祝賀獲得好成績
【內容提示】
假如今天是1990年6月18日。你的名字叫高峰，家住北京西四大街148號。你剛收到你的英國朋友Tom Brown寫給你的信，他的住址是：28 Carr Lane, Acomb York, Yo 25HU, U. K.。現在你給他寫封回信，信中祝賀他在大學入學(matriculation)考試中獲得好成績，你確信他能考入他所喜歡的重點大學，他一直想當一名外科醫生(surgeon)，所以你認為他應該學醫。最後你告訴他，因為明年你即將高中畢業，從現在起必須充分利用時間做好考試的準備，力爭在來年的考試中能像他一樣取得好成績，考入理想的(ideal)大學——北京清華大學。
要求：
①隻須用英語表達上述內容，不必逐句翻譯。全篇詞數：150—180。
②信中不要使用自己的真實姓名和地址。
【作文示範】
Congratulations on Tom"s Success
148 Xisi Street
Beijing
P. R. C.
June 18, 1990
Mr. Tom Brown
28 Carr Lane
Acomb York
Yo 25HU
U. K.
Dear Tom Brown,
I have just received your letter. I am really glad to hear that you have done so brilliantly in the Matriculation① Examination. Congratulations! With such excellent results you will be able to get into any leading university you like, I am sure. And I suppose you should study Medicine since it has been your dream to become a surgeon all these years.
Next year I shall finish my middle school and I want very much to enter my ideal university, Qinghua University. So from now on I have to make full use of my time to get well prepared for the next year"s Matriculation Examination. I shall try my best to do as well as you have done in your Matriculation Examination this year. Please say hello to your family.
Yours sincerely,
Gao Feng
【詞語解釋】
matriculation [m+?trkju"leiM+n] n. (大學的)入學考試
【寫法指要】
這是一封較為正式的祝賀信。祝賀信(letters of congratulation)是得到親友、同事、同學通過考試、榮獲晉升、獲得學位、結婚、喜得貴子等好訊息時寫的信。這種信要寫得及時、真誠、自然、親切動人。祝賀信一般不宜寫得過長。
祝賀信常用的語句有：
①Congratulations on your success /achievements!
②I"m so glad to hear of your winning the prize in the … contest. Congratulations!
③Please accept my heartiest congratulations on your graduation from….
④Heartiest congratulations upon your graduation. May your future be as successful as your middle-school days have been.
⑤A word of congratulation just doesn"t seem enough, so I am sending you a gift that I am sure you will find useful.