College entrance examination time
Text/Qin Xubo
It's another year of college entrance examinations. Every year on the day of the college entrance examination is a highlight of life struggle, but also an important node of people's lives, either a beautiful start, or a lone walk, everything must be known by the college entrance examination. The cruel reality is so skinny, the law of the jungle is so cold as iron, just the so-called mountain is a man-made peak, what is the peak if you don't climb it.
In the era when the college entrance examination system was not restored, after graduating from junior high and high school students, most of the students in the city became educated youth in the countryside, working in the countryside, expecting to recruit workers into factories, students with families in the countryside returned to the village to farm, participated in the labor of production teams, called returning youth, began to learn the art of farming, young people achieved their ideals and went to higher education with very few opportunities, as for becoming soldiers and being recommended to go to university, there were not many such opportunities, and according to the rules of society, they could only be left to children with bright family backgrounds. As for the children of ordinary people, if they want to walk out of a decent road to college success, it is only in a dream that rural young people want to get out of the situation of facing the loess with their backs to the sky, then it is better like picking stars from the sky.
At that time, the time of life made people sweat a little. At that time, some of our rural high school students were very ideal and naïve, and after graduating, some wanted to join the army, some wanted to enter the social team enterprise, some wanted to enter the county factory and guest house, some wanted to learn Chinese medicine acupuncture and become a langzhong, and some wanted to write poetry and write as a writer. In rural middle schools, half of them are students and half farmers, and when they go to school, they want to have a good future and a good way out, and at the same time they have to participate in the production team, and they have to think of earning more food rations for their families. In this way, he rushed on the road between the production team and the school, returning home to become a farmer, entering the school as a student, and walking the colorful road of studying and surviving in the midst of the difficult life. If there is desire, there is struggle, and if there is ideal, there is struggle. In the social context of having to be "politically suspended", there were suddenly two explosive things that had an explosive impact on our youth, one was the suffering of Chen Jingrun's heroic mathematician recorded in the Xinhua News Agency news report "Goldbach Conjecture" in early October 1977, although we did not understand the theory of prime number deduction, we were moved by Chen Jingrun's spirit, we could not be mathematicians, but we were blown by the wind blowing within the walls of the scientific community. Another shocking event was in the same month of that year, the news reported that the country wanted to restore the college entrance examination system and select college students through the examination, which was a thousand waves in Pinghu, our campus teachers and students suddenly set off a big competition for classes, make-up classes, tests, and exams, the previous situation of opening the book every exam was swept away, even individual young teachers also reviewed with us, preparing to participate in the college entrance examination, the classroom became a battlefield, the campus was full of heat for learning to prepare for the exam, birds flying around outside the window, chirping, It seems that they are all cheering these students on.
These two major events have set off waves in the field of education, making us feel that there will be major events in society, we wonder whether the future of life will have a golden boulevard, everyone's hearts are full of hope for a better future, students are wrapped in a pressure atmosphere, exams, universities, whether the road ahead is bright or embarrassing, no one can predict. For a time, learning mathematics, physics and chemistry well and walking all over the world was not afraid of the trend of thought, and the heat wave surged in the campus, and the students looked forward to the hot road ahead, and everyone was eager to try. On November 21, 1977, the national college entrance examination was held as scheduled, and July 7, 8 and 9 of each year were college entrance examination days (probably changed to June 7 and 8 in 2003), and the examination time was three days. At that time, because there were too few review materials other than textbooks, young people returned to their hometowns and rural areas to make up for classes, and everyone could have a review material, so they stayed up all night, sometimes they had to stay up late with kerosene lamps, calculate problems, memorize poems and compositions, and often read at night to get their heads off a large chunk. I am a candidate who decided to apply for a foreign language college, I remember watching black and white TV in my father's unit during the summer vacation, Mr. Chen Lin's English lecture class at Beijing Foreign Chinese College, I benefited a lot, the knowledge taught by the middle school English teacher at that time was far from enough for the needs of the college entrance examination, I had to get English books or English magazines from different channels such as universities, troops, scientific research units, etc., carry out a large number of in-depth self-study, ride a bicycle to travel 60 miles back and forth to the boiler room of Huxian Huian Hospital to study in Ma Xiaohong, he knows Japanese, French, German, Chinese At that time, he was a Beijing educated youth in labor reform, and the English teaching program on the radio also helped me a lot. Students who resume classes in school have better review conditions for correcting mistakes and correcting mistakes, I remember that when I was studying in Huxian No. 3 Middle School, the difficulty of the English class of the students was that they could not remember the words, because I had a solid foundation in phonetic grammar and learning skills, and the vocabulary was enough to cope with the college entrance examination, so I was arranged by the school to introduce to the whole school how to learn English well and the skills of remembering English words. At that time, although the study conditions were humble and the proportion of college entrance examinations admitted was very low, about 100 candidates were admitted to three, but the "new three worlds", that is, college students in 1977, 1978, and 1979, seized the opportunity in this way, relied on their own hard work, and entered the university gate.
Time flies, and more than 40 years after the college entrance examination system was restored, generations of young people have crossed the college entrance examination and enjoyed the gift of time. As a selective exam, the current high exam questions have a large difficulty coefficient, the test questions are set up with traps layer by layer, candidates always have to choose the road to "becoming a Buddha" through "jumping pit", such an exam is more difficult to learn, but the more difficult the more forward, this is the indispensable motto of life struggle. Facing the watershed of life, every student has to exert all their strength, climb and climb the peak, so as to change their destiny. There is no savior in the world, and life depends on oneself. The ancients said, learn and excel, don't you?
I remember the writer Liu Qing said, "Although the road of life is long, there are often only a few steps at the critical point, especially when people are young." "That's a tribute to time, twists and turns, but always moving forward.
About the author:
Qin Xubo, pen name Wei Feng, is a member of the Xianyang City Writers Association in Shaanxi Province and the executive editor of "Qin Feng".
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