Directions: Your friend lives in another city and came to visit you last Sunday, but due to some reason you were not at home. Write a note expressing your regrets on having missed seeing him or her. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the note. Use "Li Ming" instead.

A．Instant coffee was strongly resisted in the market places.
B．The advertising expenditure for instant coffee was far greater than that for regular coffee.
C．There might be deeper reasons in the resistance to instant coffee.
D．It was a lazy housewife who used instant coffee.

A．All states should follow California’s example in using small-claims courts in order to free judges for other work.
B．The legislature needs to formulate fewer laws so that the judiciary can catch up on its older cases.
C．Nobody seems to care enough to attempt to find methods for making the judicial system more efficient.
D．While there are many problems with the court system, there are viable suggestions for improvement.