2021秋九年级英语上册 Module 4 Home alone拓展阅读二（新版）外研版.doc

1、（二）One day in the eighth grade, I was taking a Math TestNow for a middle school student, there was nothing basic at all about it. So I had studied for about two hours the night before. After reviewing it for some time, I had started to understand it, so then I closed the book and went to bed. Howeve

2、r, it was not until midnight that I fell asleep.The next day, when I got the test, it might as well have been written in Serbian (which I dont know how to read)I tried my best to work out the hard problems, but the numbers I came up with were strange. I sat back on my chair and looked for any possib

3、le answers, but I could not remember anything or think correctly. I started thinking about my dad coming home from work to find that I failed the test.“How could you have failed the test? I am certain that nobody else in the whole class got as bad a grade as you did！” Naturally I didnt want that to

4、happen. My dad was also really busy at work at that time, so I was afraid that this might make him mad. When feeling hopeless, I noticed that my table partner was writing fast on his test. I was attracted to look over at his test, but then the many bad results I had heard about cheating (作弊) came in

5、to my mind. I reasoned that if I started cheating now, it would be hard to give up that habit during high school. In the end, I decided not to copy his answers, and got a B on that test. Even though my dad gave me a hard time about it, it would have been a lot worse if he found out that I had given in and cheated.