3. Pop Quiz

3 Pop Quiz "Time for a pop quiz!" announced Miss Banks. Ugh. I hate pop quizzes. Do they have pop quizzes at your school? If they don't, you're lucky. A pop quiz is when your teacher gives you a test for no reason, and with no warning. You can't study for it. You don't know what's going to be on it.

“突击测验时间到了！”班克斯小姐宣布。 啊。我讨厌突击测验。你们学校有突击测验吗？ 如果他们没有，你很幸运。 突击测验是指你的老师在没有任何理由、没有任何警告的情况下给你一个测试。 你不能为了它而学习。你不知道上面会有什么。

The teacher can ask you anything. Miss Banks told us to take out a pencil as she passed around a sheet of paper to each of us. "This will be easy," she told us. "The instructions are simple. There are ten questions. Read the quiz all the way through before answering the first question. Go!" I looked at the sheet. The first question said... 1. What's your name? Write it at the top of this sheet. I wrote my name at the top of the sheet and moved on to... 2. Add up these numbers: 8+4+10+15 +99=? It was too hard to do the math in my head. "Can we use scrap paper?" I asked Miss Banks. "If you feel you need to," she replied. I took out a piece of scrap paper and

老师可以问你任何问题。 班克斯小姐叫我们拿出一支铅笔，她给我们每人发了一张纸。 “这很容易，”她告诉我们。 “说明很简单。 有十个问题。在回答第一个问题之前，把测试从头到尾看一遍。 去吧!”我看了看床单。 第一个问题说…… 1. 你叫什么名字？把它写在这张纸的顶部。 我把我的名字写在纸的顶部，然后继续…… 2. 把这些数字加起来：8+4+10+15 +99=？ 心算太难了。 “我们能用废纸吗？”我问班克斯小姐。 “如果你觉得有必要的话，”她回答。 我拿出一张废纸，然后

started writing the numbers down. Then I added them up. It came to 136. I wrote that down. I looked around. Everybody was working on the math problem. Well, everybody except Andrea. She was just sitting there with her hands folded, like she was finished already. How could she be done so quickly? I better work faster. I moved on to... 3. Circle every T on this page. I circled every T on the page. That was easy. I moved on to number four... 4. What time is it when the big hand is on four and the little hand is on eleven? I drew a clock on my scrap paper and put in the hands. It was twenty minutes after eleven. I wrote that down and peeked around to see how everybody else was doing. Emily and Alexia were sitting there with their hands folded. Man, girls work fast! I moved on to... 5. Silently recite the first six words of the

开始把数字写下来。 然后我把它们加起来。最后是136。 我写下来了。我环顾四周。 每个人都在做那道数学题。 嗯，除了安德里亚。 她只是双手合十坐在那里，好像已经吃完了一样。 她怎么能这么快就做完呢？ 我最好快点干。我转到了…… 3. 圈出这一页上的每个T。 我圈出了纸上的每个T。 这很简单。我接着讲第四个…… 4. 大手在4上，小手在11上是几点？ 我在废纸上画了一个钟，然后把指针放进去。 现在是十一点二十分。 我把它写了下来，并偷看了一下其他人的情况。 爱米丽和亚历克西娅双手交叉坐在那里。 伙计，女孩子做事真快！我转到了…… 5. 默念开头的六个字

Gettysburg Address. Oh, I knew that one: "Four score and seven years ago." I moved on to... 6. Get up, walk around your desk in a circle, and then sit down. That's a weird thing to ask on a pop quiz. But what do I know? Maybe things are different in fourth grade. I got up, walked around my desk, and sat down. So did Ryan, Michael, and Neil. I moved on to... 7. Write your name backward. I wrote my name backward. Then I moved on to... 8. Stand up and sing a line from "Old MacDonald Had a Farm." I got up and sang, "Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O." Michael got up and sang, "Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O." I looked around. Ryan and Neil were sitting there with their hands folded. How come they didn't get up and sing? Maybe

葛底斯堡演说。哦，我知道那句：“87年前。” 我转到了……6. 站起来，绕着桌子走一圈，然后坐下。 在突击测验中问这个问题很奇怪。 但我知道什么？也许四年级的情况有所不同。 我站起来，绕着桌子走了一圈，然后坐了下来。 瑞安、迈克尔和尼尔也是如此。 我转到了……7. 把你的名字倒着写。 我把我的名字写反了。然后我转向…… 8. 站起来，唱一段“老麦克唐纳有个农场”。 我站起来唱：“老麦克唐纳有个农场，e -I- e - o。” 迈克尔站起来唱道：“老麦克唐纳有个农场，E-I-E-I-O。” 我环顾四周。赖安和尼尔双手交叉坐在那里。 他们为什么不起来唱歌呢？ 也许

they did it and I didn't notice. I moved on to... 9. Cluck like a chicken while standing on one foot. "Bok! Bok! Bok!" I said, standing on one foot. I looked around. Nobody else was standing on one foot. Nobody else was clucking. "Hey, you guys! Why aren't you doing

他们这么做了，我却没注意到。 我转到了……9. 单脚站立时像鸡一样咯咯叫。 “博克!博克!博克!”我说，用一只脚站着。 我环顾四周。没有其他人单脚站立。 没有人在咯咯笑。“嘿，伙计们！你为什么不做

it?" I asked. They didn't answer. Then I looked at the last question on the bottom of the page... 10. Do not answer any of the questions or complete any of the tasks on this pop quiz. Put down your pencil and sit with your hands folded. Don't say anything to anybody. WHAT?! I looked at Andrea. She was sitting there with her hands folded and a big smile on her face. Ryan had his hands folded. Alexia had her hands folded. Michael had his hands folded. Emily had her hands folded. Neil had his hands folded. Everybody except me was sitting there with their hands folded. Then they all started cracking up, even Miss Banks. "Hey, what's going on?" I asked. "It was a fake pop quiz, dumbhead!" Andrea said. "Miss Banks told us to read

吗?”我问。他们没有回答。 然后我看了看这一页底部的最后一个问题…… 10. 不要回答任何问题，也不要完成任何任务。 放下你的铅笔，双手合十坐着。 不要告诉任何人。 什么? !我看着安德里亚。 她坐在那里，双手合十，脸上挂着灿烂的笑容。 赖安双手交叉。 亚历克西娅双手交叉。 迈克尔双手合十。 艾米丽双手交叉。 尼尔双手交叉。 除了我以外，所有人都双手合十地坐在那里。 然后他们都开始大笑，连班克斯小姐也不例外。 “嘿，发生什么事了？”我问。 “这是个假的突击测验，笨蛋！”安德里亚说。 “班克斯小姐叫我们读书