Soon, it was time for class again.
The last two periods were both English, and the English teacher came in with test papers, starting a pop quiz, and the students below groaned one by one.
“Why another test? Didn’t we just have a test last week?”
“Yeah, we’re all numb from so many tests.”
The English teacher frowned slightly.
He scanned the crowd and said with dissatisfaction,
“We’ve already finished all the courses for the three years of high school. The following year will be all review and test papers.
I advise you to be prepared. There will only be more pop quizzes in the future.”
Zhou Yining nodded in agreement, but these were all minor things to her.
She was very good at studying.
In her previous life, Zhou Yining had been admitted to the best liberal arts university in the country, and she was even recommended for postgraduate studies.
Her path could be said to have been smooth.
Zhou Yining wasn’t afraid of doing it again.
Her English grades were actually very good. She got a perfect score on the college entrance exam in her previous life.
Later, when she went to university, she also spent a year abroad as an exchange student before returning to China.
Therefore, Zhou Yining’s spoken English was very good, unlike the half-baked English of ordinary high school students.
After receiving the test paper, she quickly scanned it, and then started doing the questions while listening to the listening comprehension that the teacher was playing.
Zhou Yining had a solid foundation.
Even if she hadn’t touched the subject of English for a long time, once she started concentrating and thinking, the knowledge she once had began to come back little by little.
She answered the questions very seriously and quickly.
Multiple-choice questions and tests were a piece of cake for her.
She also wrote the reading comprehension questions very quickly because she had exchanged abroad for a year, and she had no pressure to read.
At the end of the composition, the topic asked the test-takers to introduce the traditional Chinese festival, the Spring Festival, to a friend abroad.
Zhou Yining immediately started answering the question.
When she wrote in English, her handwriting was quite neat, with small, flowery tails, which looked pleasing to the eye.
Zhou Yining finished the entire English test paper in only forty minutes, and she even checked it once.
The English teacher was a man in his forties.
Seeing Zhou Yining constantly flipping through the test paper, he frowned and said, “Zhou Yining, what are you doing? Have you finished the test paper?”
“I’ve finished it.” Zhou Yining looked at the English teacher frankly.
The English teacher frowned at her, obviously disliking students arguing with him, “Bring your test paper up here.”
Zhou Yining got up and took the test paper to the podium.
When she went up, there was a burst of laughter from the originally quiet class.
Many people were waiting to see Zhou Yining make a fool of herself.
The English teacher glared at Zhou Yining and took Zhou Yining’s test paper over unhappily, grading it on the spot.
The more he graded, the deeper his frown became.
This test paper was the mid-term exam paper from other counties and districts in Nanchuan City.
When the English teacher saw that Zhou Yining had gotten all the answers correct, he suspected that Zhou Yining had done these questions before.
He frowned and asked, “Have you done this test paper before?”
Zhou Yining shook her head frankly, “No.”
“Then you searched for the answers yourself just now, didn’t you? It’s almost the third year of high school.
Put away those useless little thoughts. You can search for the answers now, but can you do that in the college entrance exam?”
The English teacher glared at Zhou Yining with an unkind tone.
He spoke very loudly, and the class was very quiet, so everyone’s attention was focused here.
“I didn’t search for the answers. I completed these questions myself.”
Zhou Yining stood there straight, neither humble nor arrogant.
The more she was like this, the angrier the English teacher became. He threw the test paper in his hand on the table,
“You still completed it yourself. Don’t you know your own English grades? It’s almost the third year of high school. Instead of searching for the answers, you should do a few questions yourself.”
Zhou Yining still looked at the English teacher,
“I said that I did this test paper myself, but you obviously don’t believe it, so there’s no point in me explaining it again.”
“Outrageous, what kind of attitude is this!”
The English teacher was so angry that he got up from his seat directly.
He pushed his glasses and pointed his finger at Zhou Yining,
“Is this your attitude towards teachers? I’m doing this for your own good. Learning is for yourself, not to deceive me.”
Zhou Yining still looked at the English teacher calmly, “I know, but I really wrote this test paper.”
Zhou Yining could understand the English teacher’s suspicion, but she didn’t agree with the English teacher’s approach.
If he doubted her, he could ask her to do another test paper.
There was no need to shout in class.
“Unrepentant.” The English teacher was so angry that he wanted to hit Zhou Yining.
Zhou Yining took a step back and said, “If you don’t believe me, you can give me another test paper to do, but if you hit me today, I’ll call the police immediately.”
“You, okay Zhou Yining, you’re usually quiet, but I didn’t realize you were so good at making people angry. You want to do a test paper, right?
Okay, I’ll grant you that. If you can’t do the next test paper, you’ll have to do a self-criticism in front of the whole class later.”
The English teacher continued angrily.
“Okay, then if I still get all the answers correct? Will you apologize to me in front of the whole class, teacher?”
Zhou Yining’s lips curled into a smile.
“You still want me to apologize? Okay, I want to see if you can get all the answers correct. You’ll sit here at the podium and answer the questions later. I’ll stare at you.”
The English teacher looked like he was staring at her, seeing how she would cheat.
Zhou Yining’s gaze met the English teacher’s gaze directly, “Okay.”
The English teacher was sweating on his forehead from anger, “Yu Yang, go and get the test paper on my desk.”
“Okay, teacher.”
The English class representative hurried to the office, and five minutes later, she brought back a new test paper.
The English teacher gave the test paper to Zhou Yining and sneered,
“This is the spare test paper for the last mid-term exam. It hasn’t been used. I was originally planning to leave it for you to do as homework in a few days, but since you’re so awesome, then do it now.”
“Okay, teacher.”
Zhou Yining didn’t hesitate and reached out to take the test paper from the English teacher, and then walked calmly towards the desk.
She put the test paper there and sat down very calmly at the desk.
Taking a pen from the English teacher, Zhou Yining was ready to answer the questions.
She scanned the test paper and found that this set of test papers was more difficult than the one she had just done, but it was a piece of cake for her.
She smiled at the English teacher and said,
“Teacher, what about the listening comprehension part?”
“Just leave the listening comprehension blank.”
The English teacher said disdainfully.
He didn’t believe that Zhou Yining could get all the answers correct on this test paper.
The English teacher moved a stool and sat on the podium.
He happened to sit diagonally behind Zhou Yining, staring at Zhou Yining.
He didn’t believe it, he couldn’t deal with Zhou Yining?
He hated students arguing with him and challenging his authority the most.
Zhou Yining didn’t care about these gazes at all.
She was someone who had seen big scenes in her previous life.
She wasn’t afraid of the gazes of others on her.
Zhou Yining began to write the questions quickly.
She wrote multiple-choice questions extremely quickly.
After reviewing the questions, she could immediately select the correct answer.
The same was true for the cloze test.
Except for the reading comprehension, which took a little time to read and waste, the rest was completely without difficulty for Zhou Yining.
The faster she wrote, the more scornfully the English teacher glared at her, thinking that she was just writing nonsense.
Half an hour later, Zhou Yining had finished writing everything except the composition and had checked it once.
She began to write the composition.
This time, the topic was to ask the test-taker to introduce the scenery on the trip to a friend.
Zhou Yining wrote effortlessly.
This time, she used the flowery English writing method again.
Throughout the entire composition, Zhou Yining didn’t stop.
Forty minutes later, Zhou Yining finished writing this test paper again.
She got up, picked up the test paper, and looked at the English teacher, “Teacher, I’ve finished answering.”
The English teacher grabbed the test paper, sat down at the desk, and started grading the test paper with a red pen against the answer key.
Zhou Yining just stood aside with a smile on her lips and watched.
The English teacher finished grading the multiple-choice questions and found that Zhou Yining had gotten all the answers correct again.
He then looked at the cloze test, which was still all correct, and then all the questions after that were also correct.
The English teacher’s face turned red, and he was actually sweating on his head.
He took a few deep breaths, raised his eyes and glanced at Zhou Yining.
Seeing Zhou Yining smiling, he was even more angry.
The English teacher comforted himself in his heart, thinking that it would be too easy not to let her get a perfect score, wouldn’t it be enough to deduct a few points from the composition?
His eyes looked at the composition section, and the whole person was directly stunned.
Zhou Yining’s composition was written very fluently, without a single grammatical error.
The spelling of the words was also all correct, and it was very relevant to the topic.
Her handwriting was also neat and beautiful.
The English teacher’s red pen was suspended on the test paper, unable to deduct points for a while.
This kind of composition would be given a perfect score in theory, but he felt that if he gave Zhou Yining a perfect score, he wouldn’t be able to save face.
A middle-aged man in his forties was at the age when he was full of paternalistic taste and cared about his face.
How could he allow students to disobey him?
So the English teacher directly wrote -1 on the test paper, as if deducting points for the paper’s appearance.
He coughed lightly and looked at Zhou Yining with a strong and calm look.
He saw that Zhou Yining was looking at him with a smile on her lips.
The English teacher’s face turned red with anger and continued to talk.
“Even if you know everything, you can’t have this attitude. Some parts of the composition didn’t stick to the theme, so I deducted one point. Have you been tutoring outside recently?”
The English teacher looked for a way out for himself and didn’t want to mention the bet he had just made with Zhou Yining.
“I didn’t have tutoring, teacher. Where didn’t my composition stick to the theme? Can you explain it to me?”
Zhou Yining asked directly.
She didn’t like the English teacher’s superior attitude, especially since he had just given her the label of cheating without understanding the truth.
If she didn’t really have the strength, she would probably be labeled as cheating for the rest of the year.
The English teacher originally wanted to turn the page, but when he heard Zhou Yining say this, he stood up angrily,
“Zhou Yining, I’m giving you a way out, won’t you take it? What? Do you have to force me to apologize to you?”
Zhou Yining looked at the English teacher coldly,
“Teacher, you were the one who first slandered me for cheating. If this matter isn’t made clear today, I’ll be labeled as cheating for the rest of the year, but I didn’t do it, so of course I have to make this matter clear.”
“You didn’t do it, so you didn’t do it, but do you have to argue with the teacher? Is this how your family educated you?”
Zhou Yining looked at the English teacher in impotent rage and only felt that the person in front of her was about the same as a clown.
“I’m just discussing the matter and don’t want to be wronged. I just wrote this test paper here at the podium.
Except for the composition, which was deducted one point, the rest were all correct. Teacher Cao was staring at me while I did it, so it couldn’t be that I cheated, right?”
As she said that, Zhou Yining ignored Teacher Cao and walked straight to her seat.
Teacher Cao had a gloomy face, looking like he wanted to get angry, but couldn’t find a reason.
He was holding a breath in his chest, and after a long time of ups and downs, he cursed, “What are you all looking at? Zhou Yining has finished two sets of test papers. Have you all finished them?
And you, Zhou Yining, your grades have improved, but that’s not a reason for you to argue with the teacher.”
The students who were watching the excitement heard this and quickly buried their heads in writing the test papers.
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