If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a fake 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.

　　因为人事部门的官员们更看重名校学历，因此人们常常为谋求一份好工作和职位而造假。

　　13．The writer mainly wants to tell us that ________.

　　A. college degrees can now be purchased easily

　　B. nowadays it is very hard for people to find jobs

　　C. lying about college degrees is becoming a widespread problem

　　D. employers are no longer interested in applicants' actual performances

　　答案：C。主旨大意题。总览文章可知C项为本文主旨。

　　14．As used in the first line of the second paragraph，the word “utter” means ________.

　　A. thorough

　　B. careful

　　C. imcomplete

　　D. spoken

　　答案：A。词义猜测题。由第二段第一句中的关键词deception(欺骗)及其后的解释“学历造假”，再结合文章主旨可推出A项正确。thorough彻底的。

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