实例 3 邀请信
Model Composition
Dear Mr. Smith:
Your letter of Jan. 27 reached me this morning. We were very happy to know that you had readily accepted our invitation and Mrs. Smith would accompany you on this lecture tour. Arrangements will be made for her to work in the Foreign Language Department. To comply with your wish, we are making necessary preparations for you to come at the beginning of March.
We will provide you and Mrs. Smith with free housing at our university and free medical service while you are here. In addition, we will pay you 5,000 China Yuan and Mrs. Smith 3000 Yuan per month as salaries to cover your food and daily necessities. We also undertake to bear your traveling and hotel expenses to China and back.
Our teachers and graduate students particularly like to hear your views on Power Management and related subjects, but if you prefer to lecture on other topics in the area of power and electricity, they will be equally interested.
To provide you with some information about our university and our physics department in which you are to work, we enclose herewith a brochure containing a brief account of both of them and a few photos taken of our campus. Also enclosed is a draft contract. If you agree to the terms contained therein, please sign it and send it back by return mail.
My colleagues and myself are looking forward to welcoming you and Mrs. Smith on our campus.
Sincerely Yours,
Li Ming
分析：这是一封邀请外国专家来校讲学的信件，开头感谢Smith先生答应来讲学，并满足他的一些要求，第二段则详细介绍了给予的待遇，第三段对Smith先生讲课的内容有礼貌委婉地做了限制，最后则提供了本校的详细信息，以期待专家尽快做出决定。全文礼貌，热情，事情介绍清楚明了。
实例 4 写给报社专栏的信件
Model Composition
Health more important
Dear editor：
Wealth or health? Many would choose the former over the latter. In the past, I too would have chosen wealth, but after last winter vacation, I completely changed my view.
“Uncle Tom is suffering from cancer. Let’s go to see him tomorrow.” When my mother told me the bad news, I could hardly believe my ears. Uncle Tom has been a good friend to my father for years and had always been kind to me. In the morning, I often saw him wearing his jacket and doing exercises. He looked so healthy and energetic.
I continued to hope that some mistake had been made in his physical examination until I saw him lying in the hospital bed with my own eyes. He was quite different from the dynamic man in my memory.
We were aware that he must be bearing great pain, so we tried to comfort him, encouraging him to pull through. He just nodded with tears shining in his eyes. I turned back for fear that I couldn’t keep back my tears.
On the way home, I was deep in thought. I asked myself: If money was everything, could it buy health? Of course not. Health is the most important of all.
Adam, Los Angels
祝贺信、感谢信和慰问信
在得知亲朋好友毕业、通过考试、获得学位、获奖、晋升、结婚、生日庆典等喜讯时，应写信表示祝贺。祝贺信可长可短，但一定要写得亲切热烈，表达出喜悦和兴奋的感情。
在收到别人的礼物或接受了别人的问候、祝贺、慰问、帮助、款待和推荐之后，应写信表示感谢。感谢信没有必要写得太长，但要写得真诚、热切。
亲朋好友或同事、同学办事失败，遭遇不幸时，我们应写信表示安慰。慰问信要有真情实感，向对方表达同情之意，以乐观向上的语言减轻对方的烦恼与痛苦，并给对方以克服困难，走出困境的信心。
在四级英语考试中，这三种类型的信件可以和提纲型作文结合起来进行考查。
下面我们通过实例体会一下三类信件的写法：
实例1 祝贺信
下面是对某公司客户得到一笔不错生意的祝贺
Model Composition
February 15th, 2005
Dear Mr. Smith:
Congratulations on your firm’s recent selection to design and print media advertisements for the Beijing Municipal Government. We learned of your success at our convention in Shanghai last month.
We have long believed that the success of individual franchises is directly linked to the healthy growth of the industry at large. We can think of no better firm to help our industry achieve wide recognition than your company.
We have followed your success in promoting other associations such as soft drinks, snack foods and recycling. Your “Dream Vision 2008” ads for the bottling industry were both inspirational and effective in raising consumer awareness, and we look for similar positive responses to this business with the Beijing Municipal Government.
Again, accept our warm congratulations on your selection. We look forward to seeing the results of the survey you conducted during our convention.
Sincerely yours
Leonardo Chen
分析：在第一段中，作者说明了祝贺的理由。第二段通过表示对客户以前工作的了解，使祝贺显得更具说服力。第三段再次表示祝贺之意。
实例 2 感谢信
这是一篇感谢别人送行的信件
Model Composition
Dear Isabel,
It was certainly grand of you and Tom to come and see me off! I know it was not easy for you to get to the airport at such an early hour, so I appreciate it all the more.
Flying over water can get dreadfully boring after the first few hours, and your book of love stories came in very handy. It was sweet and thoughtful of you to think of it.
The flight was uneventful and we arrived in Beijing on schedule time. Alice and Adam met me at the airport, and went straight to their charming little house. I know I am going to love it here.
I will write to you again, Isabel. In the meantime, my thanks to you and Tom for your much kindness to me when I studied in New York, and my love to you both, always!
Yours Ever,
Li Ming
分析：第一段开门见山直接表达感激之情。第二段通过提前准备好一本书以打发旅途无聊时光这一细节，使感激之情更加真挚。第三段讲抵达后的情况，报平安，以示关系亲近。最后再次表达谢意。
实例3 慰问信
下面是别人在海啸中受伤后，表示关切而写的一封慰问信
Model Composition
Dear Tom,
I am very sorry to learn from the evening paper that a tsunami hit your city this early morning, and I just can not tell you how sorry I was to learn of your injury. Your family tells me that you are progressing nicely, and that you will be out of the hospital in about ten days. I am certainly relieved to know that!
In the next day or so you will receive a little package from me. I hope you like it, and that it will help to pass the time more pleasantly.
With every good wish for your swift recovery.
Sincerely Yours,
Li Ming
分析：对于遭受自然灾害受伤的亲友，应该去信表示慰问，用语尽量中肯贴切。信中不必询问受伤或事故的前前后后，来龙去脉，应表述你听说友人受伤后的难过心情，以及希望他不久就能痊愈的祝愿。
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