I found out that sometimes doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the
eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me said
something to me, but I didn't understand. So I got closer to her and found out that she was trying to ask
me if I had an extra pen. She showed me that hers could not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I
took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk.
Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the classroom when all
the other students were
out. Then she began to talk to me about honesty and
emphasized (重点强调)
the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating themselves. She made me
promise that I would think seriously about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave.
I walked out of the room wondering why she had talked to me about all those things.
The next day, I realized that the teacher thought I had
cheated on the test. When she saw me talk to
the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answers from the girl's test paper. I tried to explain about
the pen, but she said it seemed very strange to her that I hadn't talked of anything about the pen when she
talked to me after the test. She continued to believe that I had cheated on the test.
1. The story took place exactly ________.
A. in the teacher's office
B. in the classroom
C. in the playground
D. in the library
2. Why did the boy get close to his classmate during the test?
A. Because he wanted to borrow a pen from his classmate.
B. Because he wanted to copy his classmate's answers.
C. Because his classmate wanted to borrow a pen.
D. Because his classmate wanted to copy his answe
rs.
3. When the teacher saw all this, she asked the boy ________.
A. to go on writing his paper
B. to stop taking the exam
C. to leave the room immediately
D. to stay behind the classroom
4. The underlined word "cheated" means "________" in Chinese.
A. 迟到
B. 睡觉
C. 玩耍
D. 作弊
5. The boy realized the teacher made a mistake ________.
A. on the day of the test
B. when he was walking out of the room
C. when the teacher talked to him
D. the next day
