Dear John,
I am eagerly looking forward to your visit to our city. After all these years of writing to each other, I can not wait to see you. However, I regret to inform you that I will not be able to meet you at the airport on time.
The reason is that your flight will arrive early in the morning, and the earliest I can reach the airport will be about an hour after you land. Will you please wait for me in the arrival lounge? You can have breakfast while you wait.
By the way, as we have never met I must tell you home to identify me: I am of 165cm tall and have a long hair. In addition, I will wear a white skirt and carry a China Daily at hand.
Hope we can meet soon.
Sincerely yours,
Alice
【译文 】
亲爱的约翰：
我非常期待着你来参观我们的城市。这么多年来我们一直通信，我早就想见到你了。但是很抱歉我不能按时到机场接你。
因为你的飞机是一大早就到达机场，而我最早也要1小时后才能到。你能不能在旅客休息室等我，你可以利用这段时间吃早饭。
随便说一句，因为我们没过面，我得告诉你怎么找我：我大概1.65米，长发。另外我会穿一件白色的'裙子，手上拿一份中国日报。
希望早点见到你。
你真挚的：
艾丽丝
道歉信是指因过失或疏忽做错了事，给别人带来了麻烦或损失，发觉后要立即写信给对方赔礼道歉时写的信件。道歉是一种礼貌，道歉信要写得坦率，诚恳。
道歉信通常包括三部分内容：1、表示歉意，道歉的原由;2、出现差错的原因，提出弥补措施;3、请求原谅。语言要诚挚，解释的理由要真实。好的道歉信不仅会取得对方的谅解，还会增进彼此的感情。
写作"三步曲"：
表示歉意→说明具体原因、提出补救办法→再次致歉，希望得到理解。注意：
理由要尽量合理，违反生活常识将导致扣分;尽量提供一个合适的补救办法，使行文更加顺畅。
范文解析：
Directions: You were unable to attend Mr. Smith's examination on International Business English Writing because you got sick that morning. Write a letter to express the reasons for not being able to attend it and apologize.
Write the letter with no less than 100 words. Do not sign your own name at end of the letter. Use "Wang Hua" instead. Do not write the address.
Dear Mr. Smith,
I am indeed very sorry that I missed the examination on International Business English Writing you gave last Friday. I feel awful about it and want you to know what happened that day.I suddenly fell sick early that morning and my parents had to send me to the hospital. Please find enclosed a copy of the medical bill.
I sincerely ho
pe you can understand my situation and accept my apology. I would appreciate your allowing me to take a make-up examination. I will come to your office during your office hour on Monday to discuss this possibility with you. Once again, I apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Sincerely yours,
Wang Hua
Dear Mr. XX:
Hello, today, I have to pick up the pen to write you this letter of apology very guilty and depressed mood. After these days of painful introspection, I have decided to give you a profound self-criticism and Reflection on my absence from classes, and express my determination to correct my mistakes, abide by discipline and improve myself.
In fact, no discipline, life is a rambling I from junior high school age smelly problems, my personality is too individualistic, and rarely take into account the collective discipline, this is my repeated absenteeism, teacher supervision such as root cause unheard of. This semester I missed the number of students actually reached 22, for your treatment of me, I am very understanding, and very much agree with you, your strict demands on me is my care, and supervision. I am still too small, there are many unreasonable place, often inevitably make mistakes, it is very need you for the supervision and management, through these days of reflection, I realized that I could not in any case wanton development continue before, I am deeply grateful to you for your criticism and education. This mistake is a blot on my college life, and a disgrace that I can never let go of my life. I will always remember.
In fact, there are a particularly important reason for my truancy, that my body was not good, always the old sick, starting from the second year, I do not know why cervical discomfort, particularly in the last few months, so I went to the city hospital for treatment of cervical spondylosis. Where the doctor arranged for me to let me every Sunday afternoon to treat, then the teacher and class conflict chaired by you, so I open the class most of class. This is not very strong with my organization and discipline. Teacher, I sincerely apologize to you, please forgive me for the mistakes I made, and strive for lighter treatment. I promise to correct my mistakes later, communicate and communicate with the teachers, and no longer be absent from school.
XX
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