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Let $q\ge 3$ be a positive integer. For any integers $m$ and $n$, the two-term exponential sum $C(m,n,k;q)$ is defined by $C(m,n,k;q)={\sum }_{a=1}^{q}e((m{a}^k+na)/q)$, where $e\left(y\right)={\mathrm{e}}^{2\pi \mathrm{i}y}$. In this paper, we use the properties of Gauss sums and the estimate for Dirichlet character of polynomials to study the mean value problem involving two-term exponential sums and Dirichlet character of polynomials, and give an interesting asymptotic formula for it.