The next day, Kay and the George family came to the gymnasium of Midtown High School.

Top-level and efficient schools like Midtown High School have better supporting facilities than ordinary universities. For example, their gymnasium can accommodate more than 10,000 people, which is comparable to a commercial gymnasium. And the best thing about it is that it is not rented out to outsiders. You need to know that the light

The upkeep and maintenance of such a large gymnasium is a terrible expense.

From here you can see how awesome Midtown High School is.

The venue was very exaggerated, and there were a lot of people coming. NAQT is still quite powerful among the first-class universities. Unlike those schools that worship happy education, schools that implement elite teaching will spend a lot of money to recruit those who

Excellent students.

For example, Gwen's parents did not graduate from Midtown High School. George graduated from an ordinary high school, and George's wife, Gwen's mother, Helen, graduated from Carterbury High School. This is also a very good school.

High school. But Gwen’s academic gene showed up in junior high school. Originally, Caterbury High School wanted to take Gwen into its possession, and even found her schoolmate Helen. Helen also planned the same way at the time, and everyone was willing to do so.

His children study at his former alma mater. Carterbury offers good conditions and tuition fees are free.

At the same time, Zhongcheng High School also took a fancy to Gwen, but Zhongcheng High School was more generous and directly offered a 3S-level scholarship. This level of scholarship not only frees tuition, but also gives extra money. So the George family decisively

I chose Midtown High School.

It's just so realistic.

In fact, the George family made the right choice. Gwen is only a sophomore in high school (i.e. 10 years old) and has already become a student assistant. She should join the student union this year and become the president of the student union. This is a very rare honor. After all, there are many universities in the United States.

When awarding scholarships, it is not just based on the past, social practical experience and various honors are also indispensable. It is no problem for Gwen to enter college, but if he wants to get a full scholarship from a top university, similar honors will be

essential.

Even with this kind of honor, Gwen will benefit immensely even if she enters society.

Many people say that there are no aristocrats in the United States, which is not true at all. The United States does not have aristocrats in name only, but it does have aristocrats in fact.

As early as the founding of the United States, a system based on elites was established. Their political system has never been a democracy, but an elite representative system. If you look closely at their electoral system, you will understand. This elite is actually another form of aristocracy.

That's all.

The United States has no king, so there are no titles of nobility.

So how to distinguish between elites and common people?

So the elites thought of a way, through education!

That’s right education!

Those good universities are the easiest symbol to distinguish one's identity.

Some universities sound prestigious when you hear them. For example, if you graduated from Yale University, other Americans will immediately be in awe of you. After all, Yale University is not something ordinary people can get into, even if you have good academic performance.

You may not be able to enter such a university.

The admission standards of universities like Yale University have always been mysterious to the outside world. They have no fixed standards. It is not just how many points you get in the exam that you can enter. It is very troublesome. There is a set of data that can intuitively see the United States.

Class boundaries.

Among the students admitted to well-known universities in the United States, 75% come from high-income families, while only a poor 25% of low-income students! And among these poor 25%,

There are many people who will have to give up Yale because they can't afford tuition.

Let's take Yale as an example. Yale University charges more than 80,000 US dollars per year. Tuition fees: 45,000 to 50,000 US dollars per year. Room and board: 25,000 to 30,000 US dollars per year. What's even more awesome is that there are book fees. Those in the United States

The textbooks at top universities are all different, and this alone costs more than $2,000.

With such a rough calculation, it's almost 80,000, but students may have daily expenses.

Calculated in this way, after one year, it will cost 100,000 yuan. And 60% of families in the United States do not even have a thousand yuan in savings... How many students can you expect to be able to afford it?

The American Dream, in many cases, is really just a dream. It is not something you can succeed by working hard.

With this resume, Gwen will be able to complete a class jump and become a noble graduate of a prestigious school! She won't be like George, who has a hard time talking about her alma mater.

To be honest, Kai was expecting a fight between dragons and tigers.

It was as intense as an NBA game. The audience below burst into applause and cheers. The competition on the stage was so intense that everyone was sweating profusely and veins popped out, as if they were going to eat their opponents alive.

After watching the results, I realized... no wonder no one watched the NAQT TV broadcast.

The audience watched in silence the whole time as the two teams on the stage competed in knowledge. Only when the answer was correct, there would be applause. Everything was calm... no passion at all.

All in all, there was no sense of participation.

And...hell, this is a high school student competition, right?

Why are those questions so difficult?

Anyway, Kai was confused. Kai could understand the words in those questions, but he was blinded by the combination of them.

No, no, you may not even understand the words.

For example, a word appeared in the middle of the game.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Do you think that's a bunch of gibberish?

No, that's a word.

The Chinese word is silicosis! Or pneumoconiosis.

Anyway, Kai was confused, what is this?

It was only when Gwen's mother took out her phone and searched for the word that Kay and George figured out what it was.

Good guy, good guy, a word has 45 letters. Doesn’t this cost people’s lives?

And this is a knowledge quiz for high school students, right? Why do such professional medical words appear?

All in all, it's very exaggerated.

It’s strange that someone would watch this kind of game on TV!

Fortunately, Kai can read the scoreboard.

Well, luckily we didn't end up in a situation where we still didn't know which team won at the end.

Midtown High School wins!

Then the whole audience burst into applause.

Seeing George's excited expression, Kai was really afraid that he would go crazy like Fan Jin who passed the exam.

Fortunately, this didn't happen.

Just when everyone was preparing to celebrate, a sudden announcement came out from the school radio, asking all teachers and students to evacuate immediately.

Kai and George looked at each other, feeling bad.

Evacuate students?

Was there a fire?

Fortunately, this time because the final was to be held, the New York City Police Department specially dispatched additional police officers nearby. Mass incidents are a very serious problem no matter which country they are in, not to mention that they involve students.

If an accident happened at a school like Midtown High School, the police chief would be ready to bow down and dismiss the get out of class.

Just as the two were helping to evacuate Zhongcheng High School, their phones rang.

Then their expressions changed.

The UN General Assembly venue was bombed!

…

The United Nations Headquarters building is located on the east side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, USA. Its west side is bounded by First Avenue, the south side is East 42nd Street, the north side is East 48th Street, and the east side overlooks the East River.

It does not fall under the jurisdiction of the New York Police Department, or even strictly speaking, it does not belong to the territory of the United States. The United Nations Headquarters is owned by the United Nations, and it is an international territory. Unless with the consent of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the federal territory of the United States

No military officer or official of the government, state or local government, whether administrative, judicial, military or police officer, may enter the United Nations Headquarters.

Within the headquarters, the United Nations has its own firefighting and security forces.

After all, the problem is that the New York police can't really turn a blind eye.

For example, in this conference, many demonstrators came to support the King of Wakanda. This also caused this session of the United Nations General Assembly to attract a lot of attention. Therefore, in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, the New York police specially sent a large number of police officers to the conference.

around to prevent accidents.

As a result, the accident happened.

This meeting was held on the 13th floor of the United Nations Secretariat Building, south of the United Nations Headquarters. It was considered a warm-up for the formal conference.

Something happened.

A bomb exploded beneath the building, causing serious damage to the side of the building facing the road.

More than 80 demonstrators died on the spot, and a dozen passers-by were killed and hundreds injured. Inside the building, there were also heavy losses. Thirty-seven staff members of the United Nations Headquarters died directly, and dozens of people were injured.

2 staff members were injured. During the conference, the King of Wakanda died directly, 12 representatives died, and dozens of representatives were injured...

It can be said that this is the largest terrorist attack since the tragedy in September 2001.

The key is that the impact is extremely bad!

Internationally, almost immediately, various countries expressed their opinions on this terrorist attack. While condemning the perpetrators, they also put pressure on the United States.
To be continued...