Riding the wind of rebirth

"But it doesn't affect our enjoyment of the movie." Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "Just pay attention to identifying the excessive things in it. The rest is like overseas literary classics. To be recognized by everyone, you have to sing the truth, goodness and beauty forever and criticize the fake, evil and ugly."

"Have you noticed?" Xu Gang said, "The elbow's English seems to be pretty good."

"Just now I found out that Elbow's English is pretty good. Top gun is the spoken language of ace fighter pilots. This teacher never taught it. We don't know." Wu Lingshuang also nodded.

"That's right, the movie just now is in English. Fortunately, there are subtitles." Li Yijia said: "After watching this kind of original soundtrack movie, I realized how bad my English is. What I learned in middle school before was all lies."

"Oh, I hate the thought of taking a grade test."

"Fortunately, I can take the test every year." Qi Xinyan said with concern, "At least there are four chances."

"Where are there four chances?" Zhou Zhi shook his head, "One or two at most, and the remaining two are reserved for CET-[-], and the sooner you take the exam, the better, because you haven't forgotten the grammar, you just need to make up your vocabulary. I suggest that you should pass CET-[-] for the first time. It's better to hit CET-[-] for the remaining ones."

"Suggest us?" Zhang Qianyi grasped the stalk: "Are you saying that you don't need to take the test?"

"I really don't need it, because I have already passed PETS5."

"What...what the hell?"

"PETS is the National English Proficiency Test, with a maximum of five levels. This is a level test set up by the state for people who are sent to study abroad by the government. Level three is equivalent to level four in a university, and I have already passed level five."

"Hey! You just entered college?!" Zhang Qianyi said.

"Anyone can apply for this test." Zhou Zhi said, "Actually, there are many similar English tests, such as IELTS, TOEFL, and GRE."

It will not be until after [-] that the state will require fresh graduates to take the college English test, and PETS will no longer be allowed.

However, PETS is still an exam that anyone, including fresh graduates, can apply for, and the results can also be used to replace the results of the college English test.

Although Fu Xia felt that it was superfluous for Zhou Zhi to take an English test, but since graduation had set a hard threshold, Mrs. Gu still asked Zhou Zhi to get a certificate, so that her energy would not be too involved in college.

In fact, Mr. Gu's idea is a bit superfluous, as long as the vocabulary of English has accumulated to a certain level, it will become a "quasi-native language", which is the kind that you can't forget even if you don't use it for decades, and the difficulty of those proficiency test questions is relatively low now, so for Zhou Zhi, what Fu Xia said is actually correct, there is no difficulty, and you can take the test at any time.

And for young writers whose books are translated into English by Cambridge Press, even if Zhou Zhi wants to study in Cambridge, he doesn’t even need to pass IELTS, TOEFL, or GRE to get his scores. With a little work, he can just ask the liberal arts department to send him an invitation letter.

But in order to make the old man happy without any cost, and to live up to the old man's arrangement, Zhou Zhi still took the exam in his third year of high school.

"I now even suspect that Yanjing is Jiachuan, and Jiachuan is Yanjing..." Zhang Qianyi was stunned: "Learning requires resources. I just want to ask you, does Jiachuan have such a good English learning environment and resources?"

"It's okay." Zhou Zhi also had a good reason: "If you watch a movie like "Top Gun", none of you have watched it, but I have already watched it."

"That's right, you should have seen a lot of elbows, right?" Qi Xinyan remembered: "Otherwise you wouldn't be able to just mention so many movies of Brother Cruise just now."

"Actually, watching movies to learn English is a shortcut." Zhou Zhi said, "I can pass the exam because of a TV series. If you like it, I can give it to you. It is definitely a magical tool for practicing listening and speaking."

"What drama is it?"

"You've all read Growing Pains, right?"

"Hey, you must, definitely, have seen it all!"

"Growing Troubles" tells the story of a family living in Long Island, a suburb of New York, USA. The father, Jason Seaver, is a psychiatrist, and the mother, Maggie Seaver, is a reporter. They have three children: Mike, Carol and Ben.At the beginning of the story, Maggie started working for the agency, while Jason opened his psychological clinic at home, and interesting stories happened one after another.

This drama can be called the originator of soap operas that Chinese people know. Later, many domestic sitcoms in China, such as "Family with Children", were actually inspired by it.

The play was introduced by Shanghai TV Station, dubbed by the Translation Department of Shanghai TV Station, and dubbed by the Film and Television Department of Shanghai People's Art Theater.In the play, Dr. Xifo adopts an equal and heuristic education method for his children, which has also inspired countless Chinese parents.

Of course, the ones who like the show the most are the students of Zhou Zhi’s age in this life. They all think about it——If my mother is like this, how free I will be at home!

"Can you learn English in this play?"

"Well, I have the original soundtrack of this show." Zhou Zhi said, "My cousin brought me the original soundtrack with traditional subtitles from Hong Kong Island."

"Wow! Then when will I have to see it!"

"Just wait until I make the arrangements." Zhou Zhi recalled the humble appearance of the video studio just now, and had some new ideas: "But should we start self-study? The day after tomorrow, the formal class will start."

"Cut! Don't worry about this!"

Having said that, Zhou Zhi disappeared early the next morning after breakfast.

Because I am going to start my "work trip" today, and I am officially on stage for the first time, I am still a little nervous.

Although Sister Fang was only allowed to sing three songs, Zhou Zhi still prepared six songs that he was good at. The three Cantonese songs included Chen Baiqiang's "Misty Rain and Misty Misty", Jacky Cheung's "It's Always Rainy Days", and an old song that was sung by Lin Zixiang in [-], which made Zhou Zhi soaring.

The three songs have their own characteristics and difficulties, and most people can't sing well, Zhou Zhi thinks it's suitable for him to support himself.

For English songs, Zhou Zhi chose Bertie Higgins' movie title song "Casablanca", Whammer Band's "careless whisper", and Joan Jett's "I Hate Myself For Loving You".

They also have their own difficulties, among which the first two are lyrical, and the last one is explosive.

The best song to sing is "careless whisper", and the hardest is the heavy metal rock "I Hate Myself For Loving You" for female vocals. When LD transcribes the track, it has to lower the key to make it suitable for male vocals.

One way is all the way, with the digital sound track, Zhou Zhi can opportunistically turn some well-known female songs into suitable for male singing by changing the tune of the soundtrack.

It's like listening to Priscilla Chan's "Thousand Thousand Que Songs" and suddenly hearing the version sung by Leslie Cheung, it will give the audience a "strangeness in familiarity", a brand new experience.

For Zhou Zhi who often engages in creation, he knows that this is a creative method that all those who do artistic creation can understand, and it can attract people's fixed routine.

"I Hate Myself For Loving You" is an attempt. (end of this chapter)