Cheating is nothing new. But today, educators and administrators are finding that instances of academic dishonesty on the part of students have become more frequent—and are less likely to be punished—than in the past. Cheating appears to have gained acceptance among good and poor students alike.
Why is student cheating on the rise? No one really knows. Some blame the trend on a general loosening of moral values among today's youth. Others have attributed increased cheating to the fact that today's youth are far more pragmatic（实用主义的）than their more idealistic predecessors. Whereas in the late sixties and early seventies，students were filled with visions about changing the world, today's students feel great pressure to conform and succeed. In interviews with students at high schools and colleges around the country, both young men and women said that cheating had become easy. Some suggested they did it out of spite for teachers they did not respect. Others looked at it as a game. Only if they were caught, some said, would they feel guilty. “People are competitive,” said a second-year college student named Anna, from Chicago. There's an underlying fear. If you don't do well, your life is going to be ruined. The pressure is not only form parents and friends but from oneself. To achieve. To succeed. It's almost as though we have to outdo other people to achieve our own goals.
Edward Wynne, a magazine editor, blames the rise in academic dishonesty on the schools. He claims that administrators and teachers have been too hesitant to take action. Dwight Huber, chairman of the English department at Amarillo, sees the matter differently, blaming the rise in cheating on the way students are evaluated. “I would cheat if I felt I was being cheated,” Mr. Huber said. He feels that as long as teachers gives short-answer tests rather than essay questions and rate students by the number of facts they can memorize rather than by how well they can put information together, students will try to beat the system. “The concept of cheating is based on the false assumption that the system is legitimate and there is something wrong with the individual who are doing it,” he said. “That's too easy an answer. We've got to start looking at the system.”
Educators are finding that students who cheat ________.
第一段第二句提到，“But today, educators and administrators are finding that instances of academic dishonesty on the part of students have become more frequent”可见，当今的学生越来越倾向于通过作弊来取得成绩，故B为答案。
According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
根据全文来看，关于学生为什么越来越倾向于作弊有不同的讨 论，有人声称是因为学生的道德水准不断下降，有人说是社会压力太 大，有人说是学校教育系统的问题，可见关于作弊的原因是没有定论 的，只能说作弊这一行为可能有更深刻的社会原因，因此C为正确答案。
Which of the following points of view would Mr. Huber agree with?
根据文章最后一段第三句中“Dwight Huber, chairman of the English department at Amarillo, sees the matter differently, blaming the rise in cheating on the way students are evaluated”可知，Huber认为作弊 是由于学校对学生评价不准确导致的，因此Huber最可能支持对教学 系统的改革可以有效减少作弊这一观点，故A为正确答案。
The expression “the individuals” (the last paragraph) refers to ________.
根据文章最后一句“The concept of cheating is based on the false assumption that the system is legitimate and there is something wrong with the individual who are doing it,” he said. “That's too easy an answer. We've got to start looking at the system”，原文是说作弊这个概念是建 立在系统合理，作弊的人有错的基础之上的，可知这里的individual指 的是有错的人，即作弊的人，因此选B。
The passage mainly discusses ________.
根据全文内容来看，首段首先提出观点即作弊人数不断上涨， 二三段均讨论了对于学生为何作弊的不同观点，可知全文的主要内容 是围绕学生为何作弊而展开讨论的，因此B为正确选项。