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1、 2022在职研究生联考英语阅读精讲篇Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week. Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse t
2、he applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them “impostors (骗子)” ; another refers to them as “ special cases”. One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by “no such people”. To avoid outright (彻底的) lies, some job-seekers cla
3、im that they “ attended” or “ were associated with” a college or university. After carefully 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 fo
4、r a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the centurythats when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you dont want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony diploma.One compan
5、y, 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
6、Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.1. The main idea of this passage is that _.A. employers are checking more closely on applicants nowB. lying about college degrees has become a widespread problemC. coll
7、ege degrees can now be purchased easilyD. employers are no longer interested in college degrees2. According to the passage, “special eases” refers to cases that _.A. students attend a school only part-timeB. students never attended a school they listed on their applicationC. students purchase false
8、degrees from commercial firmsD. students attended a famous school3. We can infer from the passage that _.A. performance is a better judge of ability than a college degreeB. experience is the best teacherC. past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees doD. a degree from a famous
9、 school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job competition4. This passage implies that _.A. buying a false degree is not moralB. personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schoolsC. most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from schoolD. society shou
10、ld be greatly responsible for lying on applications5. The word “phony” (Para. 2) means _.A. thorough C. false B. ultimate D. decisive答案：1. B。文章第一段简要概述了求职人员在求职过程中对自己的学历弄虚作假这一社会现象，然后在其次、三段分别给出一些详细的例子进展说明，所以B正确。，2. B。由其次段中前半局部的If it turns out that an applicant is lyingschool calls them “impostors”；anot
11、her refers to them as “special cases”可知，imposters和special cases指的都是编造虚假学历，所以B正确。3. D。由文章第一段倒数其次句中的for personnel officers，like most Americans，value degrees from famous schools可知，大学的毕业生在求职过程中比其他人有优势，所以D正确。4. D。文章叙述的是在简历中对学历弄虚作假这一问题，同时也指出，问题消失的缘由是大家都很看重学历，特殊是大学的文凭，由此可知，这是一种社会现象，全社会对此都负有责任，所以D正确。5. C。该词所在句意为“假如你不想撒谎又不愿和盘托出，会有公司情愿卖给你_文凭”，再结合下文提到的售卖假文凭的公司的状况可知，C(假的)正确。thorough意为“彻底的”，ultimate意为“最终的”，decisive意为“打算性的”，均排解。
