Over the past decade, cheating—an act of academic dishonesty—has become more and more common.
The latest statistics shows more than two thirds of high school students admitted cheating on an exam last year, and—even more surprising—often the best students cheat to get to the top of their class—and they don’t think it is wrong. It’s not a big deal. Everybody is doing it.
It is a big deal! Cheating is basically wrong and must be punished.
If students easily get away with it, they might be encouraged to do it again. They won’t realize that this—in the broadest sense—is an attack on our society, which is based on values like honesty and fairness. The present spreading of cheating indicates a loss of those values and cannot be tolerated. An appropriate punishment for cheating incidents would make students aware of their misbehavior.
If no one were punished for cheating, who would ever study for an exam? Tons of papers would be lifted from websites, writing crib sheets would be more important than reviewing the subjects, and highly sophisticated cheating arts would be invented. Knowledge would only exist on the Internet and on cleverly created cheat sheets, but not in the minds of the students—a rather bad precondition to enrich our society wisely and intelligently.
Students have to learn that they have to learn. Only doing what’s right will bring them a feeling of pride and accomplishment and create self-confidence—the building blocks for a successful and satisfying life and a society that keeps its values.
小题1:What is more surprising is that .
A．cheating is very common in schools
B．over 2/3 of the students cheat last year
C．even the best students cheat on exams
D．teachers are not aware of the problems小题2:How do they make the students realize their misbehavior?
A．By letting them getting away with it.
B．By telling them what is right.
C．By catching them on the spot.
D．By giving them some punishment.小题3:How can students create self-confidence?
A．By knowing they have to learn.
B．By doing what is right.
C．By learning the right things.
D．By being punished when cheating.小题4:What does the underlined word “lifted” mean?
A．taken
B．removed
C．copied
D．written
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:C
题目分析：文章介绍现在很多学生喜欢作弊的现状，惩罚可以让学生意识到自己的错误的行为。作者建议通过做对的事情，学生可以建立自信。
小题1:细节题：从第二段的句子：and—even more surprising—often the best students cheat to get to the top of their class—and they don’t think it is wrong.可知让人最惊讶的是甚至最好的学生也作弊。选C
小题2:细节题：从第四段的句子：An appropriate punishment for cheating incidents would make students aware of their misbehavior.可知惩罚可以让学生意识到自己的错误的行为。选D
小题3:细节题：从最后一段的句子：Only doing what’s right will bring them a feeling of pride and accomplishment and create self-confidence 可知通过做对的事情，学生可以建立自信。选B
小题4:猜词题：句意：很多试卷可以从网上复制。选C
点评：本文考查细节题为主，细节题可以在文章中直接找到与答案有关的信息或是其变体。搜查信息在阅读中非常重要它包括理解作者在叙述某事时使用的具体事实、数据、图表等细节信息。在一篇短文里大部分篇幅都属于这类围绕主体展开的细节。做这类题一般采用寻读法即先读题，然后带着问题快速阅读短文，找出与问题有关的词语或句子，再对相关部分进行分析对比，找出答案。
