21世纪实用研究生英语系列教程：专业学位硕士研究生英语_顾明远，等著_9787300120805

　　为更好地适应我国经济建设和社会发展对高层次应用型人才的迫切需要，积极发展具有中国特色的专业学位教育，多位长期致力于研究生英语教学与研究的一线教师通力合作，打造了《专业学位硕士研究生英语》一书。《专业学位硕士研究生英语》既可供全日制专业学位硕士研究生使用，也可作为在职攻读专业学位的硕士生教材。

　　[1] I was in my third year of teaching creative writing at Ralph Mckee VocationalSchool in Staten Island, New York, when one of my students, 16-year-old Mikey, gave mea note from his mother. It explained his absence from class the day before.
　　[2] "Dear Mr. McCourt, Mikeys grandmother who is eighty years of age fell downthe stairs from too much coffee3 and I kept Mikey at home to take care of her and hisbaby sister so I could go to my job at the ferry terminal. Please excuse Mikey and hell dohis best in the future. P.S. His grandmother is OK." I had seen Mikey writing the note athis desk, using his left hand to disguise his handwriting. I said nothing.
　　[3] Most parental-excuse notes I received back in those days were penned by mystudents. Theyd been forging excuse notes since they learned to write, and if I were toconfront each forger Id be busy 24 hours a day.
　　[4] I threw Mikeys note into a desk drawer along with dozens of other notes. Whilemy classes took a test, I decided to read all the notes Id only glanced at before. I madetwo piles, one for the genuine ones written by mothers, the other for forgeries. Thesecond was the larger pile, with writing that ranged from imaginative to lunatic.
　　[5] I was having an epiphany.
　　[6] Isnt it remarkable, I thought, how the students whined and said it was hardputting 200 words together on any subject？ But when they forged excuse notes, theywere brilliant. The notes I had could be turned into an anthology of Great AmericanExcuses. They were samples of talent never mentioned in song, story or study.
　　[7] Here was American high school writing at its best——raw, real, urgent, lucid, brief,and lying. I read:
　　[8] The stove caught fire and the wallpaper went up and the fire department keptus out of the house all night.

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