Twice a month，Nona Avery sits down，picks up her pen and writes a letter to her best friend.The British woman has been doing it for 77 years.She s（1）

ent

ent

more than 1，500 letters to her pen pal in America.
   The hobby s（2）

tarted

tarted

in 1942.Nona，then twelve，was reading a m（3）

agazine

agazine

.Some ads in it were asking for pen pals.One of them c（4）

aught

aught

Nona's eye.It was from Alice Powers.She lived in America and was a（5）

lso

lso

twelve."I was very excited" Nona said. "I sat down immediately，w（6）

rote

rote

a letter，put it in an envelope--together with a picture of myself--and posted it."Nona spent every day w（7）

aiting

aiting

for the postman.Two weeks later--which felt like a lifetime--a r（8）

eply

eply

dropped through the letterbox. "I was overjoyed，"Nona said. "There was a letter and a picture of my new friend.She was on the other side of the world!" Nona and Alice kept writing.The two found that they had a lot in common.They liked the same books and the same films.However，both Nona and Alice were too p（9）

oor

oor

to afford a plane ticket.They didn't meet until 1987.
   Now in their eighties，Nona and Alice are still writing to each other.And they still write by hand."Writing is much more intimate（親密的），so why shall we change the h（10）

abit

abit

of a lifetime？"Nona said.