单选题 Passage Three
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[听力原文] 32-35
Cheating:The income tax deadline approaches and some taxpayer's thoughts turn to it.Test time approaches and some students’thoughts turn to it.
“You want something you can’t get by behaving within the rules,and you want it badly enough you’ll do it regardless of any guilt or deep regret,and you’re willing to run the risk of being caught.”That’s how Ladd Wheeler, psychology professor at the University of Rochester in New York,defines cheating.
Many experts believe cheating is on the rise.“We’re suffering a moral breakdown.”Pinkard says.We’re seeing more of the kind of person who regards the world as a series of things to be dealt with.Whether to cheat depends on whether it's the person's interest.He does,however,see less cheating among the youngest students.
Richard Diensbier,psychology professor at the University ofNebraska in Lincoln,believes that society's attitudes account for much ofthe increase in cheating.
“Twenty years ago,if a person cheated in college,society said:That is extremely serious,you will be dropped for a term if not kicked out permanently,”he says.“Nowadays,at the University of Nebraska,for example,it is the stated policy of the College of Arts and Sciences that if a student cheats on an exam,the stude—n——t—must receive an‘F’ on what he cheated on.That's nothing.If you’re going to fail,why not cheat?”
"Cheating is most likely in situations where the vital interests are high and the chances of getting caught are low." says social psychologist,Lynn Kahle of the University of Oregon in Eugene.

32. What does the passage mainly talk about?

主旨题。文章先指出为什么会作弊,然后指出现在作弊现象增多,并以心理学教授的分析为根据,列举导致作弊行为的心理原因,指出近年来作弊现象增多的原因在于惩罚力度较轻,可见文章通篇是在分析作弊的原因,所以B正确。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[听力原文]
Which ofthe following is true according to the passage?

信息明示题。文章第二段第一句指出,如果你非常想得到某事物,以至于可以不顾自己的负罪感和悔恨,那么你就会甘愿冒着被抓到的风险而作弊,所以D“作弊者不顾负罪感和悔恨”是正确的。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[听力原文] What canbeinferredfromthepassage?

综合推断题。文章第四段提到,理查德·迪恩斯比尔教授认为社会对作弊现象的态度是作弊现象增加的主要原因,第五段又说惩罚太轻微也导致了作弊现象的增加,所以A正确。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[听力原文] When does cheating tend to occur?

信息明示题。文章最后一段指出,作弊在利害关系很大而被抓到的可能性又小的情况下最有可能发生,所以C正确。这里的interests指“利益”。