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You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need;
You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need;
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2023-07-12
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You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; let’s 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 represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finish an extra couple of years hack at State University?
More and more people are resorting to deception like this to land their first job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from prestige 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 (注册人) at most well-known colleges say they deal with fraudulent 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 reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One noted school calls them "impostors"; 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 transparent lies, some job-seekers claim that they "attend" or "were associated with" a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that "attending"
means dropping out 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 is when they began keep records, anyhow.
If you don’t want to lie or even stretch the truth there are companies that will sell you a 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. [br] As used in this passage, the word "fraudulent" (Para. 2) means______.
选项
A、careless
B、假
C、actual
D、ridiculous
答案
B
解析
词汇理解题。该题要求理解"fraudulent"—词在文章中的意思。该词出现的语境为"Registrars (注册人)at most well-known colleges say they deal with fraudulent claims like these at the rate of about one per week."(多数著名大学负责注册的人员说他们每周都要处理一起象这样的"?" 宣称)。根据该句中like these的提示,我们知道必须参考上文才能理解fraudulent (claims) 一词确切的意思。该段一开始说到“越来越多的人采用欺骗的手法来得到工作和获得职位上的升迁”。文章接着说“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.”(求职者也许受过良好的教育,但是他们认为持有著名大学学历的人找到工作的机会更大一些)。由此,我们可以得出结论所谓“这样的宣称”指的是用“欺骗,虚假”手段编造著名大学学历的做法。综上而言,我们可以确定"fraudulent"claim即 " false claims",故,我们确定[B]为该题答案。
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