Chapter 76: Translation Bureau Exam, Her Written Test and Interview Scores Are So Different?!
Rong Shan's grandfather is an old leader who has retired. Rong Shan's father married into their family. Now Rong Shan's mother is the women's director of the Hai City Women's Federation, and Rong Shan's father is the deputy director of a machinery factory.
Then Rong Shan herself was the lead dancer of the art troupe in their military region.
The whole family is doing well, no wonder Rong Shan's mother was so arrogant when she reported her soldier brother for seducing her daughter.
I heard that her family is planning to find a husband for Rong Shan, their only child. No wonder Rong Shan's mother looks down on her family's soldier brother who can't have children.
After hearing about this family's background, Lu Chiyu only wanted to say one thing: they are indeed half-baked people wandering around aimlessly, and she doesn't even care about this little background.
After getting the intelligence, in order to stop Qian Fanghua and the others from worrying about this little thing, Lu Chiyu talked about the New Year's Day Gala to divert their attention.
Unexpectedly, when talking about this, Qian Fanghua and the others became even more depressed.
Luo Yu, who was usually quiet, said directly, "We, the military wives, should have a meeting this afternoon to decide what to perform, but we should just go up and sing a song like we did in previous years."
Guo Caixia also said, "What do you mean by 'should'? That's definitely the point. How can we, the wives of soldiers who are mostly illiterate, compare to the doctors and nurses in the art troupe and military hospitals? We're always at the bottom of the heap. Why spend that money on costumes and arranging performances?"
Even Qian Fanghua said, "Yeah, this is some kind of cultural performance. We military wives are always just there to make up the numbers."
So Lu Chiyu understood that they didn't need to worry about the New Year's Day performance, they just needed to lie down.
Sure enough, during the afternoon meeting, the military wives in the family compound unanimously agreed to sing again at the New Year's Day party.
The song we sang was still "Unity is Strength" which we sang last year!
Everyone knows this song and there is no need for rehearsal. Whoever wants to perform can go up there. Just gather 20 or 30 people and they can go up.
Lu Chiyu: ...It's really perfunctory, but she likes it! They military wives are really united!
However, before the New Year's Day Gala, Lu Chiyu had to go to the provincial capital to take the translation exam at the Translation Bureau.
On the afternoon before the exam, Gu Yuan arranged for leave to drive Lu Chiyu to the provincial capital.
The provincial capital is about a five-hour drive from their Hai City. They left for the provincial capital as soon as Gu Yuan returned from the training ground at five o'clock in the afternoon.
They finally arrived in the provincial capital at ten o'clock in the evening, and then they stayed in a guesthouse near the examination center with the letter of introduction.
The next morning, Gu Yuan woke Lu Chiyu up on time. After breakfast, the two walked to the examination room.
The examination venue was a newspaper office. When Lu Chiyu arrived, she found out that there were only ten candidates taking the exam, and that was only ten including her.
Lu Chiyu once again felt the shortage of translation talents in this era.
The first thing to take was the written test, and Lu Chiyu answered the questions very smoothly as she expected.
She knew the answers to all the questions above, and with her knowledge from later generations, she was able to answer them with ease.
After completing the test paper perfectly, Lu Chiyu checked it again and again, and finally handed in the paper half an hour early and went to the state-owned restaurant for dinner with her soldier brother.
Because we went late, we had to queue during the rush hour.
The oral interview was held in the afternoon. Facing the examiner's questions, Lu Chiyu answered them immediately. To the end, the examiner even felt a little tired in front of her and quickly announced the end of the interview.
Lu Chiyu didn't know that when she walked out of the interview room, the examiner inside immediately exploded.
Examiner A slammed the table and praised, "Comrade Lu Chiyu's spoken English is truly excellent. It seems she's even better than Lao Zhao's. We must admit her!"
Lao Zhao was the examiner, and he nodded in agreement: "That's right, Comrade Lu Chiyu is the best spoken English of the young people I have ever met, even better than me. It really is true that young people are to be feared.
It seems we don't have to worry about a lack of translators in today's society; we have plenty of talented people in our great China."
"Yes, Comrade Lu Chiyu is not only good at speaking, but her insights are also rare. I believe she can definitely do our translation work." Examiner B also said.
Then a group of examiners nodded repeatedly.
However, at this moment, a male examiner in his fifties suddenly said, "But Comrade Lu Chiyu's written test scores were extremely poor. I think we should be more cautious in deciding whether to admit her."
Examiner A immediately said in disbelief, "How is that possible? Comrade Lu Chiyu's oral English is so good, how could she fail the written test?"
The others nodded: "Yes, yes..."
The male examiner calmly took out a test paper from under the table and said, "This is Comrade Lu Chiyu's test paper. If you don't believe me, you can take a look."
At noon, the examiners had already corrected all the test papers, but the names were covered at that time, and the scores were recorded by the male examiner.
When they heard that this was Lu Chiyu's test paper, they all came over to take a look without caring about their image.
After a while, Chief Examiner Zhao said in disbelief, "This... this is impossible. Is this exam paper really Comrade Lu Chiyu's?"
There is only one word to describe how he performed on the test paper in his hand: a complete mess!
Although the other examiners didn't say anything, their expressions were very ugly at this moment.
The male examiner nodded and said, "Chief Examiner Zhao, it is absolutely true. I think Comrade Lu Chiyu's English level is seriously inconsistent with what she showed in the interview just now.
She may be the kind of person who listens to a lot of English radio and has a decent spoken English, but actually knows nothing about written articles.
But what we need is someone who can translate articles, and she is not suitable.
We can easily find people who can speak English on the streets among foreigners, but that is because it is their mother tongue. But can they all become translators? Not necessarily.
And I have a bigger suspicion..."
He paused deliberately at this point, and as expected, Chief Examiner Zhao frowned and asked, "What doubts?"
"Comrade Lu Chiyu may have just memorized our interview questions by accident, which is why she was able to answer questions so fluently with you, Chief Examiner Zhao. In fact, her real English level is not that good." said the male examiner.
The male examiner's words plunged the office into silence.
Many examiners felt that the male examiner's statement did not stand up to scrutiny, after all, Lu Chiyu's oral level was so high.
But this does not completely rule out the possibility that she really memorized the questions, otherwise how could she have done so poorly on the test!
When everyone was silent, the male examiner continued, "The translation talents we recruit at the Translation Bureau are related to the national economy and people's livelihood. We must not be careless. We only have two vacancies this time, so I strongly recommend not recruiting Comrade Lu Chiyu. Instead, we will choose to admit the candidate who performed well in both the written test and the interview."
After these words were spoken, everyone fell even more silent.
Lu Chiyu was the last candidate they interviewed, and there were indeed two reluctant candidates ahead of him.
But one of them was okay, with acceptable interview and written test, but the other one was not so good.
This is exactly the opposite of Lu Chiyu. He got full marks in the written test, but stumbled in the interview, which made people frown!
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