Chapter Seventy-Four: The Contest Begins
The National College Student English Competition can be said to be the most embarrassing national competition in society today, and the state has long been suppressing English. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoBut after all, the country has not officially canceled this competition, after all, it is still a competition led by the Ministry of Education, and various colleges and universities still have to participate.
There are prizes for the National College Student English Competition, and the prize is the latest universal language brainwave recognizer. It's hard to say what kind of thinking the state has in mind about the use of weapons that destroy the foundation of English education as a reward for English language competitions. But in Luo Tian's opinion, maybe it's the bad taste of a certain big guy.
After a night's rest in the hotel, Luo Tian and the others began the formal preparations for the English competition. Except for Luo Tian, the other three team members are all top students majoring in English in the Department of Foreign Languages of Binhai University, and they are the top three in English majors.
Luo Tian was not very familiar with his three teammates, and their names were only known after they came to Guangzhou. The boy's name was Luo Wenhao, and he was the third in the third year of the English major; One of the two girls is named Ye Xiaoman, and the other is Mei Ling, and they are the first and second in the third year of English majors, respectively.
In today's abnormal development of science and technology, ordinary low-end foreign language translation work is completely monopolized by general-purpose language brainwave recognizers. The only way out for English majors is to pursue professional training, and only high-end professional translation is still an area that cannot be replaced by machines and programs for the time being.
The English education system of the university has changed, and the choice of major completely determines the future of English majors. At the beginning of their junior year, they have to decide where they want to be employed. Business English translation or professional English literature translation, high-end simultaneous translation or professional English dubbing......
Therefore, the level of English majors today is definitely not comparable to that of college students 20 or even 10 years ago. The level of any graduate of an English major in a regular university will definitely be able to complete the doctoral student majoring in English before the great change.
It is no exaggeration to say that although the country has vigorously suppressed the status of English, it has cultivated a group of real high-end English talents. Although Binhai University is not a first-tier university in the country, doctoral students majoring in English are fully capable of serving as English lecturers in equivalent universities abroad.
Due to the development of this deformed English education, a group of high-end English talents have been created. Every year, the National English Competition for College Students attracts the attention of enterprises and universities from all over the world, and the top 10 in the competition will receive their olive branches.
Luo Tian didn't care about the results of the game, but Ye Xiaoman and they still cared very much. In recent years, the employment pressure of domestic English graduates has been very high, and most English graduates choose to study and then go abroad, trying to get a good job abroad.
Ye Xiaoman and they are no exception, and the National College Student English Competition is a very good platform to showcase. Once it can win the favor of foreign companies and universities, the future will not be a problem.
Early this morning, Ye Xiaoman and the others began their intense pre-game review preparations. Of course, Luo Tian is still so calm and unsociable. Luo Tian's participation occupies a special recommended place, which makes Ye Xiaoman and them a little unbalanced in their hearts. They had seen Luo Tian's English results before, but sometimes, the results were not so convincing.
Luo Tian didn't take Ye Xiaoman's doubts and contempt to heart, because he didn't take this game to heart. Participating in the expo is Luo Tian's real purpose, as for the English competition, Luo Tian thinks that he is just here to go through the motions, or to win another championship.
For a whole day, Ye Xiaoman and the others had been conducting intense pre-game review, while Luo Tian had read a novel on his mobile phone for a day. Ye Xiaoman and they have been thinking about tomorrow's competition, while Luo Tian has been thinking about the opening ceremony of the expo the day after tomorrow.
At six o'clock in the morning on July 14, Luo Tian and the others had been woken up by two leading teachers. Luo Tian has always been up for six days, and the ample sleep at night makes him full of energy. Although Ye Xiaoman and the others went to bed early last night, they were not so energetic when they got up in the morning, and the slight anxiety before the game made their rest last night not as good as they imagined.
The National Collegiate English Contest is very tight. There are two exams throughout the day, the first batch is from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and the second batch is from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Luo Tian's competition time is earlier, it is the first batch of competitions on the 14th, and the examination room is located in the No. 3 examination room on the first floor of the National College Student English Competition Center.
The maximum number of participants in each examination room of the National College English Competition is 30, and team members from the same university can compete in the same examination competition. Of course, the seats are scrambled. There are a total of four invigilators and one foreign volunteer in each test room, and five people are jointly responsible for maintaining order in the test room.
The hotel where Luo Tian stayed was relatively close to the competition center, and they had relatively plenty of time. Although the contest requires contestants to enter 30 minutes early, Luo Tian still has more than two hours to prepare. After enjoying a hearty breakfast at the hotel, Luo Tian and his family took the special car provided by the competition organizing committee and rushed directly to the competition center.
The National Collegiate English Competition Center is a five-storey gymnasium-style building, and it does take on the field work of some football events. Due to the national English competition for college students, a cordon has been set up around the competition center, which is usually open to the public, and non-competitors are prohibited from entering.
Due to the early hour, the examination room is still blocked. Luo Tian, who arrived at the competition center, was guided by volunteers to enter the lounge specially provided for the contestants to prepare for the competition. In the lounge, the other college teams that were going to participate in the first batch of competitions in the morning were almost ready, just waiting for the bell to ring for the entrance of the competition.
Time is lost minute by minute, and every second before the exam is an ordeal for the contestants. At 8:30, the pre-exam bell rings, and the contestants can start entering. Luo Tian and the others began to enter the school with the blessings of the two leading teachers.
Contestants can enter the admission process after the pre-test preparation bell rings. Candidates must provide their fifth-generation ID cards, admission tickets, and verify their personal fingerprints. After the identity verification is completed, it also needs to go through a comprehensive body scan to prevent the substitution of communication devices.
After entering the test room, candidates will be asked to sign a declaration of refusal to cheat. Fifteen minutes before the test, there will be a listening test in the test room. Five minutes before the test, the invigilator will hand out the exam papers. Candidates are not allowed to start answering questions until the exam bell rings.
"Jingle bell", a bell rings, and the 2038 National College Student English Competition officially begins!