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  3. "I promise.""! swear to you it’ll never happen again.""l give you my word""Honestly-Believe me." sure, I trust. Why not? I teach

"I promise.""! swear to you it’ll never happen again.""l give you my word""Honestly-Believe me." sure, I trust. Why not? I teach

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问题     "I promise.""! swear to you it’ll never happen again.""l give you my word""Honestly-Believe me." sure, I trust. Why not? I teach English composition at a private college. With a certain excitement and intensity, I read my students’ essays,hoping to find the person behind the pen. As each semester progresses, plagiarism appears. Not only is my intelligence insulted as one assumes I won’t detect a polished piece of prose from an otherwise-average writer,but I feel a sadness that a student has resorted to buying a paper from a peer. Writers have styles like fingerprints and after several assignments,! can match a student’s work with his or her name even if it’s missing from the upper left-hand corner.
    Why is learning less important than a higher grade-point average(GPA)? When we’re threatened or sick,we make conditional promises. "If you let me pass math I will... .""Lord,if you get me over this before the big homecoming game I’II..."Once the situation is behind us so are the promises. Human nature? Perhaps, but we do use that click to get us out of uncomfortable bargains. Divine interference during distress is asked; gratitude is unpaid. After all. few fulfill the contract so why should anyone be the exception. Why not?
    Six years ago, I took a student before the dean. He had turned in an essay with the vocabulary and sentence structure of PhD thesis up until that time,both his out-of-class and in-class work were borderline passing.
    I questioned the person regarding his essay and he swore it I’d understand this copy would not have the time and attention an out-of-class paper is given, but he had already a finished piece so he understood what was asked. He sat one hour,then turned in part of a page of unskilled writing and faulty logic. I confronted him with both essays.
    "I promise...!’II not lying. I swear to you that I wrote the essay. I’m just nervous today."
    The head of the English department agreed with my finding,and the meeting with the dean had the boy’s parents present After an hour of discussion touching on eight of the boy’s previous essays and his grade-point average,which indicted he was already on academic probation(留校查看),the dean agreed that the student had plagiarized. His parents protested. "He’s only a child"and we instructors are wiser and should be compassionate. College people are not really children and most times would resent being labeled as such...Except in this uncomfortable circumstance.
The"borderline passing"(Line 3 Para3)probably means____.
选项 A、fairly good
B、extremely poor
C、above average
D、below average
答案D
解析 文章第四段“He had turned in an essay with the vocabulary and sentence structure of PhD thesis．up until that time，both his out-of-class and in-class work were borderline passing．”直到那个时间以前，他上交了一篇具有博士学位词汇和句子的散文，由时间前后的对比，可以推断以前他的功课可能不好，即“borderline passing”是个贬义词。排除A、C，但又因为“passing”是通过，及格的意思，所以这里应该表示刚好通过分数，B项语气太强烈，所以应该选D。
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