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 1 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 2.The forged (伪造的) excuse notes made a large pile, with writing that ranged from imaginative to crazy. The3of those notes didn't realize that honest excuse notes were usually 4：“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 5excuse notes, they were brilliant.

    So one day I gave the excuse notes to my classes, saying，“They're 6to be written by parents, but actually they are not. True, Micky? ” The students looked at me 7.

    “Now, this will be the first class to study the 8of the excuse notes—the first class, ever, to practice writing them. You're so 9to have a teacher like me who has taken your best writing and turned it into a 10worthy of study.”

    Everyone smiled as I went on, “You used your 11. So try more now. Today I'd like you to write ‘An Excuse Note from Adam/Eve to God'.”12 went down. Pens raced 13paper. For the first time ever I saw students so 14in their writing that they had to be asked to go to lunch by their friends.

    The next day everyone had excuse notes. 15 discussions followed. The headmaster entered the classroom and walked 16 ， looking at papers, and then said, “I'd like you to see me in my office.” My heart 17.

    When I stepped into his office, he came to 18my hand and said, “I just want to tell you that that lesson, that task, whatever the hell you were doing, was 19.Those kids were writing on the college20.Thank you.”

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：

①每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

②只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Dear Tom，

I'm glad to hear that you are coming for a holiday in our city the next month. I'm such happy that you will stay in my house.

There have been greatly changes in the last three year in my home. First, we have rebuilt your house, which now has four private rooms. You can choose any of them to live when you come. Second, my parents have set up a small restaurant in our village, that you can eat healthily. I'm really willing to be your guide to make your journey interested and meaningful.

    If you had any requests, don't hesitate to let me know. Looking forward to hear from you. 

      Yours，

Li Hua

A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.

Frank Hurley's pictures would be outstanding—undoubtedly firstrate photojournalism—if they had been made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck (海难), by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.

The ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegianbuilt threemaster that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica's Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled (雪橇) across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.

As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and wellresearched story TheEndurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort. Scott's last journey, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world's imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchantnavy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never been published before.