Trial Exam Hall.
Exam Day!
The invigilator waved a metal detector at the classroom entrance, scanning the students one by one from head to toe.
Zhao Yiyi's face was tense as she stood at the entrance and handed over her ID card and Admission Ticket. She then stretched out her arms to be scanned.
"Beep beep!" The metal detector sounded.
Zhao Yiyi hurriedly tugged out the metal zipper on her trouser pocket.
The invigilator nodded, returned her documents, and pointed toward a seat by the window.
Zhao Yiyi took her seat. Her ears reddened from nervousness, and she covered her face with her cool little hands before taking a deep breath to steady herself.
The teacher soon handed her a signature sheet. She carefully wrote down her name and passed it back.
The broadcast sounded for the first time. The invigilators unsealed the answer-sheet envelopes and distributed the answer sheets.
The broadcast sounded for the second time. The invigilators unsealed the exam-paper envelopes and distributed the exam papers!
After writing her name and exam number, Zhao Yiyi hurriedly looked over the paper. The first Gaokao exam was always Chinese. After all, even students with poor grades could fill a Chinese exam paper to the brim, giving them the illusion that exams were not so frightening after all.
This year's essay topic was decent. It discussed the double-edged sword of technological progress and what a technological explosion could bring to society and individuals, both good and bad.
Zhao Yiyi breathed a slight sigh of relief. She had practiced this topic to death. After all, the space race had been raging these past two years, and even an idiot knew this was the direction in which the topic would be set.
Besides the main essay topic, three passages of reading material had