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said to the head master, “Soapy always reads English

in the office…”

But to his astonishment, the school head master

immediately cut him short and shouted at him.

“What’s wrong with reading English?” he said. “He

is an English major. If he doesn’t read English, he’ll

forget it. English is an important language. Sooner or

later, we’ll study it. He is a good teacher. As a sports

teacher, he led our school basketball teams to take

part in the city’s middle school basketball match and

has achieved a good status for the school. What can

you do? The only thing you know is to smoke, to talk

dirty language and to beat people. You should take a

good, critical examination of yourself!”

Squint was very upset. He never thought that the

school head master would scold him. He was an

informer. He should have been praised. But now he

was demoralized. He knew nothing and was not

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