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You are busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let''s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn''t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University? More and more people are resorting to outright deception like this to land their first job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from prestige schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway , but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with fraudulent claims like these at the rate of about one per week.
Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms. Then, if it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them "impostors" ; another refers to them as "special cases". One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by "no such people".
To avoid outright lies, some job-seekers claim that they "attended" or "were associated with" a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that "attending" means flunking out after one semester. It may be that " being associated with" a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century—that''s when they began keeping records, anyhow.
If you don''t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phoney diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from "Smoot State University". The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the "University of Pudue". As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Pudue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
单选题
The main idea of this passage is that______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】本题译文：文章的主要大意是______。主旨题。依据文章中第一段第三句“Isn''t it temp-timg to lie just a little，to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree?”由此可判断出 很多人都愿意作假成绩。因此选项B为正确答案。
单选题
According to the passage, the "special cases" refers to______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】本题译文：依据文章，“special cases”指的是______。细节理解题。依据文章中第二段中“Then，if it turns out that an applicant is lying，…another refers to them as special cases．”说明“special cases”就是指那些作假成绩的人，因此，选项B的内容与之相符合，为正确答案。
单选题
We can conclude from the passage that______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】本题译文：我们从文章中可推断出______。推断综合总结题。学生作假问题普通存在，如何解决呢?在文章第三段中提到“some job—seekers claim that they attended or were associated with a college．”因此，一个人的表现与一个大学文凭能更好地判断人的能力。因此，选项A为正确答案。
单选题
The passage suggests that______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】本题译文：文章指出______。综合判断题。依据文章中最后一段提到“If you don''t want to lie or even stretch the truth，there are companies that will sell you a phony diploma．”说明社会上还有人在帮助大学生作假；因此，选项D的内容与之相符合，为正确答案。
单选题
As used in this passage, the word "fraudulent" means______.