The English-Chinese/Chinese-English Dictionary is really a good one for beginners. It has 18,000 English words and 20,000 Chinese words. Besides plenty of examples, it has many notes telling you how to use a word. Xinhua dictionary is the most popular Chinese dictionary, and it has a vocabulary of 10,000 words. It may also be useful to some advanced learners of Chinese. Of the two, ECCED is the more expensive, costing 52 yuan, and XD costs 11 yuan.

Please let me know if you want me to buy these dictionaries.

　　Yours,

　　Li Yue

　　[名师点评]本文要完成的是书信的主要部分，因此不需要注意格式，但是不能遗漏要点。本文要点齐全，内容完整，详略得到。介绍的时候，层次清晰，逐一举例。文章流畅而连贯。有很多关于词汇和字典的表述，值得我们积累。