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25. Jeroo Billimoria is most likely to agree thatcommercial and social pressures makeone's purchasing decisions________.
A. difficultB.feasible
C. unwiseD. acceptable
Passage Two
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 gainedacceptance 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 attributedincreased 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 greatpressure to conform and succeed. In interviews with students at high schools andcolleges around the country, both young men and women said that cheating had becomeeasy. Some suggested they did it out of spite for teachers they did not respect. Others looked at it as a game. Only if they
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were caught, some said, would they feel guilty.\second-yearcollege student named Anna, fromChicago. 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 matterdifferently, blaming the rise in cheating on the way students are evaluated. \as long as teachers gives short-answer testsrather 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. \cheating is based on the false assumption that the system is legitimate and there is something wrong withthe individual who are doing it,\answer. We've got to start looking at the system.\
26. Educators are finding that students who cheat_______.
A. are not only those academically weak
B. tend to be dishonest in later years
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C.are more likely to be punished than before
D. have poor academic records
27. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A. Reform in the testing system will eliminate cheating.
B. Punishment is an effective method to stop cheating . .
C. Students' cheating has deep social roots.
D. Students do not cheat on essay tests.
28. Which of the following points of view would Mr. Huberagree with ?
A. Cheating would be reduced through an educational reform.
B. Students who cheat should be expelled from school.
C. Punishment for cheaters should be severe in this country.
D. Parents must take responsibility for the rise in cheating.
29. The expression \
A. school administrators
B. students who cheat
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C. parents
D. teachers
30. The passage mainly discusses_______
A: ways to eliminate academic dishonesty
B: factors leading to academic dishonesty
C: the decline of moral standards of today's youth
D: people's tolerance of students' cheating
Passage Three
Last week, I read a story about a 34-year-old British woman who is extremely afraid of metal forks. She's been using plastic ones for 17 years because the sound of a fork rubbing against a plate g:ives her a panic attack.
Strange, right? But she's not alone. While popular phobias(恐惧症) about snakes and spiders might get all of the attention, there are a wide variety of not-so-obvious horrors that make people nervous.
While some phobias might seem a bit silly, they can cause serious emotional distress. My co-worker Magda is terrified of pigeons, a phobia that is taking over her life. She won't walk in certain parts of the city and runs screaming from the
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subway when one of these \Another friend isdisgusted with cheese. Once I saw her run away from a slice of it. So where does anirrational fear of cheese come from?
Are phobias something we inherit from our genes or do we acquire these unusualanxieties over time?
Ever since I can remember I have been unreasonably frightened of elevators. Therewas no terrible childhood experience and I am fine with confined spaces, but something about elevators makes me nervous. And so, when my boyfriend and I found ourselvestrapped in an elevator last year - because these sorts of things always happen eventually- I was anticipating the worst.
While he gave me a suggestive eyebrow raise and proposed we \
advantage ofthe situation,\on by the wholefacing my worst nightmare thing.
However, after the fear subsided(消退)I realized that, yes, this was my greatest fear come true, and yet - it wasn't all that bad. Nervous and inconvenient maybe, butterrifying? Not so much.
Liberating yourself from a deep-seated phobia can be a long and difficult process,but sometimes it can be as simple as confronting it head on.
31. The 34-year-old British woman is extremelyafraid of metal forks because