人常说，母爱如水，父爱如山。父亲的苦心孤诣、呕心沥血，做孩子的常常难以完全领悟。

    提起写一封信给父亲，你会想起什么？是李连杰的电影《给爸爸的信》，多年前李春波的成名曲《一封家书》，还是大师朱自清的名篇《背影》？

    也许都不是，因为你总有独特的话，想送给自己独特的父亲。

    2014“外研社杯”全国英语写作大赛决赛的赛题之一，就是续写A Letter on Father’s Day。

    瞧：

    Narrative Writing

    Read the beginning of the letter below and then continue it following the writer’s line of thought. Complete the letter in 600–800 words.

A Letter on Father’s Day

    Dear Dad,

    Today I was at the shopping mall and I spent a lot of time reading the Father’s Day cards. They all had a special message that in some way or another reflected how I feel about you. Yet as I selected and read them over and over again, it occurred to me that not a single card said what I really want to say to you.

    You’ll soon be 84 years old, Dad, and you and I will have had 55 Father’s Days together.

    You know, Dad, there was a time when we were not only separated by a generation gap but completely polarized by it. You stood on one side of the Great Divide and I on the other, split apart by age and experience, opinion, hairstyle, clothing, curfew, music, and friends.

    …

    I love you, Dad.

    怎么样，信的口吻是不是莫名击中了你的心门？！最后一句“I love you, Dad.”更是戳中泪点。

    这是我们多久没做的事了？静下心来，用奇妙的字母单词组合成真挚的爱。年底已至，有些感情心事不得不说出口了。   

    今天，我们正式向有爱有话想对父亲说的你征文，即以这一大赛题目和要求为主题，面向所有学子，号召你们写下此时此刻心里的所思所想，向父亲致意！

    征文时间：即日起至2015年1月30日。

    投稿邮箱：请将word版“给父亲的信”邮寄至ewriting@fltrp.com

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