三、英语阅读理解题 You're busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; let's assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn't it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University? More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week. Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant's lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them impostors; another refers to them as special cases. One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by no such people. To avoid outright lies, some job-seekers claim that they attended or were associated with a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that attending means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that being associated with a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century-that's when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of non-existent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from Smoot State University. The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the University of Purdue. As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
1. The main idea of this passage is that______.
A.employers are checking more closely on applicants now
B.lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem
C.college degrees can now be purchased easily
D.employers are no longer interested in college degrees
A B C D
B
[解析] 本道题考查的是文章主旨的判断。第一段通过讨论现象，引出第二段的主旨句。More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to 1and their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools.根据More and more推断出一个widespread problem。所以答案是B。
2. According to the passage, special cases refer to cases where ______.
A.students attend a school only part-time
B.students never attended a school they listed on their application
C.students purchase false degrees from commercial films
D.students attended a famous school
A B C D
C
[解析] 本道题考查的是具体细节信息判断。文章中第三段Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant's lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them impostors; another refers to them as special cases.可以判断出special cases指的是false degrees。所以答案是C。
3. We can infer from the passage that ______.
A.performance is a better judge of ability that a college degree
B.experience is the best teacher
C.past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees do
D.a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job petition
A B C D
D
[解析] 本道题考查的是细节推断。value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway. but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university.可以推出名校学历对于一个求职者而言在就业竞争中赢得更多的机会。所以答案是D。
4. This passage implies that______.
A.buying a false degree is not moral
B.personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schools
C.most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from school
D.society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications
A B C D
D
[解析] 本道题关键句是As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.由此可以推断出文章其实暗含着社会应该倡导诚信风气。所以答案应该是D。
5. As used in the first line of the second paragraph, the word utter means______.
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