As everybody knows that the traffic problems in ourcity become more and more serious. During the rush-hours every morning and afternoon, the roads are verycrowded. There are traffic jams almost on every mainroad. The accident rate becomes higher than before. Ithink that it is high time for the city government to takesome measures to solve this problem.

First of all, we should repair the roads, for some ofthe roads are in bad condition and it is difficult for thedrivers to go through. Secondly, we should build more overpasses so as to cut down traffic jams. Thirdly,the pro-duction of cars should be controlled, for there are toomany cars moving on the roads every day. As long as wedo something like this, the traffic problem will be solvedor at least the accident rate will be lowered. I do hope ourgovernment will accept my suggestions.

I think its important for us to thank our parents. Since I was born, my parents have given me all their love and care, but never expect anything in return. They havebrought me up and taken good care of me carefully and patiently.

Last year, I was chosen to take part in a speech competition. I felt very nervous. My parents tried hard to help me prepare for it. They encouraged me to be confident and told me not to care much about the result. They said the process of learning was more meaningful.

With their help, I did very well that time. I felt happy and proud. Id like to say “Thanks a lot! Youre great! I will love you forever!” to mum and dad.

Nowadays, unsafe foods can be found, now and then, in the market, which has aroused a lot of public attention. It is reported that these foodstuff ranges from substandard milk powder, tainted/dyed steamed buns to pork with lean meat powder.

Fake commodities are harmful in many ways. To begin with, it is a waste of resource, especially in our country. Second, it has bad effect on the reputation of the real manufacturers and brings about moral Crisis. Above all, all that matters is ’s health and lives are severely threatened if someone buys some unsafe foodstuff.

Measures should be take to deal with the problem. On the one hand , strict laws should be passed to punish the producers and the sellers. On the other hand, consumers should be told to distinguish the genuine goods from the false ones. At the same time, the government should strengthen the supervision of all aspects of food. I firmly believe this problem will be solved in the near future.

I will be away for a while. The key to the cottage is under the doormat, and the food is in the refrigerator. After entering the house, lock the door from inside at once. The cottage is far away from the nearest town, and the area is not quite safe from burglars. So I think the saying is right “Where there is precaution, there is no danger”. Have a nice stay here.

Yours,

Alice

Applying for the Job

Dear Sir,

As I am going to graduate from the university, I would like to apply for a position with your company. My training at Beijing University helped me develop such skills as a secretary with excellent shorthand and word processing: I would like to demonstrate how I can put them to work for your company.

Here I enclose a resume which describes my education and work experience. You will note that I got good grades, and I placed second in our city in the Secretarial Shorthand Competition last November.

If you think I can meet the requirement for work in your company, I would like to interview with you soon., May I call you on Next Monday to make an appointment.

Yours sincerely

LiYing

Fake and poor quality commodities are a serious problem. Many things can be faked such as soybean sauce， vinegar， bicycles， and many other things. The interests of consumers are affected， and many enterprises keep losing money because of cheap fake commodities.

There are some reasons for such a phenomenon. The major one is the desire of some people to “make easy money”. These people think nothing of the law of the protection of intellectual property rights.

To get rid of fake and poor quality commodities， the government should educate people to obey the law of the protection of individual intellectual property rights and not to sell any fake goods. The government should punish severely and close down all the factories producing fake goods.

Dear Julie：

Thank you very much for the dinner that you invited my husband and I to yesterday. The food not only looked and smelled fabulous but tasted great， and my husband and I enjoyed it very much. Therefore， we would like to invite you to dinner at 7 . this Friday at the Northwest Chinese restaurant to return your kindness and hospitality.

Please do come.

Yours，

Helen

There are fewer film-goers now than before. The number of TV-watchers has been increasing. In 1975, there were only 5,000 TV-watchers and in 1985, the number increased 20 times. The increase is due to the development of TV industry. With the development of economy, people are richer than before and many families can afford to buy color TV sets. People would prefer to stay at home to watch TV rather than go out to see a film.

Although film is giving way to TV, there are still some people who like watching films not only because good films are not shown on TV but because film has its own advantage.

Dear John,

I’ve got my plane ticket to New York, I will take Flight CA981 to New York on June 25th. My plane takes off at 10:20 AM from Beijing Airport. It arrives at Shanghai at 12:20 PM and stops for one hour and twenty minutes. Then it continue its flight and lands at Los Angles at 10:50 AM on June 25th. I will have to stay about four hours at Los Angles Airport. Then my plane leaves Los Angles at 14:45 PM. The flight takes five hours and I will finally get to New York at 7:45 in the evening.

I’m looking forward to meeting you soon.

Yours

Li Ping

Dear Mrs. Chan,

Having seen your advertisement for a part-time lab assistant to help with development of computer in China Daily, I beg to offer myself for the position.

I graduated from the Physics Department of Beijing University with an electronics degree and I have been working in the electronics lab in Honda Electronics Company in Guangdong for five years. I’m good at physics and both my spoken English and written English are very good. Besides, I’m in good health because I like sports very much. I work in my company from 8:00 am to 12:00 am. From Monday to Friday, so I’m quite able to work in your company from 3:30 pm to 5:00pm. And I’m quite pleased with the salary your company offers.

Yours sincerely

Li Ping

Video games have become very popular in recent years. Wherever you go, you can see youngsters or even adults indulged in the games. When they play the games in clubs, stores, or homes, they concentrate all their attention on them, with their hands busy operating. Obviously, video games give them great wonderful entertainment. They bring great pleasure to youngsters, train them to respond quickly, stimulate their imagination and interest in electronics and computer science. In short, video games play a good part in the development of youngsters intelligence.

Just as a coin has two sides, video games have also some disadvantage. Some young people especially school children, spend too much time playing them, which would do harem to their health and eyes and affect their school achievements. Only if one has enough self-control, can one benefit from video games.

The newspaper is one of the many mediums of carrying information to us. No wonder people often say: “ Even without stepping out of my house, I am well-informed of al that has been happening in the world.”

We get all kinds of news from newspapers. Newspapers can tell us about various events, past and future, domestic and foreign. Besides, they can teach us a lot of useful things. In fact, everyone can find something he wants from newspapers, and everyone enjoys reading them everyday.

Reading newspapers can widen our scope of knowledge. Not only they help us improve our reading ability but they can help us enhance our ideology. Because of all these benefits, I like reading newspapers.

My Opinion of Today’s Education

I think one of the main problems with today’s education is that too much emphasis is placed on test scores. It has become the most important criterion for college enrollment. A student, however creative and intelligent, will not be admitted into a college if his total scores are just one point less than required. It is also one of the crucial factors either in job assignment or in employment competitions.

The competition for high scores among students becomes intense. Students find themselves concentrating more on strategies to achieve high scores than on acquiring knowledge. They will play truant of some subsidiary course, skip over the substance which will not be tested on, even pump teachers for hints on upcoming exams. Teachers are apt to give their students high scores. As their job is judged mainly by the students’ performance in terms of scores, some teachers tend to set easy papers to test their students on or narrow down the scope of the exam. Some teachers even leak “accidentally” the exam questions or lower their criterion of scoring.

As a result, the competition for high scores becomes so intense that it actually defeats academic goals of education.

Dear Apartment Management Officer:

I am writing to complain about my neighbor Mr. Black.

Mr. Black lives next door to me, and he disturbs my life. He has a party almost every day. During these parties, people are making a lot of noise. They are dancing, laughing and shouting. They often do such silly things till early morning. What’s more, when they have drunk too much, they often quarrel and fight against each other. I can’t put up with all these. I can’t sleep well at night and my kid can’t concentrate on his studies. Please tell Mr. Black to stop all these things and respect others privacy.

Looking forward to your reply.

Faithfully,

Wang Meng

Dear Professor Wang：

On behalf of the Student Union of the English Department， I am writing to invite you to give a lecture on Chinese history.

We have planned to have such a lecture at 2：30 p. m. in Lecture Hall 419， on May 25.

Looking forward to your lecture. Inform us in advance if you can not come.

Sincerely yours，

Li Ping