英语四级
Passage One
Questions are based on the following passage.
Cheating is nothing new. But today, education and administrations are finding that instances of academic dishonesty on the part of students have become more frequent -- and are less likely to be punished -- than in the past. Cheating appears to have gained acceptance among good and poor students alike.
Why is student cheating on the rise? No one really knows. Some blame the trend on a general loosening of moral values among today's youth. Others have attributed increased cheating to the fact that today's youth are far more pragmatic (实际的) than their idealistic predecessors. Whereas in the late sixties and early seventies, students were filled with visions about changing the world, today's students feel great pressure to conform and succeed. In interviews with students at high schools and colleges around the country, both young men and women said that cheating had become easy. Some suggested they did it out of spite for teachers they did not respect. Others looked at it as a game. Only if they were caught, some said, would they feel guilty. "People are competitive," said a second-year college student
named Anna, from Chicago. "There's an underlying fear. If you don't do well, your life is going to be mined. The pressure is not only from parents and friends but from yourself. To achieve. To succeed. It's almost as though we have to outdo other people to achieve our own goals. "
Edward Wynne, editor of a magazine blames the rise in academic dishonesty in the schools.He claims that administrators and teachers have been too hesitant to take action. Dwight Huber,chairman of the English Department at Amarillo sees the matter differently, blaming the rise in cheating on the way students evaluated. 'I would cheat if I felt I was being cheated," Mr. Huber said. He feels that as long as teachers give short-answer tests rather than essay questions and rate students by the number of facts they can memorize rather than by how well they can synthesize in-formation, students will try to beat the system. "The concept of cheating is based on the false assumption that the system is legitimate and there is something wrong with the individuals who's doing it," he said, "That's too easy an answer. We've got to start looking at the system.Educators are finding that students who cheat______.
A．have poor academic recordsl
B．use the information in late years
C．can be academically weak or strong
D．are more likely to be punished than before
【解析】选[C]。文章首段末句提到作弊似乎在好生和差生中同样都能被接受，[C]中的academically weak or strong 意为“学习上的差或好”，是对文意的同义转述，故为答案。[B]在原文没有提及；由首段第二句中的less likely to be punished可知，[D]与此意思相矛盾，故排除。
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