兩星期前的 GAT（General Aptitude Test，基本能力評估），測驗範圍如名所示，主要是最基本、應有的閱讀理解、數理邏輯跟資料歸納，十五分鐘閱卷時間，之後三小時內須完成兩篇作文及七十道四選一選擇題。

第一篇文章是說明文，要把提供的兩頁資料連圖片整理為一篇介紹鑽石的文章。第二篇則是辯論文，以四句陳述句中的一或多句為基礎，寫一篇清楚闡述自己觀點的文章，今年是談 heroes（中譯「英雄」意義不盡相同）。選擇題都是不同形式的，大概是語言跟數學各佔一半。

很多題目都頗有趣，這裡節錄四題，都是關於本文標題所指的那首詩。很有意思吧？

Prosperity

monday to friday at the plant
concrete yards are busy with
vehicles and movement altho most of what
moves is machinery
now and then a human figure crosses the open
space looking small & helpless
in the sky above the plant not much is blue
behind the buildings in a grey channel something
oozes past seeming to have been a river

on friday night when the machines are silent
and the watchman finishes his rounds
walking away with gun and torch like some
mistaken supplicant then only the dark
finds its way through wire fences
& sometimes due to atmospheric conditions (for which
the management is not responsible) the wind will rise
or in the wasteland hours of industrial sunday
rain might start falling inadvertently as if
still thinking of a plant as some kind of
flower

Michael Dransfield

港式中文，不過就算了吧。重點是，我也不想整整兩個星期都在溫習預習……

真想不到學期最後一天了，還得面對奇怪的英文 SAC（這奇怪之處不能三言兩語說明白），雖然最後總算（勉強）完成，但已疲憊不堪，更甚者有點心力交瘁。

One more week to go. Yet this is the toughest week in this entire term by far as well.

SAC SAC SAC's. English – every single day, writing away furiously, trying to finish off three essays in class, then there's the written explanations to worry about. Why do we have to be the lab rats? This year's the first time they're running the new Study Design for English, so the exam is vastly different from what it used to be. Grrr.

請留意以下圖片：

此乃李卓庭即將發行的 EP〈Eunix Mag〉的封面。至少 YesAsia 上放的是這樣子的。

其實問題只出在標題下那行用法語寫的字：

一小時四分鐘後，南國的第一間 Apple Store，將於悉尼市中心正式開幕。

我懶，貼連結好了。