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Last year, one group of students in Taiwan did just that. They took chances-and ended up in jail. More than 20 students paid a c

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问题     Last year, one group of students in Taiwan did just that. They took chances-and ended up in jail. More than 20 students paid a cram school owner to help them cheat on Taiwan’s entrance exam, according to police. The students received answers to test questions through cell phones and other electronic devices. Taiwan isn’t the only place in Asia to see major cheating scandals. In both India and South Korea, college entrance exams have been stolen and sold to students.
    Academic cheating has risen dramatically over the last decade. Duke University conducted a survey of 50,000 university and 18,000 high school students in America. More than 70 percent of the students admitted cheating. Just 10 years earlier, only 56 percent said they had cheated. This trend extends far beyond the U. S., too. In Asia, where students face intense pressure to excel, the cheating problem is especially pronounced.  In many Asian countries, a student’s performance is measured mostly by exam scores.  And admission to a top school depends on acing standardized tests. This test-driven culture makes cheating an easy way for students to get ahead in a super-competitive academic system.
    But the pressure to perform well on tests isn’t the only thing turning students into cheaters. For one, new technology makes cheating easier than ever. Students now have more sophisticated options than just "cheat sheets" hidden in pencil boxes. Today’s tech-smart students use text-messaging to discreetly send each other test answers. They post questions from standardized tests on internet bulletin boards. Students in Asia, for example, have posted questions from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the Graduate Record Exam (GRE).
    Deeper issues than technology and testing, however, may be leading to the rise in academic dishonesty. Both students and educators say that society offers too many negative role models. Businesspeople make millions and scientists eam intemational acclaim by cheating and lying. The case of Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk offers one powerful example. He faked the results of his stem cell research and became a national hero. From many sectors of society, the message to students is loud and clear: Cheating is an easy way to get ahead.
    Victoria Lin, a high school teacher in Taichung, says educators must begin to stress integrity as well as achievement in academics. That’s what she tries to instill in her students. "I always tell my students, ’How much is your character worth? 100 points? 90 points?’" Jerry Chang, a student at Taiwan’s Oriental Institute of Technology, also has words of advice for classmates he sees cheating. "When you cheat on exams, you only cheat yourself," he says, "because you won’t know how much you’ve really learned."  
What does the word "acing" most probably mean?
选项 A、Extraordinarily good.
B、Hardly satisfactory.
C、Barely passing.
D、Middling.
答案A
解析 词义题；对这种问题，我们需要始终结合上下文来看。而这里我们需要选择的是用来修饰考试成绩的一个限定词。我们向前去寻找答案，在这个段落的前面我们找到“students face intense pressure to excel”这样一句话，这里出现的excel其实和我们要寻找的 acing的意思是类似的。如果有些考生对于excel的含义不清楚，结合后面“a student’s performance is measured mostly by exam scores”来分析，既然学生的表现主要是由考试成绩来决定的，那么考生需要什么样的成绩也就很清楚了，B、C和D选项所表达的差强人意、勉强通过和中游水平的成绩都是明显不够的，而A选项所表达的极其出色的成绩才是本题的正确答案。
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