(2)Directions:

　　You failed to finish an important task assigned by your professor because of a severe illness. Write a letter to your professor tp express your apology, explain your reason, and suggest a solution to make up the loss.

　　You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

　　Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Li Ming” instead.

　　Do not write the address.

　　范文：

　　Dear Prof. Patent,

　　I am very sorry to inform you that I did not manage to complete the book report you assigned last week, due to a sudden illness falling upon me a few days ago. For the past few days I have been in hospital with a continuous fever, which has thus prevented me from any academic activity. I hereby submit the doctor’s note.

　　I would be very much obliged if you could grant me another week for the task, as my health is turning better.

　　Hope you can understand my situation and accept my apology.

　　Yours faithfully,

　　Li Ming

　　譯文：

　　尊敬的Patent教授：

　　我非常遺憾地告知您我沒有完成您上周布置的讀書報告，因為幾天前我突然生病了。過去的幾天中我一直持續(xù)高燒，住在醫(yī)院，因此無法進行任何學(xué)術(shù)活動。隨信是醫(yī)生的診斷書。

　　如果您能再給一周時間來完成它我將感激不盡，因為現(xiàn)在我的身體正在好轉(zhuǎn)。

　　希望您能理解我的處境并接受我的道歉。

　　您真誠的，

　　李明

　　閃光詞匯及詞組：

　　assign: v. 分配，指派

　　fall upon sb: 降臨到某人身上

　　continuous: adj. 持續(xù)的

　　prevent sb from sth/doing sth: 使某人不能做某事

　　hereby: adv. 因此，據(jù)此

　　submit: v. 提交，遞交

　　obliged: adj. 感激的

　　grant: v. 同意，準(zhǔn)予

　　萬能句型：

　　I am very sorry to inform you that I did not manage to complete…due to…

　　I would be very much obliged if you could grant me another week for the task.

　　Hope you can understand my situation and accept my apology.