋友、邻居和家人,以求改变,由此可知,[D]“亲自联系我的朋友”符合文意,故为正确答案。[A]“寄节日照片贺卡”与文意相反,故排除;[B]“在线发送所有的祝福”与文意不符,原文是“在线发完必需的节日祝福”;[C]“点击电子传讯服务”与文意相反,故排除。
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