A、To practice students’ translation skills. B、To challenge students’ patience. C、To test students’ creativity. D、To broaden stud

M:(4)I didn’t see you in creative writing class today. What happened?
W: Oh,(4)just a dentist appointment. That’s all. Say, did we get a new assignment for next week?
M: Yeah. A really interesting one, actually. We’re supposed to write a short story that has some sort of limitation or, constraints imposed on it.
W: What do you mean? Like rhyming in a poem?
M: Well, that’s the idea. But what we write has to be prose, as post poetry. Just making a rhyme would be too easy, I guess.(5)I think Prof. Bush really wants to challenge us, to put our creativity to the test.
W: Well, did she give any sort of hints about what she has in mind?
M: No really, but I may have an idea the kind of thing she’s looking for. I just finished reading a really strange book by some French guy.(6)He wrote a whole thing without ever using a letter
W: A whole book without a single "e" ? How’s that possible? But, wait a minute. I didn’t know you could read French.
M: I can’t. I read the English translation. But get this. There’s not one "e" in that either.
W: No way. Think of the words you couldn’t use.
M: I know, but that translator manages it. I got the book at home if you want to check out for yourself. What’s really amazing to me is that leaving out the "e" in English has got to involve a complete different group of words and ending than in French. It’s really incredible.
W: Sometime you have to show me that book.(7)But right now I better get going the writing for next week. I have already had a couple of ideas thanks to you. And I think I just might be able to work on it meant to something interesting.