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

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

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问题     "I promise." "I swear to you it’ll never happen again." "I 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 another wise-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, I 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’ll…" Once the situation is behind us, so are the promises. Human nature? Perhaps, but we do use that cliche 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 was his own work. I gave him the identical assignment and told him to write it in class, and 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… I’m 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 indicated he was already on academic probation, 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 sentence in Paragraph 2 "Once the situation is behind us, so are the promises" implies that
选项 A、students usually keep their promises
B、some students tend to break their promises
C、the promises are always behind the situation
D、we cannot judge the situation in advance, as we do to the promises
答案B
解析 本题关键词就是双引号内的句子，问题是“一旦事情过去，承诺也就成了空话”这句话暗示了什么。根据本题引用的原文可以定位到第二段。根据第二段，“如果你让我通过数学考试，我就(I will)……”“上帝，如果让我在返校节之前搞定这个，我就(I will)……”一旦事情过去，承诺也就成了空话。人性使然吗?也许吧，但是我们确实用这些陈词滥调来让自己摆脱不爽的承诺(uncomfortable bargains)。在苦恼中寻求神的庇护；事后却不奉上(unpaid)感激。即人们总是在需要的时候做出承诺，一旦事情过去，就会把承诺抛到一边，换句话说，也就是学生往往会违背承诺(break their promises)，因此选项B和原文是相同含义，是正确选项。选项A属于正反混淆；选项C曲解文意；选项D属于无中生有，原文并没有涉及提前判断形势的信息。
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