考试前:昨天上午去北京,找同学住下,顺便吃他一下。下午让同学带我看考场。因为是周日,没有人上班。门锁了。8501考场不大,在人大附中南侧,咋一看,我以为是个饲料铺子。然后回去小睡一会,吃晚饭后6:30,开始自习。学习从6:30到10:30,(中国矿业大学的新自习教室听不错的。而且学习风气挺好。)睡觉从12:00点开始,手机,闹表都上了6:30的铃声。可是我睡醒后,以为天快亮了,看了下手表,天哪才3:00,继续睡觉,迷迷糊糊,醒了N次,还作了好多梦,包括梦见在考场听见监考老师训话。5:30时,躺在床上,就把Argument的模版又回忆了一下。6:30起床洗漱下楼吃早饭。7:00开吃,一碗豆浆,两包子。再吃块德夫,喝瓶红牛。7:20从语言学院坐车307到海淀黄庄。
考试中:刚进屋,发一张纸抄写誓词,给把钥匙锁东西,除两个证件,一张填写有地址的纸张,所有的东西都不让带进去(机械手表可带进去,电子的不行,手机更不行),然后训话,发稿纸,进去拍照,填进场时间(8:12)和签名,而后老师领着你找到座位,(这时候你会看到你的黑白照片在屏幕上,奇丑!)。坐定,戴好耳塞,先是叫你怎么用鼠标键盘什么的(谁还不会这个),其次是问卷调查(我象征性的答了几个简单的),再就是选择笔考地点(必须选两个不一样的,否则跳不过去),再就是正式考试Issue + Argument,最后是填死所学校,包括州,大学,专业。一些搞定就出来,填一下时间(9:51)和签名。
写作中:两个题目,第一个前几天写过,不过觉得当时就没写好,而且我觉得写一个生题比默写一个老题要快点,写得也更起劲点。于是我选择了后一个。原计划段落/时间/字数分别是这么安排的审题/2min开头/5min/80words,正文段一/12min/150words,正文段落二/12min/150words,结尾/5min/60words,正文段落三/9min/ 100words。没想到写得极快,写完还剩5min(奇迹!平时写一篇得100min,最后限制时间写的那十天也在50min,没想到今天写得巨快,分析估计是没有坏太多时间犹豫遣词造句,而是一气呵成,当然写得语言可能局部那么生动了)。写完后小憩一下,进入Argument,读完题就有底了,因为我最后花了整整四天时间对所有242道题认真思考过的,所以一读完即有点印象,而且本题一看就是有几个倍儿显眼的地方,survery,75 percent,profits。有点遗憾,只写了前两个错误,profit没有时间写了,因为只剩下3分钟了,我觉前两个错写得挺详细的,字数肯定上450了,就没写,把时间用来检查了.出来后总觉得没来得及写第三个错视点遗憾。但是没有办法了,因为平时练习时就已经想到过了,来不及写三个错误。感觉就有点像1994年巴乔在美国玫瑰碗体育场踢飞的那个点球一样。足球是一门缺陷的艺术,而对于每个考生来说,考G,或多或少,也会有些不尽人意的地方。即便是我写完了第三个错误,我也会因为issue没有在语言上斟酌而又另一番懊恼的,所以,我们应该保持平衡的心态,拿得起,放得下。
考试后:辛苦了一个寒假(连年都没回家过),当然就是放纵一下自己。和在北京读研的同学一共六个人一起到饭店吃了顿好的,叙了叙旧,发现他们几个生活好快活呀,都有了家属,成天没什么重要事情似的,还说天天忙着打牌,下载电影。我听了后好是不爽。
我的作文准备时间是够长的了。为了两个小时,不知准备了几百个两小时。从开始背诵新概念4,到写issue提纲,找Argument的逻辑错误,到练习写四五十篇,等等。言而总之,就像我的座右铭一样: There can be miracles when you believe. Though hope is frail, it‘s hard to kill. Who knows what miracles you can acheive. When you believe somhow you will. You will when you believe!年轻的汗水不会白流!年轻的汗水不会白流!
最后,特别感谢李娜同学对我的帮助和鼓励,感谢其他帮我修改文章的同学,祝所有的同路人考试顺利。
Issue:
(1) 210 "Most people choose a career on the basis of such pragmatic considerati ons as the needs of the economy, the relative ease of finding a job, and the salary they can expect to make. Hardly anyone is free to choose a career based on his or her natural talents or interest in a particular kind of work."
(2) 50. "In order to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level, all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach."
Argument 40.The following appeared in a memorandum from the president of Excello Food Markets. "In 90 towns where Excello has food markets, natural-food stores specializing in organic food products—products containing no chemical preservatives and made with foods grown without pesticides—have opened nearby as competitors. Surveys of our own customers reveal a growing concern about foods grown using pesticides or preserved with chemicals. Recently our market in Sun City participated in a local food tasting fair, and 75 percent of the fair goers who visited the Excello booth requested free samples of organic fruit. Such evidence indicates that to increase our profits, we should begin to stock a full line of organic food products in all our markets."