美国的所有事物都很有趣，除了期末考试之外。那是一个我们都必须要做的全州范围的考试，因为我们都住在马萨诸塞州。我们会有语言艺术考试、数学考试和科学考试。这些考试从三月到五月进行。期末考试对我们来说十分重要，甚至对所有中小学生来说都是一样。因为期末考试的成绩关系着我们能不能上一个好中学，甚至于高中。每个人都在忙碌着，复习着功课。我们认为这是一年中最糟糕的时间了，我们要整天考试。

　　但是老师们想的却和我们不同。在合唱课上，艾尔瑞智先生说：“终于到三月了，我太喜欢这个月了。”“什么？”我们都很惊讶，因为所有人都十分讨厌三月。“因为我几乎一个月都不用上班了呀。”唉，我们开始了这忙碌的一天。

　　历史课和语言艺术课是我的两大难题。我讨厌它们而且我在这两门课上也是一问三不知。所以这上半天都很痛苦很无聊。在下午我们上了一节数学课，没人喜欢那节课，就算他是麦克斯(数学大王)。但是对我来说，美国的数学很简单所以我很喜欢，尤其是像我这样的中国小孩。我们用卡片玩了一种游戏。两个人在比赛，他们试着更快地解出卡片上的数学题来。我喜欢这个游戏。当你连续打败了五个人时，男生们叫你“人类计算器”。我做得很顺利，现在已经赢了四个人了。下一个人就是爱丽。本森小姐说出了问题：“十一除以一是什么？”“十一？”爱丽没有听清楚。“祝贺你，爱丽，你赢了！”她答对了。唉，我眼看就是人类计算器了呀！

　　过了一会儿，很多人都成为了“还差一步人类计算器”，但是我们班还没有真正的人类计算器呢。不过就算如此，这个游戏非常有趣，当我们在享受着有趣的游戏时，我们又学到了很多东西。而且没有人相信这些有趣的知识都是关于那无聊的期末考试的。这个游戏结束了，这堂课也结束了。现在，我们已经信心十足，准备面对期末考试了！

　　March 2, 2010

　　The big MCAS was coming this month, so scary but happy!

　　Everything was fun here in the United States, but except the MCAS. It’s a test that we should all take because we all live in Massachusetts。

　　We will have language and arts test, math test and science test. Those tests are coming up in this month and May. MCAS is very important for us that every kid in elementary school and middle school would take them. Because the score of MCAS is important for every one of us to get into a good middle school, even high school. Everyone is busy and reviewing for the tests. We think that this is the most awful time in the year since we would be taking tests all day long。

　　But teachers didn’t think the way as we did. On Chorus class, Mr。

　　Eldridge said, “It’s finally March. I love this month。” “What?” We were  surprised because we hated March so much. “Because I don’t have to work for almost a month!” Aye, and we started the busy studying day. Social studies, languages and arts were the big problems for me. I hated them and I was awful on them. So it was hard for me for the first half of the day. In the afternoon we had math class. That was the class that nobody liked, even Mr. Max (math). But for me, the math was easy in the United States so I liked it, especially for a Chinese kid like me. We played a math game with flash cards. Two people were racing with each other, trying to solve the math problem faster than the other person. I liked this game. The boys would call you “human calculator” if you could win five people in a roll. I did very well and had already won four people. The next one was Ellie. Ms. Benson asked the question, “Eleven divided by one。” “Eleven?” Ellie didn’t hear it。

　　“Congratulations, Ellie, you got it!” She was right! Yuck, I was almost a human calculator!

　　Later, there were many people became the “only one step to human calculator”， but there were no real human calculators in our class. But the game was really fun, while we were playing the fun game, we also learned many things. And nobody believed those fun stuff were for the boring MCAS. The game was over; the class was over, too. And we are very confident to face the MCAS now!