20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3014 Shang Ling's Thoughts

Zhao Changan lifted the curtain of the back door again. There was a small light on inside, and there was a sofa, a coffee table, a large color TV, and a refrigerator. The air conditioner that was originally installed in the small room in the front was moved here.

With Zhong Yuanqiang opening this barbecue stall, his economic conditions are obviously improving rapidly.

Zhao Changan walked into the living room and heard Shang Ling reading an English text in a low voice. He was a little surprised to hear that it was high school English.

Her bedroom door was not closed, the light was on, and the sound of someone reading an English book came from inside.

Zhao Changan walked over almost silently and saw that Shang Ling had changed into winter pajamas and must have just taken a shower. She had long black hair and was reading an English book.

The smell of shampoo floated in the air, and on the bed were the dirty underwear that had been taken off and the new bra that would be worn tomorrow.

It was made of ordinary pure cotton fabric, small in size, which showed that she was on the thin side in terms of figure and development.

Shang Ling read with great concentration, but her reading was not fluent and she stumbled, especially her pronunciation, which was almost unlistenable and very unstandard.

Although the college entrance examination, college English test, and CET-4 and CET-6 do not place too much emphasis on listening, accurate pronunciation can save the rote memorization of most English words and reduce a lot of English burden.

This is where many students from junior high schools in rural towns suffer a disadvantage. They can basically be on par with students graduating from junior high schools in the city in science, but they are often at a disadvantage in English and Chinese.

The Chinese language level can be gradually leveled out during the three years of high school, but it is impossible for high school English teachers to repeat the teaching based on phonetic symbols. Moreover, students have already formed inertia in English reading during the three years of junior high school, and it is often difficult to change.

Shang Ling applied for science in her second year of high school because her mother taught her, "Children from poor families have no power or influence. Even if you graduate from college, I can't find you a job. You should learn a skill and make a living by your own ability. You can find a job without asking for help."

In fact, she was thoughtful and better at liberal arts than science in her first year of high school, but she was just good at it and not outstanding among the students. In addition, the teachers could see her family conditions and felt that even if she took the exam for a science college, it would be more beneficial to her development than taking the exam for a liberal arts undergraduate degree, so they didn't say anything about her choice.

She applied for the tea major in the forestry department of Shancheng Agricultural College, which is the college's flagship major. Although the country encourages high school students to apply for normal and agricultural and forestry schools, and the admission score is lowered by ten to twenty points, the minimum admission score for the tea major at Shancheng Agricultural College is close to the undergraduate line.

Shang Ling was admitted just on the edge of the admission line, and after graduation it was not too difficult for her to find a job as a technician in some tea companies.

However, judging from her current appearance, she obviously wants to retake the college entrance examination in July next year.

Zhao Changan quietly left the door and the small living room, and stood by the curtain and called out in a moderately loud voice, "Shang Ling, why are you still not asleep and reading so late?"

"Hey, brother, you're here, wait a moment."

Shang Ling's surprised and somewhat flustered voice, as well as the sound of a stool, came from inside.

Zhao Changan sat down on the sofa in the small living room and saw Shang Ling walking out with disheveled hair. She was biting a rubber band in her mouth, holding her long hair with both hands and was smoothing it down and tying it up.

"No need to pour water. I'm going back to sleep too. I just stopped by to see why you're still awake. I heard you reading English. It seems to be a high school text?"

Zhao Changan patted the sofa beside him and said to Shang Ling, "Come and sit down."

Shang Ling's pretty face blushed slightly, and she walked over to Zhao Changan and sat down next to him: "It's a senior high school English text. I'm not good at English, so I want to learn more."

"You're right to think so, but the English exams in college are mainly based on CET-4 and CET-6, right? Or does your school require that you must pass CET-3 first?"

“No such request.”

Shang Ling thought for a moment and said to Zhao Changan, "Brother, I told you not to laugh at me." "You want to take the college entrance examination again next year?"

Since there is no requirement to pass the English Level 3 exam first, there can only be one explanation for why Shang Ling was studying high school English so hard late at night.

Shang Ling looked at Zhao Changan in surprise: "Brother, how did you know?"

"Want to change your major or school?"

Shang Ling said: "I want to change them all."

"Do your parents know?"

"Yes, I was against it at first but I agreed later. I plan to study at home."

"Have you completed the withdrawal procedures?"

"No, my dad said he would do it after school starts, because he was afraid that the school wouldn't refund my money if I did."

Zhao Changan nodded. He knew how stubborn Zhong Yuanqiang was. He once crashed head-on into the car of the principal of the computer school, causing a bloody head injury and denting the car body. Not only did the depressed principal have to pay for the repair of the car out of his own pocket, but he also had to let Zhong Lianwei enroll in school for free.

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This was also the reason why Zhong Yuanqiang and Zhong Lianwei had a quarrel last time, and why Zhong Yuanqiang cursed him loudly, saying that he was really unlucky in the past and had created an ungrateful person.

"The efficiency of self-study varies from person to person. I think you'd better follow the class. If you want, you can go to school tomorrow. With your grades, if you go back to high school to repeat, there will be no problem with the school."

"No, it's better to learn on your own."

Shang Ling insisted: "I can review in a targeted manner according to my actual situation and follow the teacher's progress in class."

"Because I can help watch the door and I don't want to listen to all the gossip?"

Shang Ling nodded. Her pretty face had the kind of cold, pale skin that was thin and frail. Just looking at her made men feel pity for her and want to hold her in their arms and play with her.

Zhao Changan naturally took Shang Ling's small hand, which was cool, slender and smooth, and played with it in his big hand: "Where do you want to apply to, and what major do you want to study?"

"I want to be far away from the mountain city, preferably in Mingzhu. I want to study economics. I don't know the details, so I haven't decided yet."

"It's a bit of a disadvantage to take the economics exam with a science major."

Zhao Changan doesn't mean that science majors cannot take economics majors. Many more advanced economics careers still require advanced mathematics.

Rather, it means that she has learned physics and chemistry in vain. Moreover, although many economics courses require mathematical knowledge, with Shang Ling's grades, even if she studies harder now, she will probably only be admitted to an ordinary and weak major in a first-class university.

Graduates of such schools and majors, unless they continue their studies and take postgraduate entrance exams after graduation, and are admitted to advantageous majors at good universities, will end up doing low-level technical work after graduation and will not need such advanced knowledge.

“I want to switch to liberal arts.”

Shang Ling said firmly: "My scores in physics and chemistry were very low, but my math and Chinese scores were passable, and my English was just passable. I secretly studied history and politics at school, and during the winter vacation I tried to do this year's history and politics test papers, and my scores were higher than my original scores in physics and chemistry."