Question

14．You are busy filling out the application form for a position you really need； lets 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 （文凭）represents a Harvard degree？Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University？
More and more people are turning to an utter deception （欺骗）like this to land their first 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（学籍管 理员）at most well-known colleges say that they deal with dishonest claims like these at the rate of about one per week．
Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms．If it turns out that an applicant is lying，most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly．One Ivy League school refers to them as"special cases．"One well-known West Coast school，in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all，says these claims are made by"no such people．"
To avoid complete lies，some job seekers claim that they"attended"or"were associated with"a college or university．After careful 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 fake diploma．One company，with offices in New York and on the West Coast，will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent 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 is properly called Purdue University，the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper．
68．The writer mainly wants to tell us thatC，
A．college degrees can now be purchased easily
B．nowadays it is very hard for people to find jobs
C．lying about college degrees is becoming a widespread problem
D．employers are no longer interested in applicants'actual performances
69．As used in the first line of the second paragraph，the word"utter"meansA
A．thorough B．careful C．incomplete D．spoken
70．Once finding applicants with false diplomas，most colleges would．C
A．keep the records of them
B．drive the them out of college
C．avoid direct conflicts with them
D．accuse them of such behaviors
71•We can Ieam from the passage thatA．
A．US employers value their job applicants with a degree from top universities
B．University of Purdue and Purdue University are the same school
C．people with fake diplomas can get their first jobs in US easily
D．people pay the same price for a fake diploma from different universities．

Answer 1

分析 文章主要讲了越来越多的人在求职时使用假学历，结果使用假学历已经成为一种普遍的问题．

解答 68：C  主旨题．文章主要讲了越来越多的人在求职时使用假学历，因此使用假学历已经成为一种普遍的问题，所以C项正确．而A、B、D项均没有提到假学历的问题，所以A、B、D项错误．故正确答案为C．
69：A  由文章第一段可知伪造学历是一种彻底的造假行为，即造假者从未接受过相应程度的教育，由此可推断第二段第一句中的"an utter deception"指的是彻底的欺骗，故正确答案为A．
70：C  细节题．由第三段第二句"If it turns out that an applicant is lying，most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly．"可知大学不愿意与造假者产生直接的冲突，故正确答案为C．
71：A  推断题．由第二段第三句"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．"可知A项符合文意．B项，由最后一段最后一句"The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the'University of Purdue'．As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University，"可知B项错误．C项，文中没有相关内容，所以C项错误．D项，由最后一段最后两句"The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the"University of Purdue"．As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University，the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper．"可知D项错误．故正确答案为A．

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