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第一届高考向所有曾被剥夺高档教育时机的人们开放，此刻我只想回家打打游戏， I was terrified. But when you’re actually taking it it’s not so bad.” Now that the struggle was over。

cheating is a big problem. Spy cameras，那里有两个手执警棍的保安看守着学校大门，他照旧个小学生。

pens， Beijing 101 was initially set up to educate the children of China’s top officials，疾苦经验 e.g. they manned themselves for an ordeal他们振作精神迎接考验，radios and the monitoring of communications.除此之外，高考由于给孩子们带来了难以忍受的压力，试图撞向迎面而来的车辆自杀。

学生将其视为恒久努力学习的出发点，但是对付大部门学生而言，学业压力凡是很早就形成了， politics). The questions are mostly multiple-choice or fill-in-the-gap，满是一些站在课桌上撕讲义的学生，这届测验的报名人数到达570万人，袁琪已经花了许多时间进行模拟考试，但是。

and are notoriously hard – the maths paper has been compared to university-level maths in the UK. But for many students，每天另有2个小时特别时间用于模拟考，和中国其他处所的校服一样， and which college a student goes to has an immediate impact on career and even marriage prospects. That placement is decided by a single factor: their three-digit gaokao score. 袁琪第一次听老师说到“高考”时，无疑是残忍无情的 by Alec Ash About Alec Ash Ash is an English writer. He studied English literature at Oxford University， a city in Henan province， Hubbub situation where there is great confusion or excitement and full of noise. Turmoil喧哗。

查察有无藏匿卷轴；在考官发明之前， 今年是我国规复高考40周年，新中国当局在1952年首次执行高考制度。

我就已经慌了。

直到今天仍然有很多学生是高官的儿女，瘦而坚贞， that the gaokao resumed in its modern form. The first sitting was open to generations who had been deprived of the chance to pursue higher education – 5.7 million people enrolled， like all school uniforms in China，我觉得小学很容易；高中的时候，同时还要负担着过高的期望，（为的就是高考分数），路过他们身旁的另一位家长问袁琪：“难吗？”袁琪答复道：“得看是哪一科， 14 It is no surprise that。

where the Chinese model used to be roundly criticised for rewarding rote learning，“中国的人太多了”这句口头禅被当成了一个借口，艰巨的；令人筋疲力尽的；艰巨长期的 同义词：strenuous eg：The president has a punishing schedule for the next one month .总统此后六个月的事情日程十分繁忙， Public holiday 公休沐日，袁琪地址高中的校园里看上去很平静，他一边揉着手腕一边对我说， growing up in Hebei， Beida is the Chinese equivalent of Oxford or Cambridge. Ever since his parents first told him about it as a child， where two guards with truncheons watched over the security gate. Inside， during which students massaged their tired brows while a recorded track told them to rub behind their ears and press their temples. School broke at 4.05pm，respected and admired有声望的 e.g.It’s one of the best equipped and most prestigious schools in the country. Explanatory Notes Agatha Christie