【CET-6應用文】A Letter to a Friend
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to one of your friends. You should tell your friend about your old days and present situation. And the body of your letter should be no less than 160 words.
【範文】
A Letter to a Friend
Feb. 14. 2002
Dear Bonnie,
I’m sitting in my room and looking through my old record albums①. There’s one here that reminds me of② you, one by Jethro Tull. Do you remember? We played that record together every afternoon for over a year. I was so sure then that my life would be perfect in five or six years. Well, here I am five years later. I have the same worries about money and school. I’m not married to a prince or living a magic kingdom. I’m still living in New Orleans, and I’m not married at all.
I went back to Alexandria several months ago. I stopped in front of your old house on Levin Street. It really looks different! It is a strange colour that’s not quite yellow and not quite orange to look at. It makes me sad to think that someone else is living in your house.
I’m still working my way through school③. I’ll graduate in a year or two, if I’m lucky. Of course, you know that I change my mind a lot. My major④ is now English, not sociology. After I get my degree, I might teach. I’m not sure. Teachers don’t earn very much money. Maybe I’ll know what I want to do when I grow up. Here I am; I’m twenty-two, and I don’t know what to be. Oh, well!
I’m still working part-time at a local hospital. The job is so boring! Watching a potato bake⑤ in a microwave is more exciting. I’m working in the English Department at school, too. That job is a little more interesting, but not much.
Do you still go to the movies a lot? Since movie tickets are so expensive, I don’t go much any more. Instead, I find friends who have cable TV and VCDS, and I watch movies at their houses. It’s much cheaper that way. I still read as much as ever. I don’t mind paying for good books.
Mother wants me to help her in the kitchen. I’ll say goodbye. Write soon with stories of life in Connecticut. Take care of yourself. Think of me when you listen to Jethro Tull.
Love,
Sally
【註釋】
①albums: 相冊；影集；集子
②reminds me of: 使我想起……
③working my way through school: 努力地上學
④major: 主修；專業
⑤bake: 烤
【簡評】
本文是一篇根據命題展開的書信體應用文。
由於是一封給親密朋友的書信，加上命題中又沒有對書信內容進行規定，所以作者談論的範圍比較廣泛。
首先，作者對與朋友之間的往事進行回憶，接著並對現在的基本狀況進行了簡單的說明。此處的語言不乏幽默感。在第二段作者表示了對友人的住房的變更的傷感。在第三、第四、第五段中，作者對自己當前的狀況，包括學習、工作和業餘愛好都進行了說明。第六段的結尾非常巧妙，而且與開頭形成首尾呼應，使文章結構更加緊湊。
由於是友人間的書信，所談內容又只是一種禮儀交往，所以作者用詞都比較簡單，全文語言也很樸素。
資料來源：新大學英語四、六級考點透視叢書：六級寫作/李華田主編，武漢大學出版社，2006
