In the first sentence of the paragraph, I thought the words ‘frustrating’ and ‘surveying’ were parallel. But it is not true. The parallel words are ‘trying’ and ‘surveying’. The author uses an interesting phrase ‘eating pattern’ to describe the eating habit. The word ‘handle’ draws my attention. What’s the meaning? Its meaning obviously is not ‘the part of an object that you use for holding it’ as usual//. In my opinion, it means ‘report’.
From paragraph 2, what does the author talk to //students? So I turn /turned/to the first paragraph with the question. After I analyzed it, I find/found/ the answer---surveying about the scholastic cheating from the //students. And there are two situations about the students’ attitudes in this part. They begin /It begins/ with the words ‘yes’ and ‘no’. According to the context, I know it because the subjects and predicates of these two situations are ‘most say’ and their objects are ‘yes’, ‘but no’ and ‘no’, and the complements of ‘yes’ is ‘they cheated when they were younger’, and ‘but no’ is ‘they would not dream of cheating now’. These two parts are counted as a /one/ situation. Then we can find the complement of ‘no’ is ‘cheating is not a big problem at their school’. If we read this paragraph clearly and find ‘the same kind of contrasts’, we /will/know the above-mentioned situations are not true.
In the third paragraph, I know the development of cheating about some person from the sentence ‘of habits that take root in elementary school, bud in high school and flower in college’. It is used as simile/?/. In this paragraph, I have /there/some words which I didn’t /haven't seen/ see before, such as ‘emerge’, ‘shatter’, ‘bud’. I will put them to /into/my vocabulary store---my brain/memory/.
In the fourth paragraph, there is an attractive phrase---‘cut down on’, which means ‘reduce’. When I read the word ‘seminar’, I imagined another word ‘discussion’ which has the same meaning about /with/‘seminar’. I feel puzzled that why the author uses the past tense of ‘invite’ as the other verbs are used the present tense. My teacher told me that it is used as a passive form. That is to say ‘students invited’ is equal to ‘the teacher invites students’.
In the fifth paragraph, the sentence, ‘Students just aren’t brought up to see cheating as dishonest’, confuses me because of two negative words. After I change /changed/the sentence without changing the meaning/?/, it sees /see/clear. That is ‘students just are brought up to see cheating as honest.’ In this paragraph and sixth paragraph, I know why some children can develop their cheating to flower. Either their parents misunderstand the meaning of ‘cheating’ and they ignore the level of cheating, or their parents’ negative behavior impacts them although their parents anger their cheating. Because of this, sometimes the flower grow to the fruit that some children become thieves. These two conclusions are authoritative in that they are given by two famous people who engage in education.
There is a complex sentence in the first sentence /句中有句?表達可換一下/of the seventh paragraph. Let us analyze its sentence structure/the structure of this sentence/. The subject is ‘most troubling’ and the predicate is ‘is’, then the author uses an object clause. After that, two appositive clauses of ‘the ones’ appears. The phrase ‘teacher and psychologists say’ is an additional explanation. In this paragraph, I stopped at the phrase ‘graduate school’. In this part, the word ‘graduate’ doesn’t mean ‘be awarded a degree’. From the context, I know the ‘graduate school’ means ‘a school which is for the postgraduates’.
In the eighth paragraph, the phrase ‘are making cheating a way of life’ means ‘the cheating would become a part of life’. That is to say there is a high extent of students cheating. Then the author uses some examples to prove it.
