2007年12月英语六级备考-完形（一）
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07/09/27 09:49 | by admin ]
07/09/27 09:49 | by admin ]
【第一页】完形填空正文以及题目
【第二页】完形填空答案&解析
【第二页】完形填空答案&解析
引用
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide--the division of the world into the info(information) rich and the info poor. And that __1__ does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less __2__ then, however, were the new, positive __3__ that work against the digital divide. __4__,there are reasons to be __5__.
There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more __6__, it is in the interest of business to universalize access-after all, the more people online, the more potential __7__ there are. More and more __8__, afraid their countries will be left __9__, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be __10__ together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will __11__ rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for __12__ world poverty that we've ever had.
Of course, the use of the Internet isn't the only way to __13__ poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has __14__ potential.
To __15__ advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices __16__ respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is a/an __17__ of their sovereignty might well study the history of __18__ (the basic structural foundations of a society) in the United States. When the United States built its industrial infrastructure, it didn't have the capital to do so. And that is __19__ America's Second Wave infrastructure-__20__ roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on-were built with foreign investment.
There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more __6__, it is in the interest of business to universalize access-after all, the more people online, the more potential __7__ there are. More and more __8__, afraid their countries will be left __9__, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be __10__ together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will __11__ rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for __12__ world poverty that we've ever had.
Of course, the use of the Internet isn't the only way to __13__ poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has __14__ potential.
To __15__ advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices __16__ respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is a/an __17__ of their sovereignty might well study the history of __18__ (the basic structural foundations of a society) in the United States. When the United States built its industrial infrastructure, it didn't have the capital to do so. And that is __19__ America's Second Wave infrastructure-__20__ roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on-were built with foreign investment.
引用
_________ 1. A) divide B) information C) world D) lecture
_________ 2. A) obscure B) visible C) invisible D) indistinct
_________ 3. A) forces B) obstacles C) events D) surprises
_________ 4. A) Seriously B) Entirely C) Actually D) Continuously
_________ 5. A) negative B) optimistic C) pleasant D) disappointed
_________ 6. A) developed B) centralized C) realized D) commercialized
_________ 7. A) users B) producers C) customers D) citizens
_________ 8. A) enterprises B) governments C) officials D) customers
_________ 9. A) away B) for C) aside D) behind
_________ 10. A) netted B) worked C) put D) organized
_________ 11. A) decrease B) narrow C) neglect D) low
_________ 12. A) containing B) preventing C) keeping D) combating
_________ 13. A) win B) detail C) defeat D) fear
_________ 14. A) enormous B) countless C) numerical D) big
_________ 15. A) bring B) keep C) hold D) take
_________ 16. A) at B) with C) of D) for
_________ 17. A) offence B) investment C) invasion D) insult
_________ 18. A) construction B) facility C) infrastructure D) institution
_________ 19. A) why B) where C) when D) how
_________ 20. A) concerning B) concluding C) according D) including
_________ 2. A) obscure B) visible C) invisible D) indistinct
_________ 3. A) forces B) obstacles C) events D) surprises
_________ 4. A) Seriously B) Entirely C) Actually D) Continuously
_________ 5. A) negative B) optimistic C) pleasant D) disappointed
_________ 6. A) developed B) centralized C) realized D) commercialized
_________ 7. A) users B) producers C) customers D) citizens
_________ 8. A) enterprises B) governments C) officials D) customers
_________ 9. A) away B) for C) aside D) behind
_________ 10. A) netted B) worked C) put D) organized
_________ 11. A) decrease B) narrow C) neglect D) low
_________ 12. A) containing B) preventing C) keeping D) combating
_________ 13. A) win B) detail C) defeat D) fear
_________ 14. A) enormous B) countless C) numerical D) big
_________ 15. A) bring B) keep C) hold D) take
_________ 16. A) at B) with C) of D) for
_________ 17. A) offence B) investment C) invasion D) insult
_________ 18. A) construction B) facility C) infrastructure D) institution
_________ 19. A) why B) where C) when D) how
_________ 20. A) concerning B) concluding C) according D) including
2007年12月英语六级阅读专项训练（一）
[ 07/09/23 09:41 | by admin ]
07/09/23 09:41 | by admin ]
【第一页】阅读正文&题目
【第二页】阅读答案&解析
【第三页】全文翻译
The big identity-theft bust last week was just a taste of what's to come. Here's how to protect your good name
HERE'S THE SCARY THING about the identity-theft ring that the feds cracked last week: there was nothing any of its estimated 40,000 victims could have done to prevent it from happening. This was an inside job, according to court documents. A lowly help-desk worker at Teledata Communications, a software firm that helps banks access credit reports online, allegedly stole passwords for those reports and sold them to a group of 20 thieves at $60 a pop. That allowed the gang to cherry-pick consumers with good credit and apply for all kinds of accounts in their names. Cost to the victims: $3 million and rising.
Even scarier is that this, the largest identity-theft bust to date, is just a drop in the bit bucket. More than 700,000 Americans have their credit hijacked every year. It's one of crime's biggest growth markets. A name, address and Social Security number--which can often be found on the Web--is all anybody needs to apply for a bogus line of credit. Credit companies make $1.3 trillion annually and lose less than 2% of that revenue to fraud, so there's little financial incentive for them to make the application process more secure. As it stands now, it's up to you to protect your identity.
The good news is that there are plenty of steps you can take. Most credit thieves are opportunists, not well-organized gangs. A lot of them go Dumpster diving for those millions of "pre-approved" credit-card mailings that go out every day. Others steal wallets and return them, taking only a Social Security number. Shredding your junk mail and leaving your Social Security card at home can save a lot of agony later.
But the most effective way to keep your identity clean is to check your credit reports once or twice a year. There are three major credit-report outfits: Equifax (at equifax.com), Trans-Union (www.transunion.com) and Experian (experian.com). All allow you to order reports online, which is a lot better than wading through voice-mail hell on their 800 lines. Of the three, I found TransUnion's website to be the cheapest and most comprehensive--laying out state-by-state prices, rights and tips for consumers in easy-to-read fashion.
If you're lucky enough to live in Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey or Vermont, you are entitled to one free report a year by law. Otherwise it's going to cost $8 to $14 each time. Avoid services that offer to monitor your reports year-round for about $70; that's $10 more than the going rate among thieves. If you think you're a victim of identity theft, you can ask for fraud alerts to be put on file at each of the three credit-report companies. You can also download a theft-report form at www.consumer.gov/idtheft, which, along with a local police report, should help when irate creditors come knocking. Just don't expect justice. That audacious help-desk worker was one of the fewer than 2% of identity thieves who are ever caught.
【第二页】阅读答案&解析
【第三页】全文翻译
Giving Credit Where Credit Is Not Due
The big identity-theft bust last week was just a taste of what's to come. Here's how to protect your good name
HERE'S THE SCARY THING about the identity-theft ring that the feds cracked last week: there was nothing any of its estimated 40,000 victims could have done to prevent it from happening. This was an inside job, according to court documents. A lowly help-desk worker at Teledata Communications, a software firm that helps banks access credit reports online, allegedly stole passwords for those reports and sold them to a group of 20 thieves at $60 a pop. That allowed the gang to cherry-pick consumers with good credit and apply for all kinds of accounts in their names. Cost to the victims: $3 million and rising.
Even scarier is that this, the largest identity-theft bust to date, is just a drop in the bit bucket. More than 700,000 Americans have their credit hijacked every year. It's one of crime's biggest growth markets. A name, address and Social Security number--which can often be found on the Web--is all anybody needs to apply for a bogus line of credit. Credit companies make $1.3 trillion annually and lose less than 2% of that revenue to fraud, so there's little financial incentive for them to make the application process more secure. As it stands now, it's up to you to protect your identity.
The good news is that there are plenty of steps you can take. Most credit thieves are opportunists, not well-organized gangs. A lot of them go Dumpster diving for those millions of "pre-approved" credit-card mailings that go out every day. Others steal wallets and return them, taking only a Social Security number. Shredding your junk mail and leaving your Social Security card at home can save a lot of agony later.
But the most effective way to keep your identity clean is to check your credit reports once or twice a year. There are three major credit-report outfits: Equifax (at equifax.com), Trans-Union (www.transunion.com) and Experian (experian.com). All allow you to order reports online, which is a lot better than wading through voice-mail hell on their 800 lines. Of the three, I found TransUnion's website to be the cheapest and most comprehensive--laying out state-by-state prices, rights and tips for consumers in easy-to-read fashion.
If you're lucky enough to live in Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey or Vermont, you are entitled to one free report a year by law. Otherwise it's going to cost $8 to $14 each time. Avoid services that offer to monitor your reports year-round for about $70; that's $10 more than the going rate among thieves. If you think you're a victim of identity theft, you can ask for fraud alerts to be put on file at each of the three credit-report companies. You can also download a theft-report form at www.consumer.gov/idtheft, which, along with a local police report, should help when irate creditors come knocking. Just don't expect justice. That audacious help-desk worker was one of the fewer than 2% of identity thieves who are ever caught.
引用
By Chris Taylor Time; 12/9/2002, Vol. 160 Issue 24, p100, 3/4p, 1c
注(1)：本文选自Time; 12/9/2002, p100, 3/4p, 1c；
注(2)：本文习题命题模仿对象2004年真题Text 1；
1.What is the trend of credit-theft crime?
[A]Tightly suppressed.
[B]More frightening.
[C]Rapidly increasing.
[D]loosely controlled.
2.The expression “inside job”(Line 6, Paragraph 1) most probably means _________.
[A]a crime that is committed by a person working for the victim
[B]a crime that should be punished severely
[C]a crime that does great harm to the victim
[D]a crime that poses a great threat to the society
3.The creditors can protect their identity in the following way except _________.
[A]destroying your junk mail
[B]leaving your Social Security card at home
[C]visiting the credit-report website regularly
[D]obtaining the free report from the government
4.Why is it easy to have credit-theft?
[A]More people are using credit service.
[B]The application program is not safe enough.
[C]Creditors usually disclose their identity.
[D]Creditors are not careful about their identity.
5.What is the best title of the text?
[A]The danger of credit-theft
[B]The loss of the creditors
[C]How to protect your good name
[D]Why the creditors lose their identity
注(1)：本文选自Time; 12/9/2002, p100, 3/4p, 1c；
注(2)：本文习题命题模仿对象2004年真题Text 1；
1.What is the trend of credit-theft crime?
[A]Tightly suppressed.
[B]More frightening.
[C]Rapidly increasing.
[D]loosely controlled.
2.The expression “inside job”(Line 6, Paragraph 1) most probably means _________.
[A]a crime that is committed by a person working for the victim
[B]a crime that should be punished severely
[C]a crime that does great harm to the victim
[D]a crime that poses a great threat to the society
3.The creditors can protect their identity in the following way except _________.
[A]destroying your junk mail
[B]leaving your Social Security card at home
[C]visiting the credit-report website regularly
[D]obtaining the free report from the government
4.Why is it easy to have credit-theft?
[A]More people are using credit service.
[B]The application program is not safe enough.
[C]Creditors usually disclose their identity.
[D]Creditors are not careful about their identity.
5.What is the best title of the text?
[A]The danger of credit-theft
[B]The loss of the creditors
[C]How to protect your good name
[D]Why the creditors lose their identity
[听力]六级复合式听写训练（一）
[ 07/09/21 11:38 | by admin ]
07/09/21 11:38 | by admin ]
复合式听写需要具有良好的听的能力，拼写能力，记笔记能力和书面表达能力。
本节目通过每周的练习，让大家能更好地应付这部分的考试。做题不是个好方法，
但是确实是个有用的方法
【听力原文】
Windows Media Player文件
【答案见下页】
本节目通过每周的练习，让大家能更好地应付这部分的考试。做题不是个好方法，
但是确实是个有用的方法
【听力原文】
Windows Media Player文件引用
【听力材料】
Nursing, as a typically female profession, must deal constantly with the false impression
that nurses are there to wait on the physician. As nurses, we are (36) ____ to provide nursing
care only. We do not have any legal or moral (37) ________ to any physician. We provide health
teaching, (38) _____ physical as well as emotional problems, (39) _______patient-related services,
and make all of our nursing decisions based upon what is best or suitable for the patient. If, in
any (40) ___, we fell that a physician’s order is (41) _____or unsafe, we have a legal
(42) _______to question that order or refuse to carry it out.
Nursing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off. All nurses are aware of that before they
enter the profession. The emotional and physical stress, however, that occurs due to odd working
hours is a (43) ____reason for a lot of the career dissatisfaction. (44)________________________.
That disturbs our personal lives, disrupts our sleeping and eating habits, and isolates us from everything
except job-related friends and activities.
The quality of nursing care is being affected dramatically by these situations. (45)________________________________________________________________.
Consumers of medically related services have evidently not been affected enough yet to
demand changes in our medical system. But if trends continue as predicted,(46)___________________________________________________________________.
Nursing, as a typically female profession, must deal constantly with the false impression
that nurses are there to wait on the physician. As nurses, we are (36) ____ to provide nursing
care only. We do not have any legal or moral (37) ________ to any physician. We provide health
teaching, (38) _____ physical as well as emotional problems, (39) _______patient-related services,
and make all of our nursing decisions based upon what is best or suitable for the patient. If, in
any (40) ___, we fell that a physician’s order is (41) _____or unsafe, we have a legal
(42) _______to question that order or refuse to carry it out.
Nursing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off. All nurses are aware of that before they
enter the profession. The emotional and physical stress, however, that occurs due to odd working
hours is a (43) ____reason for a lot of the career dissatisfaction. (44)________________________.
That disturbs our personal lives, disrupts our sleeping and eating habits, and isolates us from everything
except job-related friends and activities.
The quality of nursing care is being affected dramatically by these situations. (45)________________________________________________________________.
Consumers of medically related services have evidently not been affected enough yet to
demand changes in our medical system. But if trends continue as predicted,(46)___________________________________________________________________.
【答案见下页】
2007年12月新英语六级怎么准备？
[ 07/09/21 09:30 | by admin ]
07/09/21 09:30 | by admin ]
随着又一个新学期的开始，对于四、六级的复习准备又拉开了帷幕，在学期伊始，应该如何准备全新的难度更高的四、六级考试呢？希望以下建议能为广大考生拨开迷雾见月明。
现今业已全面改革的四、六级考试，来自考生的反应大多是难度大幅提高，考察题型多样化，复习工作难于理清头绪，而对于众多早已将英语置之一旁不理多年的考生而言，新四、六级考试更是难于复习应对。
应对新四、六级考试，广大考生应从以下方面着手，旨在能够应对全新的四、六级考试模式。
听力
在听力方面比重的加大，也提高了对考生听力能力的要求。考生不仅应该能够听懂并理解短对话，短文的内容，更要能提高听写能力，即在长文章听力过程中把握词和短句的能力。因此，有意识的培养自己的精听能力是很有必要的。考生可以以四、六级历年真题作为复习资料，辅以VOA等听力材料，利用集中的时间进行精听，并且保证练习的持续性，毕竟，听力的提高是一项积累性的工作。
阅读
传统阅读比例的缩小，对于考生应对阅读是个不小的挑战。以改革后的几次考试来看，在仍占20%比例的传统阅读上与以往并没有太大的变化，考生完全可以按照以往的方式复习准备。另一方面，在快速阅读上，很多考生遇到了不小的麻烦，主要体现在规定时间内迅速定位核心词和句意理解上，因此考生不妨以大学英语泛读等作为提高阅读速度的辅助材料，利用计时的方式提高自己扫读(速读)的能力；同时，对文章中难于理解的句子进行长难句分析，以逐步提高自己的理解能力。
在新增的选词填空或是由传统借鉴而来的回答问题上，四、六级并没有体现出太多新意。考生复习时首先需要提高的仍是词汇量和基本的语法知识，但是鉴于传统的词汇和结构题早已被取消，考生的复习应该更贴近于对于词性的辨析，词与词的搭配，词汇的运用和词义的理解，更好地把握词的含义而非仅仅是记住而已。
写作
相比起阅读和听力，写作并没有大的变动，只是在整体评分中增加了汉译英的内容，在一定程度上说明新四、六级更侧重的是考生的英语应用能力，而考生应该从自身水平出发，增加对于短句翻译的练习，也是为写作的进一步提高夯实基础。
在文章命题上，四级仍然侧重于更为灵活的文体的考察，包括应用文在内；而六级依然会回归传统的议论文题材，考生在准备不同的考试时也应该采取不同的复习策略。
其他的项目如完形，改错等，相比起改革前的四、六级而言，并没有什么变化，因此考生仍可按照之前的策略稳扎稳打地进行复习。总之，改革后的新四、六级考试需要考生投入更多的时间和精力，不仅仅是在英语基础上有所提高，在解题技巧和思路上也需要考生因时而变。但是相比传统的四、六级而言，新的题型在一定程度上让考生从繁杂枯燥的复习中解脱出来，重新审视自己的英语学习，对于考生的实际英语水平的提高，会有更大的帮助。
现今业已全面改革的四、六级考试，来自考生的反应大多是难度大幅提高，考察题型多样化，复习工作难于理清头绪，而对于众多早已将英语置之一旁不理多年的考生而言，新四、六级考试更是难于复习应对。
应对新四、六级考试，广大考生应从以下方面着手，旨在能够应对全新的四、六级考试模式。
听力
在听力方面比重的加大，也提高了对考生听力能力的要求。考生不仅应该能够听懂并理解短对话，短文的内容，更要能提高听写能力，即在长文章听力过程中把握词和短句的能力。因此，有意识的培养自己的精听能力是很有必要的。考生可以以四、六级历年真题作为复习资料，辅以VOA等听力材料，利用集中的时间进行精听，并且保证练习的持续性，毕竟，听力的提高是一项积累性的工作。
阅读
传统阅读比例的缩小，对于考生应对阅读是个不小的挑战。以改革后的几次考试来看，在仍占20%比例的传统阅读上与以往并没有太大的变化，考生完全可以按照以往的方式复习准备。另一方面，在快速阅读上，很多考生遇到了不小的麻烦，主要体现在规定时间内迅速定位核心词和句意理解上，因此考生不妨以大学英语泛读等作为提高阅读速度的辅助材料，利用计时的方式提高自己扫读(速读)的能力；同时，对文章中难于理解的句子进行长难句分析，以逐步提高自己的理解能力。
在新增的选词填空或是由传统借鉴而来的回答问题上，四、六级并没有体现出太多新意。考生复习时首先需要提高的仍是词汇量和基本的语法知识，但是鉴于传统的词汇和结构题早已被取消，考生的复习应该更贴近于对于词性的辨析，词与词的搭配，词汇的运用和词义的理解，更好地把握词的含义而非仅仅是记住而已。
写作
相比起阅读和听力，写作并没有大的变动，只是在整体评分中增加了汉译英的内容，在一定程度上说明新四、六级更侧重的是考生的英语应用能力，而考生应该从自身水平出发，增加对于短句翻译的练习，也是为写作的进一步提高夯实基础。
在文章命题上，四级仍然侧重于更为灵活的文体的考察，包括应用文在内；而六级依然会回归传统的议论文题材，考生在准备不同的考试时也应该采取不同的复习策略。
其他的项目如完形，改错等，相比起改革前的四、六级而言，并没有什么变化，因此考生仍可按照之前的策略稳扎稳打地进行复习。总之，改革后的新四、六级考试需要考生投入更多的时间和精力，不仅仅是在英语基础上有所提高，在解题技巧和思路上也需要考生因时而变。但是相比传统的四、六级而言，新的题型在一定程度上让考生从繁杂枯燥的复习中解脱出来，重新审视自己的英语学习，对于考生的实际英语水平的提高，会有更大的帮助。
美文欣赏：假如我没了诚信
[ 07/09/21 09:01 | by admin ]
07/09/21 09:01 | by admin ]
The Importance of Being Honest
假如没了诚信，我一天也不会快乐
In the busy city of New York, such an astonishing thing that ever happened.
在繁华的纽约，曾经发生了这样一件震撼人心的事情。
On a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Though the music was great, people were quickly going home for the weekend. In this case, many of them slowed down their paces and put some money into the hat of the young man.
星期五的傍晚，一个贫穷的年轻艺人仍然像往常一样站在地铁站门口，专心致志地拉着他的小提琴。琴声优美动听，虽然人们都急急忙忙地赶着回家过周末，但还是有很多人情不自禁的放慢了脚步，时不时地会有一些人在年轻艺人跟前的礼帽里放一些钱。
The next day, the young artist came to the gate of the subway station, and put his hat on the ground gracefully. Different than the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it on the ground and put some stones on it. Then he adjusted the violin and began playing. It seemed more pleasant to listen to.
第二天黄昏，年轻的艺人又像往常一样准时来到地铁门口，把他的礼帽摘下来很优雅地放在地上。和以往不同的是，他还从包里拿出一张大纸，然后很认真地铺在地上，四周还用自备的小石块压上。做完这一切以后，他调试好小提琴，又开始了演奏，声音似乎比以前更动听更悠扬。
Before long, the young violinist was surrounded with people, who were all attracted by the words on that paper. It said, "Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat by mistaken. Please come to claim it soon."
不久，年轻的小提琴手周围站满了人，人们都被铺在地上的那张大纸上的字吸引了，有的人还踮起脚尖看。上面写着：“昨天傍晚，有一位叫乔治-桑的先生错将一份很重要的东西放在我的礼帽里，请您速来认领。”
Seeing this, it caused a great excitement and people wondered what it could be. After about half an hour, a middle-aged man ran there in a hurry and rushed through the crowd to the violinist and grabbed his shoulders and said, "Yes, it's you. You did come here. I knew that you're an honest man and would certainly come here."
见此情景，人群之间引起一阵骚动，都想知道这是一份什么样的东西。过了半小时左右，一位中年男人急急忙忙跑过来，拨开人群就冲到小提琴手面前，抓住他的肩膀语无伦次的说：“啊！是您呀，您真的来了，我就知道您是个诚实的人，您一定会来的。”
The young violinist asked calmly, "Are you Mr. George Sang?"
年轻的小提琴手冷静地问：“您是乔治-桑先生吗？”
The man nodded. The violinist asked, "Did you lose something?"
那人连忙点头。小提琴手又问：“您遗落了什么东西吗？”
"Lottery. It's lottery," said the man.
那位先生说：“奖票，奖票”。
The violinist took out a lottery ticket on which George Sang's name was seen. "Is it?" he asked.
小提琴手于是掏出一张奖票，上面还醒目地写着乔治-桑，小提琴手举着彩票问：“是这个吗？”
George nodded promptly and seized the lottery ticket and kissed it, then he danced with the violinist.
乔治-桑迅速地点点头，抢过奖票吻了一下，然后又抱着小提琴手在地上跳起了舞。
The story turned out to be this: George Sang is an office clerk. He bought a lottery ticket issued by a bank a few days ago. The awards opened yesterday and he won a prize of $500,000. So he felt very happy after work and felt the music was so wonderful, that he took out 50 dollars and put in the hat. However the lottery ticket was also thrown in. The violinist was a student at an Arts College and had planned to attend advanced studies in Vienna. He had booked the ticket and would fly that morning. However when he was cleaning up he found the lottery ticket. Thinking that the owner would return to look for it, he cancelled the flight and came back to where he was given the lottery ticket.
原来事情是这样的，乔治-桑是一家公司的小职员，他前些日子买了一张一家银行发行的奖票，昨天上午开奖，他中了50万美元的奖金。昨天下班，他心情很好，觉得音乐也特别美妙，于是就从钱包里掏出50美元，放在了礼帽里，可是不小心把奖票也扔了进去。小提琴手是一名艺术学院的学生，本来打算去维也纳进修，已经定好了机票，时间就在今天上午，可是他昨天整理东西时发现了这张奖票，想到失主会来找，于是今天就退掉了机票，又准时来到这里。
Later someone asked the violinist: "At that time you were in needed to pay the tuition fee and you had to play the violin in the subway station every day to make the money. Then why didn't you take the lottery ticket for yourself?"
后来，有人问小提琴手：“你当时那么需要一笔学费，为了赚够这笔学费，你不得不每天到地铁站拉提琴。那你为什么不把那50万元的奖票留下呢？”
The violinist said, "Although I don't have much money, I live happily; but if I lose honesty I won't be happy forever."
小提琴手说：“虽然我没钱，但我活得很快乐；假如我没了诚信，我一天也不会快乐。”
Through our lives, we can gain a lot and lose so much. But being honest should always be with us. If we bear ourselves in a deceptive and dishonest way, we may succeed temporarily. However, from the long-term view, we will be a loser. Such kind of people are just like the water on the mountain. It stands high above the masses at the beginning, but gradually it comes down inch by inch and loses the chance of going up.
在人的一生中，我们会得到许多，也会失去许多，但守信用却应是始终陪伴我们的。如果以虚伪、不诚实的方式为人处世，也许能获得暂时的“成功”，但从长远看，他最终是个失败者。这种人就像山上的水，刚开始的时候，是高高在上，但逐渐逐渐地它就越来越下降，再没有一个上升的机会。
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