Zhou Mi raised her wrist to check the time; it was 12:10 PM. She was a full half hour ahead of her planned schedule of finishing with the stone blocks and heading home.
“If you two don’t eat lunch, then we can get it done before three o’clock,” Zhou Mi said.
lunch?
Li Lechen and Wang Dazhuang looked at each other in bewilderment.
Lunch doesn't matter, the exam is the most important thing.
Skipping a meal is no big deal, but failing an exam means you can't eat well at every meal.
The two then nodded repeatedly, like chickens pecking at rice.
This is Li Lechen, and also Wang Dazhuang, seeing top students solve problems for the first time. You really don't know how they solve problems until you see it, and even after seeing it, you still don't know how they solve problems.
"Question 1, part b."
Zhou Mi glanced at the first multiple-choice question on the physics test paper and gave the answer in just a few seconds. Li Lechen and Wang Dazhuang quickly drew a "b" after the first question on their own physics test papers.
"Question 2, part d."
"The second or the fourth?" Li Lechen asked.
"The fourth one, the answer to the third question is A." Zhou Mi then announced the answer to the third question.
Li Lechen quickly drew a 'd' for the second question and an 'a' for the third question.
The answer to question four is bc.
"Isn't this a multiple-choice question? How come there are two options?" Li Lechen couldn't help but ask again.
"This question is missing an assumption, making the question imprecise. The correct answer is bc, but you can also just choose c; it won't be wrong. For question five, choose b, the second one. For question six, choose c."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, what was the answer to question five again?"
This time it was Wang Dazhuang who shouted. He was doing well at first, but now he's falling behind.
But Zhou Mi didn't care. She had done most of the questions on the test paper before, so she could basically tell the answers at a glance.
That's right, Zhou Mi isn't talented; she's just very hardworking. She does all the problems she can on weekdays, so summer homework like this from a question bank is really a waste of time for her.
Of course, it's also a good option for practicing reading speed.
"For questions 7, 8, and 9, the answer is A. For question 10, the answer is D, the fourth one."
The series of answers caught Li Lechen somewhat off guard.
I knew top students were awesome, but I didn't know they were this awesome.
China's future belongs to you! Changing the world also depends on you!
We just hope we don't rank last in the mock exams after school starts.
Even multiple-choice questions were already difficult, let alone the fill-in-the-blank and calculation questions that followed.
At first, Zhou Mi worked through the problem step by step, but later she found that even if she figured it out, Li Lechen and Wang Dazhuang couldn't start writing because they couldn't understand the various formulas and terms.
So Zhou Mi simply did her work directly, saving herself the trouble. Li Lechen also stopped copying and just watched Zhou Mi do her work. He had an even easier idea—to simply photocopy Zhou Mi's paper.
For Zhou Mi, solving problems was like a battle, every second a desperate struggle. But Li Lechen and Wang Dazhuang, who were planning to reap the rewards without lifting a finger, found even watching it a headache, and simply stared blankly out the window.
Li Lechen is a bit more talkative than Wang Dazhuang because he can start a live stream. Although the comments are exaggerated, he can still earn several thousand Sunshine Coins every minute, and he can also think about the future.
Very quickly, indeed very quickly, because in less than five minutes, Zhou Mi had already finished the entire physics exam, leaving only the last four multiple-choice questions.
From elementary to high school, teachers' favorite way to add bonus questions to exams is always the "bonus questions." To avoid being looked down upon by top students, teachers do need to include a few bonus questions at the end of each test. These are specifically designed for high-achieving students; average students can skip them, and struggling students probably won't even see them.
Zhou Mi is just a top student; she's not a god.
So when she got to the bonus question, which was a completely new question, she got stuck.
The questions were ones she had never encountered in any workbooks before, meaning she couldn't just glance at them and come up with the answers as she used to.
This prompted Li Lechen, who was surrounded by comments and donations, and Wang Dazhuang, whose mind was blank, to open their physics exam papers to see what kind of questions had stumped the top student.
"An extra question? We don't need to do this one." Wang Dazhuang blurted out.
Immediately, Zhou Mi rolled her eyes at her.
The bonus question is the only thing Zhou Mi needs to do.
Receiving that glare, Wang Dazhuang could only shrink back.
Out of curiosity, Li Lechen also began to examine the question.
"There's a glass bottle on a scale, with a sealed cap. A fly flies inside the bottle without touching it. Does the scale read the weight of the bottle, or is it greater? What if the fly floats in the bottle on a hydrogen balloon attached to its body?"
The questions are very simple; both questions only require you to choose one of three options, making them even simpler than traditional multiple-choice questions with four options.
For a moment, Li Lechen didn't even realize that the question had anything to do with physics.
Are the teachers who set these questions just bored out of their minds? At least they could work on circuits, friction, buoyancy, or something similar that's somewhat relevant to real life. But these questions about whether multiple flies would make the problem heavier—would they even be able to solve them, and would that have any impact on their future lives?
Well, as a student, the most unreasonable person in the world is the teacher.
In any case, whatever the teacher does is right. If the teacher is wrong, please refer to the previous sentence for correction.
Let's analyze the question then.
Since the fly didn't touch the bottle, it naturally wouldn't have any weight. To exaggerate a bit, if something like that has weight, then wouldn't a person under a low-flying airplane feel like they were being crushed by Mount Tai in an instant?
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