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I was in my third year of teaching creative writing at a high school in New York, when one of my students, 15-year-old Micky, gave me a note from his mother. It     his absence from class the day before.

I had seen Micky himself writing the note at his desk. Most parental-excuse notes I received were penned by my      . The forged(伪造的) excuse notes made a large pile, with writing that ranged from imaginative to crazy. The    of those notes didn’t realize that honest excuse notes were usually    : “Peter was late because the alarm clock didn’t go off.” The students always said that it was hard putting 200 words together on any subject, but when they   excuse notes, they were brilliant.

So one day I gave the excuse notes to my classes, saying, “They’re   to be written by parents, but actually they are not. True, Micky ? ” The students looked at me   .“Now, this will be the first class to study the    of the excuse notes --- the first class, ever, to practice writing them. You’re so   to have a teacher like me who has taken your best writing and turned it into a    worthy of study. ”

Everyone smiled as I went on, “You used your   . So try more now. Today I’d like you to write ‘An Excuse Note from Adam/Eve to God’.”     went down. Pens raced      paper. For the first time ever I saw students so   in their writing that they had to be asked to go to lunch by their friends.

The next day everyone had excuse notes. discussions followed. The headmaster entered the classroom and walked , looking at papers, and then said, “I’d like you to see me in my office.” My heart   .

When I stepped into his office, he came to   my hand and said, “I just want to tell you that that lesson, that task, whatever the hell you were doing, was . Those kids were writing on the college     . Thank you. ”

1.A. explained   B. described    C. introduced    D. announced

2.A. parents     B. students    C. teachers    D. partners

3.A. editors     B. readers      C. writers       D. speakers

4.A. true        B. right        C. easy         D. dull

5.A. produced    B. hunted      C. discovered    D. delivered

6.A. started     B. raised       C. supposed      D. improved

7.A. eagerly    B. nervously   C. excitedly     D. coldly

8.A. form        B. difficulty C. meaning       D. art

9.A. lucky        B. helpful      C. lovely        D. active

10.A. talent    B. habit       C. product      D. subject

11.A. devotion  B. imagination C. concentration D. information

12.A. hands      B. eyes        C. heads        D. ears

13.A. across     B. with        C. against      D. behind

14.A. curious     B. careful      C. careless      D. calm

15.A. Separated  B. Surprising C. Heated      D. Lasting

16.A. day and night B. in and out C. now and then D. up and down

17.A. sank        B. rose         C. flew          D. hurt

18.A. watch      B. touch        C. shake        D. catch

19.A. sure      B. bad          C. tough        D. great

20.A. base        B. level       C. paper        D. theme