【英语时差8,16】作弊

Cheating Mr. Wardhad a single pet peeve² — cheating. Mr. Ward¹ 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 intentionally³ " drops" his pencil an unusually far distance from his desk. So he stands up and waltzes slowly across the room to retrieve⁴ it. On the way he passes an innocent victim whose paper is slightly 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. Where as short answer and proof tests had some magical spellover 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 m ethat 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 studentswho were very good friends decided⁵ 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 testand then tell the other person the answers. So what did they do? The answer was Morse code, with pencils.One 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.

1 ward   

n.守卫，监护，病房，行政区，由监护人或法院保护的人（尤指儿童）；vt.守护，躲开

参考例句：

• The hospital has a medical ward and a surgical ward.这家医院有内科病房和外科病房。
• During the evening picnic,I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.傍晚野餐时，我要点根火把，抵挡蚊虫。

2 peeve   

v.气恼，怨恨；n.麻烦的事物，怨恨

参考例句：

• She was in a peeve over it.她对这很气恼。
• She was very peeved about being left out.她为被遗漏而恼怒。

3 intentionally   

ad.故意地，有意地

参考例句：

• I didn't say it intentionally. 我是无心说的。
• The local authority ruled that he had made himself intentionally homeless and was therefore not entitled to be rehoused. 当地政府裁定他是有意居无定所，因此没有资格再获得提供住房。

4 retrieve   

vt.重新得到，收回；挽回，补救；检索

参考例句：

• He was determined to retrieve his honor.他决心恢复名誉。
• The men were trying to retrieve weapons left when the army abandoned the island.士兵们正试图找回军队从该岛撤退时留下的武器。

5 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。