单项选择题
[听力原文]
M: I didn’t see you in creative writing class today. What happened
W: Oh, 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... or constraints imposed on it.
W: What do you mean Like rhyming in a poem
M: Well, that’ll be the idea. But what we write has to be prose, as prose poetry. Just to make rhyme in a poem is too easy, I guess. I think the professor really wants to challenge us, and to put our creativity to the test.
W: Well, did she give any hints about the kind of thing she’s looking for. I just finished a really strange book by some French guy. He wrote a whole book without even using a single E.
W: A whole book without a single E How’s that possible But, wait a minute, didn’t know you can 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 E in English is going to involve a complete different group of words in French.
W: Sometime you have to show me that book. But right now I’d better get going on the writing for next week. I already have a couple of ideas thanks to you. And I think I just might be able to work it into something interesting.
A. A story in prose.
B. A poem that rhymes.
C. A translation of a short literary work.
D. A journal about the process of writing.