Question

The measure（衡量）of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. — Thomas Macaulay

Some thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs. Nannette O’Neill gave a math ___ to our class. When the papers were marked she discovered that twelve boys had made exactly the ____mistakes throughout the test.

There is nothing really new about cheating in exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs. O’Neill didn’t even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to ____ after class. I was one of the twelve.

Mrs. O’Neill asked no questions, and she did not scold （責備）us, either. Instead, she wrote on the blackboard the ____ words by Thomas Macaulay. She then ordered us to ____ these words into our exercise-books one hundred times.

I don’t ____ about the other eleven boys. Speaking for ____ I can say: it was the most important single _____of my life. Thirty years after being introduced to Macaulay’s words, they ____ seem to me the best yardstick (準繩), because they give us a ____ to measure ourselves rather than others.

____ of us are asked to made great decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us are called upon daily to make a great many personal decisions. ____ the wallet which was found in the street be put into a pocket ____ turned over to the policeman? Should the extra（額外的） change that was received at the store be forgotten or ____? Nobody will know except you. But you have to live with yourself, and it is always ____ to live with someone you respect.

1.A. test B. problem C. paper D. lesson

2.A. easy B. funny C. same D. serious

3.A. come B. leave C. remain D. apologize

4.A. above B. common C. following D. unusual

5.A. repeat B. get C. put D. copy

6.A. worry B. know C. hear D. talk

7.A. myself B. ourselves C. themselves D. herself

8.A. chance B. incident C. lesson D. memory

9.A. even B. still C. always D. almost

10.A. way B. sentence C. choice D. reason

11.A. All B. Few C. Some D. None

12.A. Should B. Must C. Would D. Need

13.A. and B. or C. then D. but

14.A. paid B. remembered C. shared D. returned

15.A. harder B. better C. more peaceful D. more natural

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