Cheating is nothing new. But today, educators are finding that academic dishonesty on the part of students has become more frequent and they are less likely to be punished than in the past. Cheating appears to have gained acceptance among good and poor students.

       Why is student cheating on the rise? No one really knows. Some blame that today’s youth are far more practical. In the late sixties and early seventies, students were filled with visions about changing the world, while today’s students feel great pressure to obey and succeed. In interviews with students at high schools and colleges around the country, both young men and women said that cheating had become easy. Some suggested they did it due to the teachers they did not respect. Others looked at it as a game. Only if they were caught, some said, would they feel guilty. “People are competitive,” said a second-year college student named Anna, from Chicago. There’s an inner fear. If you don’t do well, your life is going to be ruined. The pressure is not only from parents and friends but from yourself. To achieve, to succeed. It’s almost as though we have to outdo (胜过) other people to achieve our own goals.

       Edward Wynne, editor of a magazine blames the rise in academic dishonesty on the schools. He claims that teachers have been too hesitant to take action. Dwight Huber, chairman of the English department at Amarillo sees the matter differently, blaming the rise in cheating on the way students are evaluated (评价). “I would cheat if I felt I was being cheated,” Mr. Huber said. He feels that as long as teachers give short-answer tests rather than essay questions and evaluate students by the number of facts they can memorize rather than by how well they can combine information, students will try to beat the system. “The concept of cheating is based on the false assumption that the system is legitimate (合法的) and there is something wrong with the individual who’s doing it,” he said, “That’s too easy an answer. We’ve got to start looking at the system.”

67.   Educators are finding that students who cheat         .

       A. have poor academic records

       B. use the information in later years

       C. can be academically weak or strong 

       D. are more likely to be punished than before     

68.   Today’s youth are described as more practical because         .

       A. they think more of themselves 

       B. they don’t have a global vision

       C. the time of ideal has passed     

       D. they cheat more than before

69.   According to the passage, youth cheat because of         .

       A. the easiness to test

       B. the eagerness to succeed

C. their fear of competition  

       D. no possibility to be punished

70.   What does “the system” (Paragraph 3) refer to?

       A. The education system.            

       B. The school system.

       C. The system by which students are evaluated.

       D. The system by which schools punish cheating.