内容要要点：

1）给他三条建议；

2）表达期望并送上祝福。

注意：1）词数100词左右；

2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3）文章的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Peter，

    I'm sorry to hear about your situation. ……

    ……

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

1）回顾双方的交流项目（如学习、生活、文艺等方面）；

2）谈谈收获；

3）表达祝愿。

Dear friends,

    How time flies!

    Thank you!

假定你是李华，你的外国笔友Ann最近因为父母工作的关系转到了新的班级，她在与朋友相处方面遇到了一些问题，因此向你寻求交到好朋友且维持友谊的方法。你的建议内容如下：

1）学会倾听

2）有分歧时让步

3）多陪伴

注意：1）词数100左右

2）开头及结尾为你写好，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：compromise 让步

Dear Ann,

Sincerely yours,

Lihua

写作要求：1）表达写信意图；陈述应征目的；说明应征条件（性格、能力等）；

2）开头已写好，不计入总词数；

3）可根据情况增加细节，使行文连贯；

4）词数100词左右。

Dear Ms. Chen,

    I'm Li Hua, a student from Class 2, Grade 3.

    Looking forward to your reply.

Yours truly,

Li Hua

注意：1）词数100左右；

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Linda,

Yours,

Li Hua

Unfair Comparisons

    Thanks to social media, the distance between friends is smaller than ever. But does that make us happier? Not necessarily. A recent study has found spending too much time comparing your life with the seemingly perfect lives of your friends on social media can result in depressive symptoms.

We've all done it —- browsing through our WeChat friends' updates while feeling that green-eyed monster holding its head in our minds: Are their homes bigger and more tasteful? Are their vacations more expensive and exciting? Are their careers more successful and rewarding?

    Comparison is the thief of joy. The more time you spend on social media, the more likely it is for you to feel depressive symptoms, according to a new study out of University of Houston. The study, led by Mai-Ly Steers, examines the potential impact online social comparison can have on a person's mental health.

    "The underlying mechanism is social comparison," Steers said. "The reason why you feel these feelings is that you tend to socially compare yourself with your friends."

    This social comparison theory was popularized by US psychologist Leon Festinger in the 1950s. According to an article in The Atlantic  Festinger argued that people have born tendencies to track their progress and measure their self-worth by comparing themselves with other people. That social comparison leads to feelings of insignificance and insecurity. Research has since found that making social comparisons, especially upward comparisons (to people we think above us for whatever reason), are associated with negative health outcomes like depressive symptoms and decreased self-esteem.

    "You can't really control the strong desire to compare because you never know what your friends are going to post. In addition, most of our friends tend to post about the good things that occur in their lives, while leaving out the bad. If we're comparing ourselves with our friends'' sharable highlights', this may lead us to think their lives are better than they actually are, and thus make us feel worse about our own lives."

    So if you are the jealous type, maybe think about signing off of your WeChat for a while. Your well-being may depend on it.