Suppose you did not finish your homework in time and you need to text a message to your te

Suppose you heard the news that your friend Mike had just been promoted to be the manager of his department in the company. Write a letter of congratulations to Mike. Your letter should include:

1 ) Why do you write this letter?

2) What's your feeling?

You should write approximately 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of your letter. Use "Wang Lin" instead. You do not need to write the address.

Suppose you received an e-mail from your friend Xiaohong, you are required to reply an e-mail. You can make use of the hints given in Chinese.

你收到朋友小红的电子邮件，请参照以下内容回一封邮件给她。

1．很高兴收到电子邮件，从中可以看出她的英语写作能力很不错，能用英语写一封流利的电子邮件。

2．表示自己还达不到这样的水平，尤其是要解释某件事时。

3．告诉对方自己的学校位于白云山下，有很多人去那里爬山，自己平时有空也经常去爬。

4．劳动节快到了，邀请对方来学校去爬山。

5．期待对方的回信。

Suppose you received a letter from your friend Anna, you are required to write a letter of reply with less than 80 words. You can make use of the hints given in Chinese.

你的朋友Anna发出一封邀请函，根据以下信息写一封非正式回函。

1．感谢邀请你到她家和她的朋友参加露天舞会，并表示如果参加定会非常愉快，若自己有时间一定会去。

2．由于事前有约不能赴约，表明这是商务约会不能推迟。

3．希望下次有类似活动还能得到邀请。

The Bounty Hunters

A Here is a dilemma. Suppose you are a computer hacker and you discover a bug in a piece of software that, if it were known to the bad guys, would enable them to steal money or even a person's identity. It would be a feather in your cap. But feathers do not pay the rent. So how might you sell your discovery for the highest price? Asking for cash from the company that sold the buggy software in the first place sounds a bit like blackmail. The implicit threat is that if the firm does not stump up, the knowledge might end up in disreputable hands. But, in truth, it is mainly that possibility which gives the bug value in the first place. What, then, is a fair price, and who is to negotiate it?

B Since economics, like nature, abhors a vacuum, a small industry of "security companies" has emerged to exploit the hackers' dilemma. These outfits buy bugs from hackers {euphemistically known as "security researchers"). They then either sell them to software companies affected by the flaws, sometimes with a corrective "patch" as a sweetener, or use them for further "research", such as looking for more significant—and therefore more lucrative—bugs on their own account. Such films seek to act as third parties that are trusted by hacker and target alike; the idea its that they know the market and thus know the price it will bear.

C Often, though neither side trusts them. Hackers complain that, if they go to such companies to try to ascertain what represents a flair price, the value of their Information plummets because too many people now know about IL Software companies, meanwhile, reckon such middlemen are offered only uninteresting information. They suspect, perhaps cynically, that the good stuff is going straight to the black market. Last week, therefore, saw the launch of a service intended to make the whole process of selling bugs more transparent while giving greater rewards to hackers who do the right thing. The company behind it, a Swiss firm called WabiSabiLabi, differs from traditional security companies in that it does not buy or sell information in its own right. Instead, it provides a marketplace for such transactions.

D A bug-hunter can use this marketplace in one of three ways. He can offer his discovery in a straightforward auction, with the highest bidder getting exclusive rights. He can sell the bug at a fixed price to as many buyers as want it. Or he can try to sell the bug at a fixed price exclusively to one company, without going through an auction. WabiSabiLabi brings two things to the process besides providing the marketplace. The first is an attempt to ensure that only legitimate traders can buy and sell information. (It does this by a vetting process similar to the one employed by banks to clamp down on money launderers.) The second is that it inspects the goods beforehand to make certain that they live up to the claims being made about them.

E Herman Zampariolo, the head of WabiSabiLabi, says that hundreds of hackers have registered with the company since the marketplace was set up. So far only four bugs have been offered for sale, and the prices offered for them have been modest, perhaps because buyers are waiting to see how the system will work. A further 200 bugs, however, have been submitted and are currently being scrutinised. If such bug auctions are to succeed, they will have to overcome a number of obstacles. One is that if the seller is too clear about what he is offering, the buyer might be able to figure out what is being offered without actually paying for it. Another is that the chance of someone else discovering a bug increases with time. A hacker thus needs to sell his find quickly, which requires the verification process to be streamlined. But perhaps the most significant snag to running a bug auction is a legal one.

F Jennifer Granlck, a lawyer at Stanford University who has studied the area for several years, reckons

Suppose you promised to go to the theater with your friend Anna, but for some reasons you cant attend the appointment. Write her an email to 1)make an apology, and 2)explain the reasons why you cant attend the appointment. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write your address.(10 points)

Suppose you borrowed a novel from your friend Jane．However，after several days you suddenly found that you lost it．Write a letter of apology to Jane．Your letter should include：

1） How did you lose it?

2） What’s your feeling and solution?

You should write approximately l00 words．Do not sign your own name at the end of you letter．Use “Wang Lin” instead．You do not need to write the address．