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題干：“Ipromise.”“Isweartoyouit，11neverhappenagain.”“Igiveyoumyword.”“Honestly.Believeme.”Sure,Itrust.Whynot?IteachEnglishcompositionataprivatecollege.Withacertainexcitementandintensity，Ireadmystudents，essays,hopingtofindthepersonbehindthepen.Aseachsemesterprogresses,plagiarism(剽竊)appears.NotonlyismyintelligenceinsultedasoneassumesIwon'tdetectapolishedpieceofprosefromanotherwise-averagewriter,butIfeelasadnessthatastudenthasresortedtobuyingapaperfromapeer.Writershavestyleslikefingerprintsandafterseveralassignments,Icanmatchastudent'sworkwithhisorhernameevenifit’smissingfromtheupperleft-handcorner.Whyislearninglessimportantthanahighergrade-pointaverage(GPA)？Whenwe’rethreatenedorsick，wemakeconditionalpromises.“IfyouletmepassmathIwill…”“Lord，ifyougetmeoverthisbeforethebighomecominggameI’11…”O(jiān)ncethesituationisbehindus，soarethepromises.Humannature?Perhaps,butwedousethatcliche(陳詞濫調(diào))togetusoutofuncomfortablebargains.Divineinterferenceduringdistressisasked；gratitudeisunpaid.Afterall,fewfulfillthecontract,sowhyshouldanyonebetheexception.Whynot?Sixyearsago,Itookastudentbeforethedean.HehadturnedinanessaywiththevocabularyandsentencestructureofPhDthesis.Upuntilthattime，bothhisout-of-classandin-classworkwereborderlinepassing.Iquestionedthepersonregardinghisessayandhesworeitwashisownwork.Igavehimtheidenticalassignmentandtoldhimtowriteinclass，andthatI，dunderstandthiscopywouldnothavethetimeandattentionanout-of-classpaperisgiven,buthehadalreadyafinishedpiecesoheunderstoodwhatwasasked.Hesatonehour,thenturnedinpartofapageofunskilledwritingandfaultylogic.Iconfrontedhimwithbothessays.“Ipromise…,I’mnotlying.IsweartoyouthatIwrotetheessay.I’mjustnervoustoday.”TheheadoftheEnglishdepartmentagreedwithmyfinding，andthemeetingwiththedeanhadtheboy’sparentspresent.Afteranhourofdiscussion,touchingoneightoftheboy,spreviousessaysandhisgrade-pointaverage,whichindicatedhewasalreadyonacademicprobation(留校察看)，thedeanagreedthatthestudenthadplagiarized.Hisparentsprotested,“He'sonlyachild”andweinstructorsarewiserandshouldbecompassionate.Collegepeoplearenotreallychildrenandmosttimeswouldresentbeinglabeledassuch…exceptinthisuncomfortablecircumstance.
題目：The sentence “Once the situation is behind us, so are the promises” implies that_____. - A 、students usually keep their promises
- B 、some students tend to break their promises
- C 、the promises are always behind the situation
- D 、we can not judge the situation in advance，as we do to the promises
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參考答案【正確答案：B】
語義題。Once the situation is behind us, so are the promises 意, 思是“一旦時過境遷，承諾也就拋在腦后了”。這句話中為了避免重復，用so來代替behind us表示重復前面的話。此外，根據(jù) few fulfill the contract 也可以推斷 students usually keep their promises, B 選項為正確答案。
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