四級晨讀主題美文100篇 09

Cheating

Mr. Ward|had a single ‵pet peeve — cheating.

Mr. Ward once told me of ‵some of the ways|students have tried to cheat. The list sounds like a ‵resume|for the movie Dumb and Dumber.

1. Student A intentionally|" ‵drops" his pencil|an unusually far distance from his desk. So he ‵stands up|and waltzes slowly across the room|to retrieve it. On the way|he passes an ‵innocent victim|whose paper is left slightly in the open. He ‵bends over slowly to get the pencil|and ‵walks back slowly glancing at papers left and right. The ‵funny thing is|during multiple-choice objective tests; the pencils seemed to fall ‵quite a lot. ‵Whereas short answer|and proof tests|had some magical spell|over the pencils to keep them from falling.

2.The ‵old cheat sheet|has been used for decades. The ‵idea|is you get a piece of paper|and you write down all the formulas, rules, notes, definitions, and everything else|that you will need for the test. And some how get ‵access to it, during the test. The most ‵common way|is with a tiny bit of paper taped to the inside of the kid's palm. Mr. Ward told me|that ‵one time the student gave the test with the hand|with the cheat sheet ‵stuck to it and Mr. Ward saw it instantly.

3. Two students|who were very good friends|decided that they ‵didn't want to study for a test|and they came up with an idea. ‵One student remembers half of the formulas|and the other remembers the other half. So when it ‵came to test time, they would each take their half of the test|and then tell the other person the answers. So what did they ‵do? The answer|was ‵Morse code, with pencils.②One kid would tap his pencil lightly five times| ‵indicating he needed the answer to number 5. Then the other kid would tap|what ever the answer was. Furthermore, they had a ‵whole system worked out for fractions, decimals, equations, and everything else.