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翻译如下：
当诚实消失时
1、“有真正诚实的人吗？” 我们的报纸版面和电视新闻充斥着不计其数的有关欺骗、说谎和诈骗的报道，诚实似乎已经成为正在迅速消失的价值观。 而且这些报道表明，全球范围内腐败和不诚实现象蔓延范围之广已经危及到了社会的安康。
这些报道中包括诸如此类的故事：学生因考试前贩卖大学期末考题而面临犯罪指控；一名学生因提交买来的、还夹着收据的学期论文而被勒令退学；一名职员用公司的邮资机来邮寄自己的圣诞贺卡，他在寄了一张贺卡给公司的财务主管后被发现！
我们都读过或听过类似的事情，更别说社会各层面存在的种种不诚实行为，如偷窃东西的顾和索取贿赂的政客。
去年一年，一家大型连锁酒店的大量毛巾被游客偷走，酒店因此花费了300万美元来添置新毛巾。 尤其令人担忧的是，世界范围内有关学生不诚实行为的报道越来越多。
2、不过这些报道确实是真实的还是言过其实了呢？ 我们该不该因这些关于行为准则和道德水准下降的报道而感到不安呢？ 人们认定现在学生中的不诚实现象比20年、50年或100年前更为广泛。 如果是这样，其背后的原因是什么呢？
如果情况确实属实，那就令人十分担心了，因为今天的学生就是未来的领袖！ 也许现在学生骗人的欲望并不比从前大。 然而，由于大学学位至关重要，这可能给学生带来更大的压力，使他们在学术上造假。 毫无疑问，现代科技使人更容易获得造假的方法和机会。
写学期论文这一艰巨的任务即便不是最可怕的作业，也一直是导致学生神经紧张和沮丧的原因之一。 但是现在，网络唾手可得，点击几下鼠标就能找到非法的资源。
3、现在的学生如果想要伪造学期论文的话不必在网上浏览太长时间。 他们只需要找到合适的网址，然后购买或订购网上论文，或者甚至免费下载论文。 一个网络服务站提供“质量最高、价格最低的论文”，每页只需5.95 美元。
忙碌的、注重节约成本的学生还会找到其他出售“低价”论文的网站，这些网站向顾客许诺“你会既开心又成功。” 有些人担心，曾经被奉为最棒的学习工具的互联网会成为作弊者最得力的帮手。
4、为解决作弊泛滥的问题，世界各地的大学现在都在使用反抄袭软件，并且针对作弊和抄袭行为有严厉的惩罚政策。 如果学生被抓到以任何方式抄袭或作弊，他们就会立刻被勒令退学。 一些大学的教师不再只是谈论日益增多的学生作弊行为， 他们决定采取行动。 一所重点大学的教授发起一项运动，努力消除一种作弊行为。
当409名学生排队离开“心理学入门”考试的考场时， 他们发现除了一个出口以外，其他所有的考场出口都被堵上了。 考官们要求学生出示带有照片的身份证件。 如果他们能够提供令人满意的身份证件，他们就可以离开。
如果他们把证件落在家里了，考官们就会当面质问他们，并拍下他们的照片。 这项运动的目的就是要揭露那些雇来的作弊者，即替其他学生考试的学生。 这所大学的大部分学生都对这个新举措拍手称快。
5、随着人们意识到当今社会的不诚实行为日益增多，有时这就暗示着在“过去的好时光”里，人们更好、更快乐、更诚实。 过去的人更诚实吗？ 也许是，也许不是。 很久以前，所有的美国学童都知道亚伯拉罕•林肯步行5英里去归还他多收顾客的一便士的历史故事。 这是那种我们认为是杜撰出来的故事。 但是，发生在林肯身上的这个故事的确是真实的。
6、就像林肯的故事一样，每个社会都有强调诚实的绝对价值的故事。 这些故事正是学生在受到作弊的诱惑时需要记住的。 不管是否会被发现，不诚实都会给任何一个作弊者带来不利影响。 同样重要的是，作弊不仅仅只给作弊者带来负面影响。
没有诚信，有序的社会就会陷入混乱。 我们承诺要做的事就一定要做，我们承诺要付出的就一定要付出，自己的东西一定要自己写，这些都是很重要的。 也许我们的学校要教给学生的最重要的一课就是大家要彼此信任。 当诚实消失时，信任这一积极的、持久的纽带就会消失，我们都会迷失。 我们社会的未来依赖于我们彼此间的相互信任。
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Unit7If you often feel angry and overwhelmed, like the stress in your life is spinning out of control, then you may be hurting your heart. If you don't want to break your own heart, you need to learn to take charge of your life where you can—and recognize there are many things beyond your control. So says Dr. Robert S. Eliot, author of a new book titled From Stress to Strength: How to Lighten Your Load and Save Your Life. He's a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Nebraska. Eliot says there are people in this world that he calls "hot reactors". For these people, being tense may cause tremendous and rapid increases in their blood pressure. Eliot says researchers have found that stressed people have higher cholesterol levels, among other things. "We've done years of work in showing that excess alarm or stress chemicals can literally burst heart muscle fibers. When that happens it happens very quickly, within five minutes. It creates many short circuits, and that causes crazy heart rhythms. The heart beats like a bag of worms instead of a pump. And when that happens, we can't live." Eliot, 64, suffered a heart attack at age 44. He attributes some of the cause to stress. For years he was a "hot reactor". On the exterior, he was cool, calm and collected, but on the interior, stress was killing him. He's now doing very well. The main predictors of destructive levels of stress are the FUD factors—fear, uncertainty and doubt—together with perceived lack of control, he says. For many people, the root of their stress is anger, and the trick is to find out where the anger is coming from. "Does the anger come from a feeling that everything must be perfect?" Eliot asks. "That's very common in professional women. They feel they have to be all things to all people and do it all perfectly. They think, 'I should, I must, I have to.' Good enough is never good enough. Perfectionists cannot delegate. They get angry that they have to carry it all, and they blow their tops. Then they feel guilty and they start the whole cycle over again.""Others are angry because they have no compass in life. And they give the same emphasis to a traffic jam that they give a family argument," he says. "If you are angry for more than five minutes—if you stir the anger within you and let it build with no safety outlet—you have to find out where it's coming from." "What happens is that the hotter people get, physiologically, with mental stress, the more likely they are to blow apart with some heart problem." One step to calming down is to recognize you have this tendency. Learn to be less hostile by changing some of your attitudes and negative thinking. Eliot recommends taking charge of your life. "If there is one word that should be substituted for stress, it's control. Instead of the FUD factors, what you want is the NICE factors—new, interesting, challenging experiences." "You have to decide what parts of your life you can control," he says. "Stop where you are on your trail and say, 'I'm going to get my compass out and find out what I need to do.'" He suggests that people write down the six things in their lives that they feel are the most important things they'd like to achieve. Ben Franklin did it at age 32. "He wrote down things like being a better father, being a better husband, being financially independent, being stimulated intellectually and remaining even-tempered—he wasn't good at that." Eliot says you can first make a list of 12 things, then cut it down to 6 and set your priorities. "Don't give yourself impossible things, but things that will affect your identity, control and self-worth.""Put them on a note card and take it with you and look at it when you need to. Since we can't create a 26-hour day we have to decide what things we're going to do."Keep in mind that over time these priorities are going to change. "The kids grow up, the dog dies and you change your priorities."From Eliot's viewpoint, the other key to controlling stress is to "realize that there are other troublesome parts of your life over which you can have little or no control—like the economy and politician".You have to realize that sometimes with things like traffic jams, deadlines and unpleasant bosses, "You can't fight. You can't flee. You have to learn how to flow."
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