85岁的退休机械师明天参加高考

An 85-year-old man from Huainan, East China's Anhui province, will sit the national college entrance examination on June 7 this year, together with other 10 million applicants.

今年6月7日，来自安徽省淮南市的一名85岁男子将和其他1000万名申请者一起参加高考。

Yao Keliang, a retired coalmine mechanic, took the examination in 2012 and 2014 to fulfill his dream of studying at university, becoming the oldest person to take the test at the time.

姚克良(音译)是一名退休的煤矿机械师，为了实现上大学的梦想，他在2012年和2014年参加了高考，成为当时参加高考年龄最大的人。

He returned to the exam in 2018, his fourth time to sit the test.

2018年，他再次参加高考，这是他第四次参加高考。

Yao said that there is no end to learning and that he hopes to achieve a passing score this year so he can become a literature student.

姚克良表示，学习永无止境，他希望今年能通过考试，这样他就能成为一名文学专业的学生。

He has written a number of articles on his life in retirement and in 2001 finished a 300,000-word novel.

他写了很多关于退休生活的文章，并于2001年完成了一部30万字的小说。

His favorite universities are Peking University and Beijing Normal University.

他最喜欢的大学是北京大学和北京师范大学。

For the test, Yao reviewed all subjects by himself and didn't take any tutorial classes, saying that books are the best teacher.

为了这次考试，姚克良自学了所有科目，没有上任何辅导课，他说书是最好的老师。

He studied for about four hours a day, always during the day: "I have to do housework. I watch TV at night, paying attention to the current affairs," he said.

他每天学习大约四个小时，都是在白天。“我得做家务，晚上我要看电视，关注时事。”

The most difficult subject for him is mathematics. "If I can overcome math, the other subjects are much easier," he said.

对他来说，最难的科目是数学。他说：“如果我能克服数学，其他科目就容易多了”

His children support him. He now lives by himself, and isn't nervous about the exam. The test venue is about a kilometer away from his house, and he plans to get there by bus.

他的孩子们都很支持他。他现在一个人住，对考试不紧张。考场离他家大约一公里，他打算乘公共汽车去。

This year, 513,000 people have applied to take the examination in Anhui.

今年，安徽省共有51.3万人报名参加高考。