A Writing Assignment
Mrs. Peabody, the English teacher, gave the class a writing assignment. "Write something in some way related to summer vacation," she said. "Be as creative as you can. But," the teacher added, "make sure you use proper spelling and grammar."
That night Jim sat at his desk at home and stared at a blank sheet of paper. He didn't want to write about his summer vacation as usual. What could he write about, except a dog, a water park and two weeks of camp? Boring... He'd actually been happy to get back to school.
So he wrote what he wanted. Not an essay at all but a short story, science fiction. It was about a distant planet that didn't have summer—it was spring all the time. And it didn't have vacations either. The aliens on the planet worked 24 hours a day. They wished they had vacations.
The next morning he handed in the story, but later that night he lay awake until 3 A. m., thinking, "Why did I do that? Will Mrs. Peabody think I ignored the assignment?" English was his favorite class. Maybe he would be g Mrs. Peabody for a chance to write another one, the sort she wanted.
But when he got to class the following day, it turned out that Mrs. Peabody had already read and graded the essays.
The teacher said, "I'm going to pass back your summer vacation writings in a minute. I'm afraid I've got some rather harsh words to say. Almost everyone in class simply wrote an essay about his or her summer vacation… Almost everyone."
"This is bad," Jim thought, "I'm getting an F. I know it."
"But," the teacher continued, "one of you had the courage to be as imaginative as I asked you to be. Jim Martin was the only one who got an A on the assignment."
Jim couldn't believe his ears.
注意：
1）续写词数应为120个左右；
2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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When Mrs. Peabody invited Jim to share some thoughts on his writing, other students were all looking at him expectantly.
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Mrs. Peabody thought it was time to explain Jim's grade.
