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  3. "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

"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

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问题     "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 appears. Not only is my intelligence insulted as one assumes I won’t detect a polished piece of prose from another wise-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 cliche 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 was his own work. I gave him the identical assignment and told him to write it in class, and 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, 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.
The boy’s parents thought their son should be excused mainly because________.
选项 A、teachers should be compassionate
B、he was only a child
C、instructors were wiser
D、he was threatened
答案B
解析 本题关键词是boy和parents，问题是男孩的父母认为他们的儿子应该被原谅的主要原因是什么。可以定位到第五段。第五段前两句说那位剽窃的男孩被老师带到教学主任面前，他的父母也在场，主任也认为该男孩的行为已经构成剽窃。第三句提到，他的父母抗议说：“他只是个孩子”，我们当老师的当然更加聪慧(wiser)，也应该富有同情心(compassionate)。但从第四句话可以看出作者的观点是，大学生早就不是孩子了(not really children)，也不应该以年纪小为理由来为自己的剽窃行为找借口，因此，选项B与原文一致，是正确答案。虽然选项A、C也是原因，但是这两点是父母自以为是的理由，所以这两个选项是次要原因，不是主要原因，可以排除。选项D无中生有，原文并没有提到“威胁”。第四段：当被查证剽窃时，学生矢口否认。第五段：面对学生的剽窃，家长却表现出纵容的态度。
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