The test papers landed on his desk with a small thud, sending up minor billows of dust into eyes already starved of daylight. Joshua looked up in faint despair, unconsciously measuring the new additions against the stack of HSK questions already before him. "Even more questions," he wondered in shock. "How am I ever to finish them?"

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