单选题 Last year, one group of students in Taiwan did just that. They took chances-and ended up in jail. More than 20 students paid a cram school owner to help them cheat on Taiwan's entrance exam, according to police. The students received answers to test questions through cell phones and other electronic devices. Taiwan isn't the only place in Asia to see major cheating scandals. In both India and South Korea, college entrance exams have been stolen and sold to students.
Academic cheating has risen dramatically over the last decade. Duke University conducted a survey of 50,000 university and 18,000 high school students in America. More than 70 percent of the students admitted cheating. Just 10 years earlier, only 56 percent said they had cheated. This trend extends far beyond the U. S., too. In Asia, where students face intense pressure to excel, the cheating problem is especially pronounced. In many Asian countries, a student's performance is measured mostly by exam scores. And admission to a top school depends on acing standardized tests. This test-driven culture makes cheating an easy way for students to get ahead in a super-competitive academic system.
But the pressure to perform well on tests isn't the only thing turning students into cheaters. For one, new technology makes cheating easier than ever. Students now have more sophisticated options than just "cheat sheets" hidden in pencil boxes. Today's tech-smart students use text-messaging to discreetly send each other test answers. They post questions from standardized tests on internet bulletin boards. Students in Asia, for example, have posted questions from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the Graduate Record Exam (GRE).
Deeper issues than technology and testing, however, may be leading to the rise in academic dishonesty. Both students and educators say that society offers too many negative role models. Businesspeople make millions and scientists eam intemational acclaim by cheating and lying. The case of Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk offers one powerful example. He faked the results of his stem cell research and became a national hero. From many sectors of society, the message to students is loud and clear: Cheating is an easy way to get ahead.
Victoria Lin, a high school teacher in Taichung, says educators must begin to stress integrity as well as achievement in academics. That's what she tries to instill in her students. "I always tell my students, 'How much is your character worth? 100 points? 90 points?'" Jerry Chang, a student at Taiwan's Oriental Institute of Technology, also has words of advice for classmates he sees cheating. "When you cheat on exams, you only cheat yourself," he says, "because you won't know how much you've really learned./

单选题 The example mentioned in paragraph 1 means to ______.
[A] criticize the cram school for their poor education qualities
[B] highlight the seriousness of cheating in Taiwan
[C] show how prevalent the problem of cheating is
[D] show sympathy for those who cheated
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 例证题；需要提醒考生注意的是，在考研阅读理解的命题过程中，很多题目都和文章的主旨相关。比如这个题目，作为文章手段的例证题，其实所论证的是全篇文章的中心。A选项偏离了中心，补习学校确实是参与作弊的单位，但是文章的主要目的不是为了批评补习学校的教学质量，而是集中论述作弊这种行为本身，A选项属于“擦边状态”，接触到了主旨，但没有点对，是需要排除的选项。B选项和C选项都直接提到了作弊这种行为本身，但比较阅读之后，我们发现，B和C最主要的区别在于B选项中in Taiwan这样一个限定成分。而从原文中我们可以看到，虽然例子本身出现在台湾，但是第一段的最后两句话已经明确告诉我们这种现象不是台湾独有的。所以作者要论述的是作弊现象本身，而不局限于台湾地区。所以B选项应该排除，C选项才是正确的答案。D选项属于主观观点的表述，在原文中找不到依据，是需要排除的干扰选项。
单选题 What does the word "acing" most probably mean?
[A] Extraordinarily good. [B] Hardly satisfactory.
[C] Barely passing. [D] Middling.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 词义题；对这种问题，我们需要始终结合上下文来看。而这里我们需要选择的是用来修饰考试成绩的一个限定词。我们向前去寻找答案，在这个段落的前面我们找到“students face intense pressure to excel”这样一句话，这里出现的excel其实和我们要寻找的 acing的意思是类似的。如果有些考生对于excel的含义不清楚，结合后面“a student's performance is measured mostly by exam scores”来分析，既然学生的表现主要是由考试成绩来决定的，那么考生需要什么样的成绩也就很清楚了，B、C和D选项所表达的差强人意、勉强通过和中游水平的成绩都是明显不够的，而A选项所表达的极其出色的成绩才是本题的正确答案。
单选题 In paragraph 3, the author focuses on the factor of ______.
[A] pressures related to tests [B] advanced technologies
[C] sophistication of students [D] standardized tests
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 段落主旨题；误选A选项的考生在篇章阅读的基本技能方面还需要提高。这个段落的第一句话确实提到了pressure，但我们需要知道的是，段落的大意最有可能出现在段落的第1、2句或者最后一句。而这个段落就是段落主旨出现在第二句的典型代表，因为段落的第一句用来做过渡，其中所涉及的pressures是前面一段的内容，而非本段。本段的主旨出现在第二段里所提到的technology，也就是说B选项是正确的。C选项误读了原文出现的sophisticated options，原文说的是作弊可选的技术手段，而C选项说成了考生自己的复杂，是应该排除的。D选项涉及standardized tests，这个段落是讲考试作弊的一个原因，而不是指责考试本身，所以D选项也是需要排除的。
单选题 The example of Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk is quoted to ______.
[A] shift to topic from students' cheating to academic dishonesty
[B] attribute the problem of cheating to the negative examples in our society
[C] compare businesspeople and scientists in cheating scandals
[D] blame technology as the most important reason for cheating
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 例证题；与第一题和全文的主旨相关不同的是，这个题目的例子是为段落大意服务的。整个第四段在讨论的问题在段落的第二句话出现，也就是“society offers too many negative role models”这一部分。A选项所涉及的academic dishonesty 是社会提供负面影响的结果，而社会的负面影响才是问题的关键，也就是说B选项的表述是正确的。C选项里所出现的businesspeople和scientists都是用来说明社会所提供的负面影响，而两者之间的比较是不存在的，C应该排除。D选项所涉及的是之前的段落中出现的，而不是这个段落的大意，也是需要排除的。
单选题 What is the suggestion given in the last paragraph to tackle the problem of cheating?
[A] The teaching of values should be given equal, if not higher, priority.
[B] Teachers should avoid talking about students test scores too much.
[C] Educators should have a reasonable expectation for students' scores.
[D] School should add integrity as part of the test scores.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 段落主旨题；文章的最后一段对于如何解决作弊的问题提出了自己的建议。而建议的主要内容在最后一段的第一句话中就出现了，也就是integrity，品德教育的重要性。 A选项正确地归纳了这一点，是正确选项。B选项提到的分数在原文中确实出现了，但这是老师用来表明品德教育的重要性，说明品德不是可以用分数来交换的，所以B选项也是需要排除的。C选项的错误和B选项是类似的，也需要排除。D选项则比原文表达的意思多走了一步，原文提到了品德教育的重要性，但是并没有说要把品德作为考试分数的一部分。