【答案解析】[范例1] Dear Financial Aid Office, I would like to apply for a university scholarship to study civil engineering at your university, starting next September. I am in my final year of a 5 year degree course in engineering at Wuhan University. In our last two years we have to choose an optional subject, and I have opted for civil engineering with a specialization in city planning. I worked from July to September of last year and the year before as a volunteer in the office of the Wuhan City Council. My reading has included many articles and reports, several of which were from the United States and Great Britain, on traffic-free shopping centers. This particular aspect of city planning interests me because the centers of many Chinese towns suffer from the dense traffic. Because your university is in the forefront of work in this area, I would like very much to do my postgraduate work there. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely yours, Li Ming [范例2] Dear accommodation officer, I am writing to ask to change rooms next term because of some unbearable reasons. I am now staying in a dorm on campus. Another student shares the dorm with me. Things had gone well until recently when my roommates started inviting his friends to come for parties almost everyday. When they meet they keep laughing, shouting, dancing and making a lot of noise. They often do not stop doing such nasty things until the small hours of the morning. The atmosphere for my studying here is really terrible and I just can't concentrate on what I am doing. I am about to go mad because of this situation. What is more, that roommate of mine recently got into a bad habit of taking my things without asking me. This is more than I can put up with. I want my complete privacy. I am asking you to do me a favor and find me a new room next term, and I would prefer a single room to avoid these sorts of distractions. Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours, Li Ming [范例1文章点评] 作者在第一段表达了自己申请奖学金的意愿，介绍了自己的学习情况以及工作经历；在第二段中，作者简要说明了自己的研究领域，解释了申请学习的理由；最后一段表达了期待回音的愿望。 [范例1语言注释] “I would like to apply for a university scholarship”意为“我想申请贵校……专业的奖学金”；“civil engineering”意为“土木工程，民用建设”；“in my final year of”意为“即将毕业”；“an optional subject”意为“选修课程”；“specialization in”意为“专门针对，主攻”；“several of which”引导的定语从句修饰前面的“articles and reports”；“traffic-free”意为“不受交通堵塞影响的”；“suffer from”意为“遭受……之苦”；“dense”意为“严重的”；“in the forefront of”意为“属于领先水平，处于前列”；“area”意为“领域”；“postgraduate work”意为“研究生学习”；“I look forward to hearing from you．”意为“期待您的回信”，表达了作者急切的心情。 [范例2文章点评] 作者在第一段表达了自己想换宿舍的愿望；在第二段，作者详细说明了自己要求换宿舍的理由：第三段中，作者再次表达了换宿舍的意愿；最后一段表达了期待回音的愿望。 [范例2语言注释] “because of some unbearable reasons”意为“由于一些不能忍受的原因”；“Things had gone well”意为“一切相安无事”；“make a lot of noise”意为“发出很大的噪音”；“the small hours”意为“后半夜”；“atmosphere”意为“环境”；“concentrate on”意为“集中精力，聚精会神”；“go mad”意为“发疯”；“get into a bad habit of”意为“养成……坏习惯”；“without asking me”意为“未经许可”；“This is more than I can put up with”意为“我再也不能忍受了”；“privacy”意为“不受干扰地独处”；“do me a favor”意为“帮帮忙”：“distraction”意为“分心事”。