hope for redemption

Chapter 72 Whatever's

No. [-] Middle School attaches great importance to this English competition. In addition to Yang Rouhua, who is the leader of the English team, the school also sent four directors of the teaching department to join the team.

The school directly rented a van to send them to Changsha, and then flew directly to Beijing from Huanghua Airport.No. [-] Middle School also spent a lot of money this time. The hotel they found in the third ring road was only two stations away from the competition venue, and Jiang Xi and Wang Xuan lived in single rooms.

It was past three o'clock in the afternoon when they set off to Beijing at noon. Although Jiang Xi had taken airsickness medicine in advance, he was still not feeling well.

The teachers are not familiar with Beijing, so instead of going out to eat, they chose a restaurant with the highest rating and ordered takeaway.Jiang Xi hadn't recovered from the airsickness symptoms yet, his head was groggy and his stomach felt nauseous, he took a few sips of the delivered seaweed egg drop soup and went straight to bed, until Lin Wang called him It suddenly occurred to me that I forgot to report his safety.

"Hey, brother..." Jiang Xi closed his eyes and shouted in a muffled voice.

"Woke you up?" Lin Wang's side was very quiet, so quiet that he could hear the sound of water droplets falling, Jiang Xi estimated that he should be in the toilet now.

"Well... I'm here, I fell asleep and forgot to send you a message," Jiang Xi said with a yawn.

"It's all right," Lin Wang said, "Are you feeling unwell? How's your place?"

"Airsickness, it's much better after a good night's sleep. The place where I live is not bad, it's very close to the competition place." Jiang Xi stood up the pillow and leaned on it, "Want to see it?"

"No, I'm still in school," Lin Wang lowered his voice, "Take care of yourself, don't be nervous during tomorrow's game, the most important thing is that you must remember to blow-dry your hair after you wash it, you know, don't blow it every time ..."

"Oh, I see. You've said it several times." Jiang Xi pouted, "I'll pay attention."

"I haven't seen you remember it no matter how many times I said it," Lin Wang said in a serious tone, "I don't want you to pay attention, but I want you to know it."

"Ah... I will..." Jiang Xi's answer obviously lacked confidence.

"You are really..." Lin Wang was about to say something but was interrupted by the class bell ringing, he hurriedly hung up the phone after giving some instructions in the last few seconds.

After talking with Lin Wang, Jiang Xi originally planned to continue to sleep, but not long after he closed his eyes, someone knocked on his door. He turned on the light and looked through the peephole to find that it was Wang Xuan.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Xi put his hand against the edge of the door and asked.

"Section Chief Ding wants us to go to 421 for a meeting." Wang Xuan adjusted her glasses and said.

"Oh, okay, I'll go after washing my face." Jiang Xi thanked with a smile.

He and Wang Xuan didn't know each other very well, but they both had heard of each other's names, because both of them were No. 1 bosses for a long time.The two of them only started to meet after this English training camp. Jiang Xi has a good impression of her. She doesn't have the arrogance of a top student, and her behavior makes people feel very comfortable.

Jiang Xi's affection for a person is based on his own first impression, as long as the first impression that this person gives him is comfortable, then he has the most basic affection for this person and is willing to associate with him.Some people feel uncomfortable when he first feels it, no matter how happy the future cooperation is, Jiang Xi will always feel a little alienated in his heart.

Facts have proved that Jiang Xi's first impression is basically quite accurate.

He washed his face, flattened his raised hair with water, and went to 421 with his mobile phone. When he arrived, everyone was already in the room.

After he arrived, the boss who led the team this time, that is, the section chief of their grade, started a long speech. What he said was nothing more than don’t be nervous and relax. It doesn’t matter whether you win the award this time, what matters is you With the participatory process... blah blah blah a whole lot.

Section Chief Ding probably has been a leader for a long time. Even if there are only two of them, he can still show the momentum of speaking in front of the whole school. He stood there with his hands behind his back for more than an hour.

Several other leaders followed closely behind, showing the momentum and enthusiasm of the college entrance examination mobilization meeting. They talked more and more excitedly and took longer. Jiang Xi suspected that if Yang Rouhua hadn't stopped them in the end, they would probably be able to Speak passionately and energetically here all night.

"Remember to take the test admission ticket and put it together with your ID card. We will gather in the lobby downstairs at [-] o'clock tomorrow morning. After breakfast, we will walk to the competition venue." Yang Rouhua handed them the test bag containing the test admission ticket. "Tomorrow morning The initial test only includes the written part, and the second test in the afternoon is a written test and an oral test, and you have to prepare well."

"it is good"

"Ok"

Jiang Xi responded, took the test bag, checked the admission ticket and the answering tools inside, and zipped it up after confirming that it was correct.

"After the re-examination, there is a two-day break, and the results will be released two days later. Students who have not passed will go back with Director Wang and Director Fan. Students who have passed will follow me and Section Chief Ding to prepare for the final here." Yang Rouhua watched Holding the phone, he talked about the schedule, "Of course I have great confidence in the two of you, and I believe that both of you can enter the finals."

"You can look at the test questions again tonight, but pay attention to the time, don't study too late. Well... Wang Xuan, you still need to pay more attention to your spoken English, the ups and downs of your voice. If you can't, you You can come and ask me or you can go to Jiang Xi to have a simulated conversation with him, Jiang Xi's American-English pronunciation is perfect."

"Good teacher," Wang Xuan nodded seriously.

During the training camp, Jiang Xi had heard Wang Xuan's spoken language, how should I say it...it was completely different, either American accent or British accent, or what is commonly known as "Chinglish" on the Internet.Later, Yang Rouhua trained her alone for half an hour before she changed a little bit, and brought a little American tone.

However, this competition is nationwide. Students in Jiangsu and Shanghai have already started oral training to find foreign teachers. Wang Xuan probably suffered a disadvantage in the interview this time.

This is where English education in Hunan Province is weak. They follow the baton of the college entrance examination and do not pay attention to oral English training.

Later, Yang Rouhua explained some miscellaneous things before letting them go back to the room. The first thing Jiang Xi did after returning to the room was to check whether there were monitors, miniature cameras and other things in the room.

He took out the detector he bought when he met Mochel last time, turned off the light and scanned around, and finally found two miniature video recorders at the air supply vent of the central air conditioner and the exhaust fan in the bathroom.

Looking at the two small black instruments with red light in front of him, Jiang Xi bit his lower lip and hesitated, wondering if he should take his things to other people's rooms to search around. After thinking for a long time, he decided to go to one. trip.

He took the things and went to Wang Xuan and Yang Rouhua's room, and scanned the inside and outside. He found five cameras in the two rooms, and they were basically in the bathroom.

After finding out the things, Jiang Xi breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was a good thing he went, otherwise some bad pictures of these things would be taken and posted on the Internet... The men are all right, mainly Yang Rouhua and Wang Xuan, if they were put naked on the Internet, Jiang Xi couldn't even imagine what would happen to their lives in the future.

Finally, they went to the hotel manager to explain the matter to him. The manager immediately called the police. The police came and took the things away and said that they would find out the results as soon as possible and give them an answer. They were finally exempted from staying without spending a penny. In this hotel.

As for this detector, Jiang Xi randomly found an infrared scanner with a similar shape on Taobao and fooled it. Before returning to the room, Yang Rouhua still had lingering fears beside him, muttering that he must buy one and take it with him at all times.

After returning to the room, Jiang Xi quickly washed up, then took out the practice questions that Lin Wang prepared for him. It took nearly an hour to complete the questions and correct the answers. Although it was a bit slower, the correct rate increased. After marking the topics that you understand, turn off the lights and go to sleep, so as to keep your spirits up for tomorrow's competition.

The next morning, Jiang Xi got up from the bed at seven o'clock in the morning, washed, dressed, and dried her hair while listening to the BBC broadcast, and then carried the schoolbag that she packed last night to gather in the hall.

Jiang Xi ate salted bean curd for the first time at the snack street outside the hotel. He thought it was sweet bean curd when he ordered it, but he didn't expect that when it was served, it was salted bean curd with meat sauce and peanuts.

Because he grew up in Guangzhou, he always ate sweet bean curd with sugar or honey, so he always thought that bean curd was only sweet. It was not until this breakfast that he knew that bean curd was also salty.

He tried it and found it to be okay, similar to the taste of tofu with minced meat.

The start time of the competition was set at 09:30. When they passed slowly, they just caught up with the candidates to enter the arena early. Yang Rouhua gave them a few symbolic explanations and let them in.

The test location for this competition should be the administrative building of a nearby university, there are more than 100 test rooms in total, Jiang Xi is in test room 46 and Wang Xuan is in test room 72.

The written test in the morning was quite simple. There was still more than half an hour after Jiang Xi finished the test, and he still didn't check it as usual. After sitting in the chair for a while, he picked up the pen and wrote the physical formula silently on the scratch paper.

After the exam, Yang Rouhua took them directly to have lunch, and then went back to the hotel to prepare for the lunch break, so as to get ready for the re-examination in the afternoon.

Jiang Xi planned to use his lunch break to review the physics notes that Lin Wang had organized for himself, but when he just started to remember, there was a knock on his door.

Just like last night, the person who came was Wang Xuan.

"Well, the oral test is going to take place this afternoon. You know my oral English too. I wonder if you can help me simulate a situational conversation." Wang Xuan rubbed her hands in embarrassment and said.

"Ah..." Jiang Xi was stunned for a while, and replied after thinking for a while, "Ah, yes... let's... let's go to the open-air balcony."

"it is good,"

Each floor of this hotel has a small open-air balcony with some flowers and plants planted around it.No one would come to the balcony at noon, so Jiang Xi took Wang Xuan to find a shady place.

After discussing with Wang Xuan, they found two topics and started a simulated situational dialogue.

"Uh... no, you pronounced the accent of this word wrong, you should put the accent on the syllable de," Jiang Xi interrupted Wang Xuan's answer, "And when you pronounce 'l', Lift the front of the tongue so that it does not touch the upper gums, and retract the vocal cords to pronounce."

Wang Xuan nodded, raised her chin slightly and tried to make a sound according to Jiang Xi's method.

"Hmm..." Jiang Xi rubbed his chin, feeling a bit out of touch, and made a demonstration by himself, "Try again."

"Okay," Wang Xuan blinked in panic, and tried again.

Something was still wrong. Jiang Xi thought for a while and began to recall how An Sheng taught himself pronunciation before. After trying to organize his words, he said to Wang Xuan: "Can I put my hand on your throat?"

"Ah... yes, yes," Wang Xuan's eyes became flustered, and her fingers were rubbed behind her back.

Jiang Xi coughed lightly and put her index finger and middle finger together on her throat: "Try sending it again."

Wang Xuan made another sound, and he found the problem based on the trembling of his fingers.

"Here," Jiang Xi poked a spot, "here, use force."

Following Jiang Xi's guidance, Wang Xuan finally pronounced the sound correctly.

"Well, it's great," Jiang Xi smiled and gave her encouragement, and then continued the situational conversation.

The two only practiced two themes. Jiang Xi corrected the pronunciation of some words for her, and talked about the use of falling intonation and authentic spoken English. These things are regular and can be shorthanded.

"Okay, thank you very much," Wang Xuan said, wiping the sweat from her forehead.

"It's okay." Jiang Xi touched the tip of his nose, opened the balcony door and walked towards the room, "As long as it helps you."

"Well, thank you very much for yesterday's incident. If you hadn't brought something here, Teacher Yang and I would have been photographed," Wang Xuan said.

"It's okay, you girls must pay attention to these when you stay in a hotel in the future. Now there are cameras everywhere." Jiang Xi reminded.

"Well, yes, I will pay attention," Wang Xuan took a peek at Jiang Xi and continued to ask, "Did you buy that thing on Taobao yesterday? Can you send me the link?"

"Ah?" Jiang Xi was stunned when she asked her this question. Yesterday, he was looking for it temporarily. If the effect is good, he really doesn't know. If Wang Xuan buys it back, if the effect is not good...

Jiang Xi really didn't know how to answer her question. After hesitating and thinking for a long time, he finally agreed, thinking that after returning to the room later, he would have to find someone with good appearance and quality to send it to someone.

After returning to the room, Jiang Xi went shopping on Taobao, shopped around and finally picked out one she was satisfied with and sent it to Wang Xuan. She glanced at the time and found that there was only one hour left to review physics, so she set an alarm clock and wrapped it up. I slept under the quilt.

In the afternoon, I still walked there, and it was called a wake-up call for them.

The first is the written test, which is the same format as in the morning, except that the questions in the written test are significantly more difficult this time, but it is still very simple for Jiang Xi.

After the written test, the invigilator called everyone to arrange the seats together, leaving a space in the middle.Then stand outside the door and prepare for the oral test in the order of candidate number from small to large.

There are three modes of oral examinations. The first one is to give you a situation to have a situational dialogue with the invigilator, which is also the most common test.The second is to randomly select topics for you to talk to the robot.The third is to give you lines and let you dub TV dramas. This is the most difficult and least frequently tested.

The mode of the test is chosen by yourself by lottery. Each test room has a lottery bucket, which contains the numbers corresponding to each mode.The first mode has the largest proportion, and it decreases according to the difficulty.

Jiang Xi was very 'lucky' to get the third mode, dubbing for American dramas.

"This candidate, you have 10 minutes to watch the lines and prepare," the invigilator handed Jiang Xi the paper with the lines printed on it.

Jiang Xi took it, and when he saw the lines written on the paper, he couldn't hold back the joy in his heart, and raised his eyebrows in surprise.

This turned out to be the mixed-cut lines of the seventh season preview of Game of Thrones!

You must know that Jiang Xi has been chasing Game of Thrones for so long, and he can clearly remember every line, not to mention his favorite trailer for the seventh season.

There is no need to give him time to prepare, he can go directly.Whether it's Cersei or Mother of Dragons, Jiang Xi can imitate every accent of their emotions. When the trailer came out, Jiang Xi didn't know how many times he watched and imitated it. Take it out for observation.

Jiang Xi is undoubtedly very excited now, not because he has encountered a familiar topic, but because he finally has the opportunity to dub this drama, which is still his favorite segment, and he can't wait to show his skills.

After the candidates have watched the lines, the examiner will play the original video three times for the candidates to familiarize them with the video.This kind of oral test not only tests your intonation but also tests your sense of language, vocabulary and shorthand ability. It is a test of comprehensive ability.

"OK, Are you ready?" the examiner asked.

"Yes, Iam." Jiang Xi replied confidently.

The examiner clicked on the video, and the back of a woman wearing a crown gradually changed from blurry to clear with the sound of clanging high-heeled shoes.

Jiang Xi took a deep breath, put the lines aside, stared at the screen and clicked to speak.

"Enemies to the East. Enemies to the West. Enemies to the South. Enemies to the North."

"Whatever stands sin our way, we will defeat it. Weare the last Lannisters, the last stone who counts."

"I was born to rule the seven kingdoms, and I will."

"The king in the North!"

The author has something to say:

Okay, Chapter [-] is dropped~~~ Please check it.

I really love the trailer for Game of Thrones season [-], I did voiceover countless times.

I still remember that when it first came out, I was still a student in the ordinary class, and I was sprinting for the top class at that time, because if you want to choose liberal arts in our school, you can only have a chance of being admitted to 221 and 985 in the top class , My older brothers and sisters are worst at Wuhan University, so I am under a lot of pressure, and the minimum I have to do is to be admitted to the top class.

At that time, I really worked hard. I studied at [-] o'clock in the evening, and I got up at [-] o'clock in the morning to start studying.At that time, I broke down and cried while doing the questions. Every time I couldn’t hold on, I watched this trailer. It really accompanied me through that difficult time but I tried my best.

Later, when I was in the college entrance examination, I suffered from depression many times. I was studying while pricking myself with a needle, and I watched this video many times when I couldn’t hold on. Although I didn’t get into the university I wanted to enter in the end, the ending was still good. Yes, now this university is not bad and its ranking is quite high, and I chose the ace major.

So, I recommend this video to you, hoping to help you.

Whatever stands sin our way, we will defeat it.

Whatever stands in our way, we'll beat him.

I like this sentence the most.