629: To Advance to the Top 20 (3 Updates)

The National College English Contest known to Xia Xiaolan, the preliminary round is held in April every year.

Both the preliminary round and the semi-finals are held locally at the university.

The competition that Xia Xiaolan is participating in now does not hesitate to work hard and invite the finalists from all over the country to the capital, which shows the importance of the Ministry of Education.

"It shows that you all have a mission on your shoulders. The first competition has a great influence and can be held every year in the future."

Xia Xiaolan said that "English" was officially added to the college entrance examination last year, regardless of the arts and sciences.

The leading teacher of the foreign language department warned everyone about the competitors of the Beijing Foreign Languages ​​Institute. This school is definitely not as good as Huaqing and Beijing University in terms of comprehensive strength. In terms of language, it is the top of the country.

Professionals, hang up a group of non-professionals, I don't know what's going on, only 3 foreign language colleges entered the finals.

"Because the English majors of the Foreign Language Institute did not sign up, this is also Mr. Xu's opinion."

Teacher Lin's tone was light, and she respected Xu Lao very much.

Now the Beijing Foreign Languages ​​Institute has a total of 28 languages, and English is only one of them. Apart from English, it means that the three finalists who entered the finals all learned other languages. They are very good and powerful, and they deserve to be a professional big brother.

The expressions of the two foreign language students at Huaqing University changed.

Xia Xiaolan didn't think it was a big deal. It was only a language university. What would other universities do if their English majors came to participate in the competition?

It is also the first competition, and I have no experience yet.

In the future, the National College English Contest will be divided into four categories: a, b, c, and d. Category a is for postgraduates, category b is for undergraduate and junior college students majoring in English, category c is for undergraduate and junior college students who are not majoring in English, and category d is for undergraduate and junior college students. It is the participation of college students in sports and medicine.

It should be professional and professional to fight, and amateur and amateur to play.

Now, various systems have not been perfected. In 1981, the TOEFL test was available, but in 1985, the CET-4 and CET-6 tests that tortured college students for many years have not yet appeared!

The final was held at the Beijing Foreign Languages ​​Institute. The Foreign Languages ​​College is located on the West Third Ring Road, and the distance from the Beijing Normal University is no more than 3 kilometers. Xia Xiaolan couldn't help but ask Teacher Lin:

"Do you know that there are students from Beijing Normal University who entered the finals this year?"

Teacher Lin thought about it and was not sure:

"There seems to be one... Sigh, Mr. He, is there one student from the Beijing Normal University who entered the finals?"

Teacher He is the professor who opened a small stove for Xia Xiaolan and the others.

He slowly took out a piece of paper from his pocket and shook it to see, "There is one, why did you suddenly ask about the Beijing Normal University?"

This kind of opponent, Professor He does not pay attention to it.

There is only one, and it will never be Xia Ziyu and Wang Jianhua. Xia Xiaolan remembers that neither of them is particularly good in English. The two took the college entrance examination in 1983, when their English scores were not fully included in the total score.

"It's nothing, I have a fellow at the Beijing Normal University."

Xia Xiaolan smiled shyly at Professor He, Ji Jiangyuan was closing his eyes and resting, but his mind was spinning at a high speed. Xia Xiaolan asked the Beijing Normal University, it should be the kid who came to Huaqing last time, the one named Wang Jianhua, who was concerned about her annoying future brother-in-law.

Wang Jianhua belonged to Deputy Director Wang of the Department of Higher Education, and Director Wang had been to Huaqing University before.

The reputation of the Wang family is not very good. Many people in Beijing know about the last cram school.

He wanted to talk to Xia Xiaolan, things happened one after another, Xia Xiaolan really "draw a line" with him now, and Ji Jiangyuan couldn't say it if he wanted to.

If it was that Wang Jianhua, it would be really annoying.

Ji Jiangyuan also didn't understand that Xia Xiaolan and Zhou Cheng were targets, and Wang Jianhua dared to come to the door and chatter, but Instructor Zhou didn't seem to be bullying. Ji Jiangyuan doesn't like to use "privilege" and "class" to classify people into three, six, nine, and so on, but some people like it, and he has to follow the local customs. According to the national conditions of China, the Wang family is inferior to the Zhou family, and Ji Jiangyuan himself felt deeply.

Ji Jiangyuan wanted to talk, but realized that now in the eyes of classmate Xia Xiaolan, he might be as annoying as Wang Jianhua, so he continued to close his eyes and pretend to be asleep.

Ask Xia Xiaolan to say that Ji Jiangyuan is thinking too much.

What she really hates is Ji Ya. Ji Jiangyuan is implicated, so she must be ranked behind Wang Jianhua.

Wang Jianhua will be ranked after Xia Ziyu again, who is the "murderer" and who cannot be forgiven. The school bus swayed and arrived at the Beijing Foreign Languages ​​Institute before eight in the morning.

Xia Xiaolan had breakfast with Teacher Lin and the others.

These are not paid by individuals, all of which are borne by the school. Think about it too, if you want students from other places to come to the capital to participate in the finals, you have to pay out of your own pocket, buy a bus ticket, you have to scare off a bunch of people, and you have to eat and live when you go out, and the average student can't afford it!

"9:00-10:30 is the written test, and the oral test is after the written test. How to test the oral test, I usually practice it repeatedly, and you can play according to the normal level."

The oral exam has been practiced for a long time.

It's not complicated. It's divided into three parts. The first is the self-report in English, which is to introduce yourself in English and explain why you like English. The time is limited to 3 minutes.

The second is story retelling. First listen to a short audio text. After listening, give 1 minute of time to organize language and organize thinking, and then start to retell the story in your own way. The time should be controlled within 5 minutes.

The third is to draw a topic

, expounding her own ideas around this topic, just like Xia Xiaolan picked environmental protection in the last re-examination, this kind of topic appears very frequently, and this time is also 5 minutes.

The oral part of a student takes about 15 minutes, and 200 students across the country take 3,000 minutes, which is 50 hours?

Obviously, the Ministry of Education had already prepared, the written test ended at 10:30, and the papers were marked immediately after the papers were collected.

In the end, only 20 contestants were able to reach the speaking part.

The 180 contestants who were eliminated were all "third prizes" in this English competition.

The remaining 20 contestants will be filmed by the TV station. Xia Xiaolan thinks it is quite a gimmick, but the competition process is cruel.

She felt that the 180 "third prizes" who were eliminated had basically zero chance of going abroad as an exchange student.

What's the matter, you have to break into the entrance examination stage.

Xia Xiaolan stretched her fingers. She didn't know how difficult the written test questions were. When she was in college, she took the CET-4 test. Later, she learned English by herself and used it at work, and she never took the IELTS test. And TOEFL, there is no way to know your own level.

A full score in the college entrance examination does not count, which is too easy for Xia Xiaolan.