Vui cười: Trận chung kết

[Scooby-Doo]

Đây là câu chuyện có thật xảy ra tại Duke University. Mong các bạn đừng chủ quan chơi tới bến trước khi làm xong bài thi cuối khóa nhé. Nếu đã lỡ chơi tới bến thì phải tìm lý do nào đó khá hơn là hai SV dưới đây!

THE FINAL

This past fall semester, at Duke University, there were two sophomores who were taking Organic Chemistry and who did pretty well on all of the quizzes and the midterms and labs, etc., such that going into the final they had a solid A.

These two friends were so confident going into the final that the weekend before finals week, even though the Chem final was on Monday, they decided to go up to University of Virginia (UV) and party with some friends up there.

So they did this and had a great time. However, with their hangovers and everything, they overslept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Duke until early Monday morning. Rather than taking the final then, what they did was to find Professor Aldric after the final and explain to him why they missed the final.

They told him that they went up to UV for the weekend, and had planned to come back in time to study, but that they had a flat tire on the way back and didn't have a spare and couldn't get help for a long time and so were late getting back to campus.

Aldric thought this over and then agreed that they could make up the final on the following day. The two guys were elated and relieved. So, they studied that night and went in the next day at the time that Aldric had told them. He placed them in SEPARATE rooms and handed each of them a test booklet and told them to begin.

They looked at the first problem, which was something simple about free radical formation and was worth 5 points. "Cool" they thought, "this is going to be easy." They did that problem and then turned the page. They were unprepared, however, for what they saw on the next page. It said: (95 points) Which tire? Câu hỏi này sốc quá!!!

- The final: kỳ thi cuối khóa, trận chung kết
- Sophomore: SV năm thứ hai
- Fall semester: học kỳ mùa thu (từ tháng 09 đến tháng 12)
- Quiz: bài kiểm tra
- Midterm: bài kiểm tra giữa học kỳ
- So confident: rất tự tin
- Up there: ở trên đó
- Hangover: say xỉn
- Overslept: ngủ quên, ngủ nướng
- Missed the final: trễ, lỡ (không kịp) kỳ thi cuối khóa
- A flat tire: bể vỏ xe, xì bánh xe
- Spare: dự trữ
- Elated: phấn chấn, phấn khởi, hoan hỉ..
- Relieve: yên lòng, yên tâm
- Separate: tách rời
- Test booklet: cuốn bài thi (ở nước ngoài SV thường làm bài thi trong một cuốn tập).
- Free radical formation: hình thành gốc tự do
- Cool: tuyệt vời, hay quá, lạnh
- Unprepared: không chuẩn bị
- Which tire?: loại vỏ xe nào?
(Sưu tầm)