14、Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions {TSE}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

15、According to the passage, which of the following statement is true?

A.A change in the educational system will eliminate the need to chea

B.The problem of student cheating has its roots in deeper problem

C.Students do not cheat on essay test

D.Punishment is an effective method of stopping cheatin

16、Which of the following statements reflects the information in the passage?

A.The educational system and its administrators are partly to blame for the rise in the cheatin

B.The student who cheats must be at fault because the system is correc

C.The 1960s vision of changing the world led students to confor

D.Punishment for cheaters has always been severe in this countr

17、The phrase "the individuals" in Line 9, Para. 3 refers to_____________

A.students who practice cheating

B.parents who put pressure on their children

C.school administrators who approve of short-answer tests

D.teachers who are too hesitant to take actions against cheating

18、The author probably would agree with the point of view that_____________

A.students who cheat should be expelled from school

B.parents alone must take responsibility for the rise in student cheating

C.the educational system is sound, and students must follow every rule

D.the educational system in this country would benefit from a thorough evaluation

19、The current booming of Internet industry is compared to_____________

A.ice in the Arctic

B.sand in the desert

C.seawater in the ocean

D.a Klondike-style gold rush

20、One of the reasons, why the inventions failed to deliver to investors the expected rewards is________

A.the policies of the states

B.the lacked innovations

C.the commercialization of the invention

D.the competition, from other investors

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