II. Please improve the following sentence to them more idiamotic
Keys:
1. We are sending you the information you asked for in your letter of June 4.
2. We have received your letter of May 10.
12. Thamber 5, 2007. We intend to place a trial order with you.
13. You will no doubt ope the relevant L/C at the end of May.
10. Samples will be sent and offer made upon receipt of your specific enquiry.
11. In reply to your letter 23rd May, we regret to inform you that we are now not in a position to offer you the quantity as required.
The Pacific Trading Inc.
87 Broadway ST.
Keys:
A. B. C.
Mr. Henry Taylor London City Bank Mr. John Smith
150 Bench Street 12 Queen Street 16 Front Street
London, E. C. 3 London, E.C.5 Liverpool L6 3FY
12. commodities fair 13. competitive price
14. EMP(European Main ports)
15. deal exclusively 16. manufacturer
17. article number 18. delivery
19. specification 20. trial order
17. Please send me a copy of the agreement.
18. Your products are not up to our standard.
19. I regret I cannot agree to your suggestions.
20. We have semimonthly direct sailings from Hong Kong to San Francisco.
English Correspondence of Business
Chapter One Basic Knowledge of Business Letter Writing
Section Nine Exercises 练习
I. Translate the following expressions into English:
Keys: mercial Councellor
2.import and export 3.export list
4. enquiry 5.sample
6. price list 7.catalogue
8. Chamber of Commerce 9. market price
10. agreement 11.clients/customers
3. We are pleased to tell you that your Order 167 was dispatched yesterday.
4. We sent you this morning our latest catalogue you requested in your letter of May 5.
England England
VI. Please write a letter according to the following particulars:
Keys:
Shanghai Light Industrial Products Corp.
11 Jiefang Road
Shanghai
Tel: 021--43715589
14. We feel sure that you will be entirely satisfied.
15. Will you please send us your latest catalogue and pricelist?
16. We wish you could effect insurance on the goods with PICC.
5. We hope you will consider our proposals.
6. We hope to hear from you soon.
7.You informed us in your letter that you could not offer us Gallnuts as they were out of stock.
III. Arrange the following in proper form as they should be set out in a letter
Keys:
Open
V. Point out the mistakes in the following addresses and rewrite them.
8. In reply to your letter of the 23red last month, we are pleased to confirm the following order.
9. Please take note of the Lot Number of bales so that the parcel may not be mixed up on landing.