教授站在有机生物班的20名毕业班学生面前,与他们讨论采用什么方式举行期末考试。 “我想说的是,很高兴本学期为你们上课。我知道你们学习都非常努力,你们中的许多人,今年暑假过后就要上医学院了。所以,你们当中没有人希望自己的毕业典礼一团糟,本周你们一直在庆祝毕业呢。所以,任何选择退出今天考试的同学,将会得到‘B’。” 教室立刻充满了欣喜之情,一部分学生站了起来,走到教授身边,感谢他并按照教授的提议签了名。当最后一个学生签了名并离开了教室之后,教授望着剩余的一小部分学生,问道:“还有其他人要签名离开吗?再给你们最后一次机会。” 又有一个学生站了起来,走到教授身边,签名同意教授的条件后,离开了教室。 教授关上门,看着教室里剩余的学生,说:“非常高兴看到在座的各位如此自信,你们都会得‘A’。” The Final Exam A professor stood before his class of 20 senior organic biology students,about to hand out the final exam. “ I want to say that it’s been a pleasure teaching you this semester. I know you’ve all worked extremely hard and many of you are off to medical school after summer. So that no one gets their graduation ceremony messed up because they might have been celebrating a bit too much this week,anyone who would like to opt out of the final exam today will receive a ‘ B ’ for the course.,’ There was much rejoicing amongst the class as students got up, passed by the professor to thank him and sign out on his offer. As the last taker left the room,the professor looked out over the handful of remaining students and asked,‘‘Anyone else? This is your last chance. ’’ One final student rose up and took the offer. The professor closed the door and took attendance of those students remaining.‘I’m glad to see you believe in yourself. ’’“You all have‘A’.” |