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 math　26　 to our class. When the papers were 　 27　 she discovered that twelve boys had made exactly the

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　　mistakes throughout the test.

　　There is nothing really new about 

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　　in exams. Perhaps that was

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　　Mrs. O’Neill didn’t even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to

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　　after class. I was one of the twelve.

　　Mrs. O’Neill asked 

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　　questions, and she didn’t 

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　　 us, either. Instead, she wrote on the blackboard the 

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　　words 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 for   35

　　I can say: it was the most important single

　　36  of my life. Thirty years after being introduced to Macaulay’s words, they  37  seem to me the best yardstick (准绳 now because they give us a way to

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