Unit7 The Clever Student
A clever student put his name down for a course in geography at a college, but after the first lecture he stopped going. The geography lecturer noticed that this student was always absent, so he was very surprised when he saw the boy’s name on the list of students who wanted to take the geography examination.
The lecturer had prepared a difficult examination paper, which followed his lectures very closely, and he was eager to see how this student answered the questions. He expected that the student’s answers would be very bad; but when they reached him soon after the examination and he examined them carefully, he was able to find only one small mistake in them. As this surprised him very much, he went through the paper again twice, but was still not able to find more than that one small mistake, so he sent for the student.
When the student had come into the room, the lecturer said to him, ‘I know that you came only to my first lecture and that you have been absent from all the others; but now I have examined your answer paper very carefully, and I have been able to find only one small mistake in it.’
‘Oh, I am very sorry about that mistake, sir,’ answered the student. ‘I would not have made that mistake if I had not been confused by your first lecture.’
※words and phrases
geography 地理
geometry 幾何
lecturer 講師
closely 念入りに、注意して
eager to 〜であるよう熱望する
send for 呼びにやる
He is very cool!!
最後がオチなんですね。教師の立場がないですね。
今日もいい天気ですね。暑くならないうちに昨日の続きで植木の剪定しようかと考えています。
先生の講義を聞いていたら間違えて答えて、講義を聞かなかったほうが正解だったという事でしょうか？
この先生も当たり前の問題を出していたということですけど、よほど混乱をさせる講義だったのでしょうね。
この先生が100点満点は簡単に取らせない出題をしていたとしたら、先生の勝ちです。
最後の「オチ」が効いてますね。皮肉たっぷりです。
長文の英語のストーリーのアップを有難うございます。
講義を一回しか受けていなかった生徒の勝ちですかね。
講師がいけませんよね。生徒の答えが良くないよう思うなんて。
でも、生徒も一回目だけの受講でテストを受けたんですよね。
読み違えているかもしれません。