2021年管理类联考英语练习（34）
来源：北京学苑教育
（适用于管理类联考：工商管理硕士MBA；会计硕士MPACC；公共管理硕士MPA；工程管理硕士MEM；审计硕士MAud；旅游管理硕士MTA；图书情报硕士MLIS备考使用）
Reading Comprehension
"I promise." " I swear to you it'll never happen again." "I give you my word." "Honestly.Believe me." Sure, I trust. Why not I teach English composition at a private college. With a certain excitement and intensity. I read my students' essays, hoping to find the person behind the pen. As each semester progresses, plagiarism（剽窃）appears. Not only is my intelligence insulted as one assumes I won't detect a polished piece of prose from an otherwise-average writer, but I feel a sadness that a student has resorted to buying a paper from a peer. Writers have styles like fingerprints and after several assignments, I can match a student's work with his or her name even if it's missing from the upper left-hand corner.
Why is learning less important than a higher grade-point average（GPA） When we're threatened or sick, we make conditional promises. "If you let me pass math I will …." "Lord, if you get me over this before the big homecoming game I'll…." Once the situation is behind us, so are the promises. Human nature Perhaps, but we do use that cliché（陈词滥调）to get us out of uncomfortable bargains. Divine interference during distress is asked; gratitude is unpaid. After all,few fulfill the contract, so why should anyone be the exception. Why not Six years ago, I took a student before the dean. He had turned in an essay with the vocabulary and sentence structure of PhD thesis. Up until that time, both his out-of-class and in-class work were borderline passing.
I questioned the person regarding his essay and he swore it I'd understand this copy would not have the time and attention an out-of-class paper is given, but he had already a finished piece so he understood what was asked. He sat one hour, then turned in part of a page of unskilled writing and faulty logic. I confronted him with both essays. "I promise…., I'm not lying. I swear to you that I wrote the essay. I'm just nervous today."
The head of the English department agreed with my finding, and the meeting with the dean had the boy's parents present. After an hour of discussion, touching on eight of the boy's previous essays and his grade-point average, which indicated he was already on academic probation（留校察看）, the dean agreed that the student had plagiarized. His parents protested, "He's only a child" and we instructors are wiser and should be compassionate. College people are not really children and most times would resent being labeled as such…. Except in this uncomfortable circumstance.
1.According to the author, students commit plagiarism mainly for_____.
A．money B．degree C．higher GPA D．reputation
2.the sentence " Once the situation is behind us , so are the promises' implies that_________.
A．students usually keep their promises
B．some students tend to break their promises
C．the promises are always behind the situation
D．we cannot judge the situation in advance, as we do to the promises
3.The "borderline passing"（Line 3,Para.3）probably means____________.
A．fairly good B．extremely poor
C．above average D．below average
4.The boy's parents thought their son should be excused mainly because_______________.
A．teachers should be compassionate
B．he was only a child
C．instructors were wiser
D．he was threatened
5.Which of the following might serve as the title of this passage
A．Human Nature B．Conditional Promises
C．How to Detect Cheating D．The Sadness of Plagiarism
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