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Topic: Honesty Pays 参考词汇和句型 to tell a white lie to cheat on sb. to deceive sb. into doing sth. to be honest frankly speaking I have no idea who told you that. I’m afraid that it is not true. to talk sb. into doing sth. to talk sb. out of doing sth. Tell me straight now. rumor / gossip to tell you the truth pirated copyright to copy sb. else’s answers in an exam confidential materials Your secret is safe with me. A leopard cant change its spots. A great talker is a great liar. Things done can’t be undone. A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.撒一个善意（无害）的谎 欺骗某人 骗某人做某事 诚实 坦率地讲 我不知道是谁告诉你的。 恐怕这不是事实。 劝某人做某事。 劝某人不要做某事。 有话直说吧。 谣言 / 闲话 跟你说实话 盗版 考试时抄袭别人的答案 机密资料 我会替你保守秘密 本性难移。 说大话者多谎言。 覆水难收。 说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。 补充阅读 Put Heat on Campus Cheats James Taylor was astonished at the rampant cheating taking place in his history class at the University of Arizona. Students looked over each other’s shoulders, devised coughing codes to communicate to friends, and flashed answers on the backs of their hands while pretending to stretch. He once caught one student using his cell phone to send answers to a friend’s page. The code “54*2,” for instance, meant the answer to question 545 was B. Taylor kicked them out of his classroom and gave them both an F. At small Momingside College in Sioux City, Iowa, philosophy professor Heather Reid discovered cheating in her introductory ethics class. Two students turned in homework assignments that were almost identical. Reid reported the incident to the academic dean, leading to an investigation. One student was suspended and given an F for the course. Incidents such as these are all too common. In recent years many colleges and universities have reported a surge in plagiarism, unauthorized collusion on assignments and cheating on tests. In research conducted at 31 schools over the past decade, Rutgers University professor Donald McCabe has found that nearly 70 percents of students admit to cheating at some point during college, with over 1