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辽宁省葫芦岛市普通高中2020届高三英语第一次模拟考试试卷
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
—-Thomas Macaulay About thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs Nanette O'Neill gave a maths1to our class. When the papers were2she discovered that twelve boys had made exactly the3mistakes throughout the test.
There is nothing really new about4in exams. Perhaps that was5Mrs O'Neill didn't even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to6after class. I was one of the twelve.
Mrs O'Neill asked7questions, and she didn't8us either. Instead, she wrote on the blackboard the9words by Thomas Macaulay. She then ordered us to copy these words into our exercise-books one hundred times.
I don't know about the other eleven boys. Speaking for10I can say it was the most important single11of my life. Thirty years after being introduced to Macaulay's words, they12seem to me the best yardstick (准绳), because they give us a13to measure ourselves rather than others.
14of us are asked to make15decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us are called16daily to make a great many personal decisions. Should the wallet,17in the street, be put into a pocket or 18 to the policeman? Should the19change received at the store be forgotten or20? Nobody will know except you. But you have to live with yourself, and it is always better to live with someone you respect.
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