阅读下面短文在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

My name’s Jim Brown. I’ve taught in China (16) _____ 5 years. I don’t like to write letters, (17) _____ I enjoy (18) _____ (get) letters from my family and other people. They always say you have to write letters if you expect to (19) _____ (get) some. But that isn’t (20) _____ (truly). I hardly ever write to anybody. However, I always get lots of mails. I hear from my brother in Germany two or three (21)______ (time) a month, and I get letters regular (定期地) from my sister in Paris and from (22)______ (friend) in Britain and Canada. My cousin Harry (23) _____ (work) in an airline company and travels all around (24) _____ world. He writes to me very often too. A friend of Harry’s writes to me simply (仅仅) (25) ______ he learns that I collect stamps.

参考答案：

16. for 17. but 18. getting 19. get 20. true 21. times　22. friends 23. works 24. the 25. because