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sentence: When I took the first exam,I was  shocked  to find a 77,C-plus, on my test paper,  [MASK]  English was my best subject,I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to my arguments but remained  unmoved  . I decided to try harder, although I didn't know what that  meant  because school had always been easy for me.I read the books more carefully, but got another 77.