Back to the third grade

Chapter 22

In two days, the mock exam was over.

It is very rare that after the last exam on Sunday afternoon, school is over immediately. Many people, including Lin Mei, think that the class must continue, so after the exam, almost everyone returned to their classrooms. Zheng Kai also called The students on duty cleaned up the class.

"Really, so much rubbish!" The student on duty scolded while cleaning.

Many people have found garbage that does not belong to them in their book bins.Lin Mei also found a notebook in her book bucket, which was a boy's, with Fist of the Big Dipper animation stickers on it, and some messy things written on it.

There was a half-drunk bag of milk in Zhou Qing's bookcase, which made her very angry because the milk spilled out.

Everyone cleared out the rubbish in the book bucket and threw it on the ground, which made the students in the group on duty very angry. Zheng Kai said on the podium: "Throw all the rubbish into the trash can! Don't throw it on the ground!"

Other classes are also cleaning, and everyone wants to clean their class again.

Some people's chairs were moved to nowhere, and everyone was looking for their own chairs in the class.Lin Mei's chair was not the one she used to sit on. Although she thought it would be okay to change the chair, seeing that everyone was looking for it, she had no choice but to look for her own chair one by one.

When Teacher Zheng came over, he saw that the classroom had been cleaned, so he called Zheng Kai over and said, "After school, everyone go home. There will be no homework assigned today. I will give you a day off and don't be late tomorrow morning!"

The people in the class couldn't believe the good news for a while. After Teacher Zheng left, the boys screamed and cheered strangely, and then picked up their schoolbags and rushed downstairs.

There is no homework at night, and the time seems to be too much all of a sudden.Lin Mei, Zhou Yu, and Zhu Hai left the school, but the sky outside was still white.

"Shall we go shopping?" Zhu Hai said.

"Where are you going?"

There is only one street worth visiting near the attached middle school, which is a small road behind the attached middle school and the attached primary school. Half of it is a vegetable market, and half of it has three or four boutiques and a dollar store.

The three of them visited all the shops on this half way. Lin Mei saw that the leeks on a stall in the vegetable market were good, and she kept it in her heart.

"How did you do in the exam this time?" Zhu Hai turned to look at Lin Mei, "Lin Mei must have done well in the exam, right?"

"It's okay." Lin Mei asked Zhou Yu, "What about you? How much is the average score?"

"You should be in your early nineties." Zhou Que said, "The questions are not difficult, nothing special."

This is also how Lin Mei felt when she was doing the paper.The teachers' questions are all closely related to the syllabus, and there is no one that is out of the syllabus or particularly biased. They are all key points repeated in class.In other words, the paper this time was surprisingly simple.

"I guess everyone's scores are quite high this time." Lin Mei said with a sigh, she still wanted to become a blockbuster.If everyone does well in the exam, it will not be easy to raise the score.

When returning home, Lin Mei bought a bundle of leeks, washed a bunch and planned to eat scrambled eggs at night, and wrapped the rest in newspaper and put them in the refrigerator to keep them fresh.Recently, Ms. Lin said that she would buy more leeks and send them to my grandma's family. My grandma's family likes to make dumplings by themselves.

When Lin's mother came home, she had already prepared dinner, sweet potato and polenta porridge, steamed buns, scrambled eggs with leeks, and stewed pork belly with potatoes.

"How did you do in the exam?" Mother Lin saw that Lin Mei's expression was not very good when she came back, and was worried that she would not do well in the exam.

Lin Mei said that it was not difficult to pass the test, and Mother Lin breathed a sigh of relief and said, "If you do well in the exam, of course others can do well in the exam. Anyone who works hard can do well in the exam. It's useless to think about it. You just need to do well." When the next paper is more difficult than this, you can still pass the exam."

Lin Mei thinks about it too, she just feels a little pity, it seems that she has accumulated energy for a long time, and after exerting energy, she finds that the goal is likely to be achieved by someone, and she feels that her energy is a bit wasted, and she feels a little bit resentful if this No matter how difficult the teacher made the papers, it would be nice if they could distance themselves.

After arriving at school on Monday, Lin Mei heard that the grades came out!
The class was in a mess, so she didn't bother to study early, and listened to Zhu Hai and the others.

Zhu Hai said: "I heard that it's already out, Mr. Zheng and the others are ranking."

"I don't know when I will be ranked..." one person lamented.

There was a Chinese class in the morning, and when Mr. Zheng entered the classroom with a sullen face holding a book, everyone in the classroom hung their heads in fear.

Are the grades bad?
Even if Lin Mei was very confident in herself, she couldn't help feeling uneasy seeing Teacher Zheng's expression.

Teacher Zheng put down the textbooks and lesson plans, and said calmly: "We talked about..." last week, and the class began.

Everyone was confused and thought they would be scolded first, but it turned out like this.All of them had to open the book and listen to the lecture in a daze.

Mr. Zheng made an important point: "Remember here, draw everything with a pen!"

Everyone was so frightened that they quickly took their pens.

Teacher Zheng began to fire: "I see who is not planning! Who is still idle!!"

Lin Mei didn't dare to look up to see who wasn't drawing the book now, and everyone around couldn't bury their heads in the book so that Teacher Zheng couldn't see it.

"It's all the important points that were repeatedly emphasized in class! There are still some people who can't write in the exam! Why are you taking the exam like this? Ah? What else are you taking the exam? Go home as soon as possible!!" Teacher Zheng said angrily.

It seems that there is really no way to test.

Lin Mei felt apprehensive.Just don't know how bad the grades are?
Teacher Zheng is both the Chinese teacher and the class teacher of their class, so the Chinese performance of the third class has always been very tight. He is the leader among the five classes in the third grade, and the average score is always the highest.Just like the fourth class is the best in physics, because the head teacher of their class is a physics teacher.

No one spoke in this Chinese class. Everyone kept quiet and listened to the class obediently.After the get out of class bell rang, no one dared to move.There was the sound of other classes finishing in the corridor. People from other classes began to walk up and down the corridor, talking and fighting, and some people looked in the door curiously when they passed by the third class.

Teacher Zheng said: "The ranking will come out in the afternoon, and the self-study class will teach the papers. Class is over now."

As a class teacher, I still have a little privilege.After all, Teacher Zheng can take up the self-study papers of their class before other teachers.

After the third get out of class in the morning, Zheng Kai came back in a hurry and went to the podium to get a blackboard eraser and chalk. When he got to the classroom, he erased all the provincial and municipal high school admission scores copied on the blackboard.

Mei Lu went over quietly, and after asking, she said, "Wipe it again with a rag."

The powder puff on the blackboard doesn't look very clean.

Mei Lu hurriedly found a few rags and took them after they were soaked. She and Zheng Kai wiped the blackboard again from left to right, then found waste paper and wiped it again to dry off the moisture.

The blackboard has become as clean as new.

Zheng Kai then began to copy the blackboard according to the paper in his hand.

Everyone felt it at this time, and stood there stretching their necks to watch quietly.

Zheng Kai marked the number 1234, followed by the total score and average score, and his name at the end.Everyone read one by one.

Lin Mei held her heart until her name appeared on the blackboard, and was also read by the people around Zheng Kai.

"No. 58685 points! The average score is 965! Lin Mei!"

Lin Mei exhaled lightly, and sat down.Many students around turned their heads to look at her, and both Zhou Yu and Zhu Hai came over to pat her.

Lin Mei smiled unconsciously.

This ranking was a bit worse than she wanted, but at least it wouldn't be ashamed to take it out.

The total score of each subject is 10, and the history, geography and biology in the last afternoon are all small two-page papers, and each question has a high score.Because I heard that this year's senior high school entrance examination will issue comprehensive papers for these three subjects, the school also puts more emphasis on the papers. Compared with the main subjects, these three subjects are not very important.The approved time for each subject was six to 45 minutes, and those who answered quickly were finished in [-] minutes. They were not allowed to hand in the papers in advance, so they had to sit in a daze.

Zhou Jie is the seventh, and Zhu Hai is the No.20 one.The fourth class was a biology class. Zheng Kai took half of the class and filled the blackboard at the back, relying on the fact that the biology teacher didn't care.The scores of the whole class are all above, but the top ten are copied with rose red chalk, and the rest are all white chalk.

In the afternoon, when Lin Mei came to school, she saw the total score of the third grade mock exam posted on the blackboard next to the stairs on the first floor.Counting the whole grade together, Lin Mei ranked No. 11 in the grade this time, and she missed the top ten in the grade by one step, which is somewhat regrettable.

She also thought that she must have done well in her studies, but she couldn't even get into the top ten of her grade.

Lin Mei's complacent head cleared up a little.When the papers are sent out, you must take a good look at where you lost points.

During the self-study class, Lin Meicai found out that the reason for Teacher Zheng's anger was that their third class fell behind in terms of average marks this time, and they were ranked No.3 in the grade.

If it is only better than the top students, the third class is the best.Among the top [-], only Lin Mei's class squeezed in [-] people, and almost all of the first class came behind.

But if the average score is counted, the third class fell down all at once.

"Aren't you ashamed? Ah? You got such grades! What are you doing for food?" Teacher Zheng was very happy when she corrected the papers. Several students in the class she was optimistic about all did well in the exams, and went to other teachers. When asked there, no one was left behind.She didn't get angry until the class average was calculated.

Teacher Zheng has been a teacher all his life and has taught countless classes.She has long known that when students don't want to learn, even if others are sitting in the classroom, their hearts will already fly outside.

Teacher Zheng said on the podium: "You are not learning for me, not for your parents, but for yourself. I have said this more than once, and I will not say it again to those who do not listen."

Then she really didn't train anyone again until she finished the whole set of papers.

"It's time for winter vacation right after the mock exam, but you don't have much time, so the school plans to only put it in the third year of junior high school, and start coming to school from the fourth junior high school to continue classes." Teacher Zheng said.

Whole class: 〒▽〒

"Teachers don't have holidays anymore, it's all for you." Teacher Zheng said.

We had no choice but to accept the kindness of the teachers.

After returning home, Lin Mei told Mother Lin that the winter vacation was only for three days.

"Then I have to tell your grandma." Mother Lin said.In the past Chinese New Year, they just went to their uncle's house every day, and they didn't finish counting until the fifteenth day.

The three-day winter vacation is not called winter vacation at all.Lin Mei didn't feel like celebrating the New Year at all.

But the New Year is still here.

There are several small stalls selling guns at the entrance of the attached xiao.There was even one placed at the entrance of the attached middle school, but it was quickly driven away by the small factory manager.The school also issued a notice saying that it is not allowed to buy cannons, and it is not allowed to fire them in the school.

Mr. Zheng told the class two stories about the maiming of cannonballs. One was to use a cannon to blow up his hands and make his hand maimed. eyes, lost a lot of money.

Teacher Zheng finished speaking: "Whether it hurts your own hand or someone else's eyes, if something like this happens, you don't want to take the high school entrance exam!!"

Lin Mei: ...

She thinks this is logically correct, but the severity doesn't seem to match?Compared with the high school entrance examination, blowing off fingers or tendons or eyes seems to be more serious.

After several heavy snowfalls, the weather is getting colder and colder.Walking on the road, you can see the students of the attached primary school chasing and having snowball fights, and the children smashing snowballs in the dirty snowdrifts full of garbage swept by the roadside cleaners. Lin Mei wanted to say it several times when she passed by. "It's too dirty, don't play with the snow here".

But she held back.She has now been able to restrain herself from thinking like an adult, lest people think she is strange.

After the mock exam, everyone seemed to have exhausted their energy, as if nothing could stimulate them anymore.Everyone's mood seemed to have become very peaceful.In other words, it seems that everyone has relaxed all of a sudden. In the last ten days, everyone seems to have shifted their attention to the coming New Year.

Everyone is talking about New Years.

"I originally said that I would go to grandma's house during the Chinese New Year, but classes will start on the fourth day of the new year. My dad told my grandma that I can't go this year." Zhou Yu said that her grandma's home is out of town, and she has to take the train there every year. New Year's Eve.Zhou Hao didn't want to go to grandma's house, because Zhou's father was the second son in the family, and he was the most useless one: he was divorced.The reason for the divorce was that his wife dumped him and went to America.

So Zhou Jie was very happy not to go to grandma's house, and was in high spirits every day.

Now Lin Mei and Zhou Yu can talk about their own affairs.In the past, I always thought that Zhou Jie was a child, and he rarely talked about his thoughts.Now I feel that the friendship between her and Zhou Yu is pure, nothing is involved, and nothing will happen if I talk about it.

"I went to my grandma's house, but they didn't go to my grandma's house after they got divorced." Lin Mei seldom thought of things about Lin's father, and they seldom mentioned them at home.

"It's all the same." Zhou Jie's attitude was, "This is such an ordinary thing."

Students in the class who did not pass the mock exam are also worried.For example, Gao Yuan said: "It's over, I will definitely be scolded to death by my dad this Chinese New Year!"

Gao Yuan’s family celebrates Chinese New Year with his grandma’s house on the first day of junior high school, grandma’s house on the second day of junior high school, and his father’s colleagues come to his house on the third day of junior high school.There are cousins ​​on both sides. When a group of parents gather together during the Chinese New Year, the most common thing to talk about is their children's academic performance.

Gao Yuan used to be the tallest boy of their parents, and his relatives praised him as "he is so tall! If he plays basketball in the future, he won't have to worry about work!", but when the children of this generation are about to take the senior high school entrance examination, their grades will be high. become the new object of comparison.

Gao Yuan's words also became "Bai Chang is so big", as if he is the spokesperson of a simple mind with strong limbs.

Father Gao lost face in front of his relatives, and when he came back, he pressed his son about his studies, and then beat him.

Teacher Zheng was very nervous about the atmosphere in the class, and said in the morning self-study: "Are you relaxing now? Are you satisfied with taking a mock test? This is not the senior high school entrance examination! If you relax now, you will not be able to get a good grade in the senior high school entrance examination." Already!!"

But mental fatigue and relaxation can't be helped.Even Lin Mei studied step by step after the mock exam.After all the papers were handed out, she found that the biggest loss points were all in biology, history and geography.It's not that she didn't take the exam seriously, but that the scores for each of these three questions are exaggerated regardless of the content.Lin Mei made a mistake and filled in the blanks, one blank was worth five points!It was a pain for her.

But it also set off alarm bells for her.For the four main subjects, she hardly lost points. The Chinese reading comprehension and homework lost the most points, such as mathematics, physics, and English, all of which were high scores of 97 and 98.It can be said that what she has to do now is to continue to consolidate.But the sub-subject has become her new blind spot.It was because she didn't pay enough attention to it that she became a big loser.

But even so, her current focus is still on the main subject.Because after the start of the second half of the school year, the teacher will take them to start reviewing the content of the first and second grades.This is completely new to her, although it is not difficult, especially when she reads the textbook of the first grade of junior high school, it simply makes her want to dance.

But the content is not small.

As for the sub-subject, she can only promise to spend more time and concentrate on memorizing it.

Chinese New Year is coming soon.Lin Mei received more New Year's money than in previous years!This is all because of her good grades in the mock exam.When grandma and grandpa saw her, they said: "We Meimei have worked hard this year, buy more delicious food for the lucky money, and try to get into a good school!"

Uncle also gave lucky money of up to 500 yuan.Mother Lin only prepared one hundred for Taotao, and the two children gave each other that price!Lin Mei saw that Lin's mother was angry at that time, "Why are you giving the child so much?"

The uncle rolled the money into Lin Mei's pocket with a cigarette in his mouth: "The child studies hard, and I am rewarding the child." He said to her, "Meimei keeps it! Don't be afraid of what uncle gives, don't listen to your mother. "

Turning around, Lin Mei stuffed the money from her uncle to Mama Lin, "Give Taotao the New Year's money." When I came to grandma's house today, in addition to the fruit, wine and oil, Mama Lin brought 200 yuan as a pawn. mobile money.Definitely not much.On the contrary, Lin Mei collected the lucky money and made seven hundred.

Lin's mother had no choice but to take Lin Mei's 300 yuan first and said, "Go back and mother will pay you back."

"No need. Keep it." Lin Mei waved her hand and said.

"You take it yourself." Mother Lin still insisted that she collect the lucky money herself, "Go out with your classmates to buy a book and something to eat."

Lin Mei is now accustomed to visit the Xinhua Bookstore once a week to see if there are any new examination papers and tutorial books.In the afternoon of the second day of junior high school, I went to the bookstore about last week.

During the Chinese New Year, the bookstore is open as usual, and there are fewer people shopping.

Zhou Yu and Lin Mei walked back and forth among the bookshelves arm in arm, Zhou Yu said that her mother called her last night.

"She said she had already bought Mike's CD for me, and she would send it to me. My dad said it was not cheap and would return the money to her." Zhou Jie said, she felt that Zhou's father and Zhou's mother did not seem to be the same as before. It's a united front.

"Your father doesn't want you to go?" Lin Mei also felt it.

"Maybe, what he said recently is to let me study hard for the exam, and he said that he was not good before. Telling me this when I am so important is to distract me." Zhou Yu has already forgiven Zhou's father, "He also told me not to worry about the drop in my previous grades. It was all his fault. As long as I study hard, I will definitely get good grades in the exam."

When I returned to school on the fourth day of junior high school, the whole school was empty.Only the third graders need to come to school early to start classes.After arriving at the school, everyone exchanged the Spring Festival Gala and their lucky money, and then handed in their homework, as if they had never had a holiday, and everyone quickly resumed the rhythm of class.

At the end of the second period, extra meals were still delivered, but only bread, no buns.It is said that the master chef who made buns returned to his hometown for the New Year.

A lot of bricks and gravel appeared in the corner of the playground, covered with snow.I heard that they are ready to dig the foundation and start building a new teaching building.

All the teachers in the third grade have started to work, and the schedule is still the same as before.When the biology teacher came to class, he smiled and said, "It's all for you, I didn't even go home."

Everyone responded to Teacher Xu for the first time and laughed.

There are still two texts left in Chinese, and Mr. Zheng finished one class at a very fast speed. There is no heuristic teaching, and he does not ask questions in class. He just talks very quickly.Lin Mei had to practice shorthand to keep up. When class was over, both Zhou Yan and Zhu Hai came to borrow her textbooks and wanted to copy notes.However, although Lin Mei had memorized everything, she still remembered a lot that only she could understand, so she sat aside and explained to them.

Zhou Que said, "Is this shorthand? I think my dad's notebook looks like this."

Zhu Hai copied without raising his head, and asked, "Lin Mei, have you ever learned shorthand?"

Lin Mei was fooling around.

In the afternoon self-study class, Teacher Zheng also finished the last text, and even took them to finish the exercises after class: she said the answer, where in the text, and the idea of ​​​​solving the problem. Copy below.

After finally finishing the lecture, Teacher Zheng closed the book and said solemnly: "The text has been finished. The review will officially start tomorrow. Bring your textbooks and workbooks for the first and second grades of junior high school, and we will review from the beginning!"

Teachers of other subjects also finished their new lessons within this week and started reviewing.

The real battle starts from this moment.

(End of this chapter)