B1 Unit 5 Text 1 英汉对照(原Unit5).docVIP

Text One Cheating by Susan Shreve 　 Do you know how one might feel if he or she has cheated in a school test? Read the following and learn some lessons, if any, from the experience of the boy in the story. I cheated on a unit test in math class this morning during second period with Mr. Burke. Afterward, I was too sick to eat lunch just thinking about it. I came straight home from school, went to my room, and lay on the floor trying to decide whether it would be better to run away from home now or after supper. Mostly I wished I was dead. It wasnt even an accident that I cheated. Yesterday Mr. Burke announced thered be a unit test and anyone who didnt pass would have to come to school on Saturday, most particularly me, since I didnt pass the last unit test. He said that right out in front of everyone as usual. You can imagine how much I like Mr. Burke. But I did plan to study just to prove to him that Im plenty smart—which I am mostly—except in math, which Id be okay in if Id memorize my times tables. Anyway, I got my desk ready to study on since it was stacked with about two million things. Just when I was ready to work, Nicho came into my room with our new rabbit and it jumped on my desk and knocked the flashcards all over the floor. I yelled for my mother to come and help me pick them up, but Carlotta was crying as usual and Mother said I was old enough to help myself and a bunch of other stuff like that which mothers like to say. My mothers one of those people who tells you everything youve done wrong for thirty years like you do it every day. It drives me crazy. Anyway, Nicho and I took the rabbit outside but then Philip came to my room and also Marty from next door and before long it was dinner. After dinner my father said I could watch a special on television if Id done all my homework. Of course I said I had. That was the beginning. I felt terrible telling my father a lie about the homework so I couldnt even enjoy th