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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.
The main idea of this passage is that______.

A. employers are checking more closely on applicants now
B. lying about college certificates has become a problem
C. unreal college degrees have become widespread
D. employers are no longer impressed by college degrees

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A. must
B. have to
C. should
D. had better

A.People continued to explore new lands.B.People started to make life better.C.People

A. People continued to explore new lands.
B. People started to make life better.
C. People stopped making inventions.
D. People started to explore more land.

A.Progress in medicine.B.Progress in new materials.C.Progress in computers.D.Progress

A. Progress in medicine.
B. Progress in new materials.
C. Progress in computers.
D. Progress in helicopters.

听力原文: There have been many great inventions, things that changed the way we live. The first great invention was one that is still very important today -- the wheel. This is used in cars, trucks, and tractors, etc., and has made it easier to carry heavy things and travel long distances.
For hundreds of years after that there were few inventions that had as much effect as the wheel. Then in the early 1800's the world started to change. There was little unknown land left in the world. People did not have to explore much anymore. They began to work instead to make life better.
In the second half of the 19th century, many great inventions were made. Among them were the camera, the electric light and the radio. These all became a big pan of our life today.
The first part of the 20th century saw mom great inventions: the helicopter in 1909, movies with sound in 1926, the computer in 1928, and the jet plane in 1930. This was also a time when a new kind of material was first made. Nylon came out in 1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wear.
The middle part of the 20th century brought new ways to help people get over diseases, They worked very well. They made people healthier and let them live longer. By the 1960's most people could expect to live to be at least 60.
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A. The tractor.
B. The ear.
C. The wheel.
D. The steam engine.

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