Mrs. Whitson taught us science. On the first day，she gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus，an animal that was wiped out during the Ice Age. She passed around a skull（头骨）as she talked. We all took notes and later had a quiz.

When she returned my paper，I was shocked. There was a big red X through each of my answers. I had failed. There had to be some mistakes！（A）我确切地记下了老师说的。Then I realized that everyone in the class had failed. What had happened？

Very simple，Mrs. Whitson explained. She had made up all the stuff about the cattywampus. There had never been any such animals. The information in our notes was，therefore，incorrect.

Needless to say，we were（B）outraged. What kind of test was this？And what kind of teacher？We should have figured it out，Mrs. Whitson said. After all，at every moment she was passing around the cattywampus skull（in truth，a cat's）.Hadn't she been telling us that there was no such an animal？She had described its amazing night vision，the color of its fur and any number of other facts she couldn't have known. She had given the animal a ridiculous（荒谬的）name，and we still believed her words were right.

（C）The zeroes on our papers would be recorded in her grade book，she said. And they were.

Mrs. Whitson said she hoped we would learn something from this experience. She told us not to let our minds go to sleep，and to speak up if we ever thought she or the textbook was wrong.

【小题1】Was the skull the teacher took to the classroom the cattywampus skull？
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【小题2】把（A）处划线部分的句子翻译成英语。
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【小题3】Why was the information in the students' notes incorrect？
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【小题4】猜测（B）处划线部分单词的意思，写一个同义词。
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【小题5】把（C）处划线部分的句子翻译成汉语。
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