Conversation Two
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. [23]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 an idea. But what we write has to be prose, like prose poetry. Just to make rhyme in a poem is too easy, I guess. I think Prof. Eliot really wants to challenge us, to put our creativity to the test.
W: Well, did she give any hints about what she has in mind?
M: Not really, [24]but I may have an idea of 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 it possible? But, wait a minute. I 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. [25]What's really amazing to me is that leaving e in French is no easy job and doing it in English is gonna involve a complete different group of words. It's a real work of mind.
W: Sometime you have to show me that book. But right now I'd better get going on the writing for next week.

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23. What are the speakers assigned to write?
正確答案：A
解析：男士說：“我們要寫一篇短篇故事。但是我們寫的必須是散文，就像散文詩一樣。”根據對話中的short story以及prose得出正確答案為A.
24. Why did the man mention a book by a French author?
正確答案：D
解析：四個選項共同的成分是it，根據選項內容可以判斷it是可以閱讀的內容，故問題應該和閱讀的報刊雜志或書相關。男士說：“但是我想到她可能想要的東西。我剛讀完一個法國人寫的一本相當奇怪的書。”故D正確。
25. What point does the man make about the letter e?
正確答案：B
解析：四個選項都有it，根據選項內容判斷在此的it應該指單詞或是字母。男士說：“真正讓我詫異的是在法語中不使用e一點都不簡單，而且在把它翻譯成英語時也不使用e需要完全不同的單詞。真的是很費腦筋。”故答案是B。