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READING Honesty
I can understand a text about honesty.
1 Look at the photos and the title of the
text. Which of the topics 1–4 do you think
the text mentions? Read the text and
check your answers.
1 Hurting someone’s feelings.
2 Cheating in an exam.
3 Downloading music.
4 Keeping money that isn’t ours.
2 3.21 Read the text again and
complete gaps 1–4 with sentences a–e.
There is one extra sentence that you do
not need. Then listen to the text and
check your answers.
a So are older people less honest, or
more thoughtful?
b Telling the truth in some situations is
considered to be rude.
c In the same way, most people thought
that it was OK to buy copied DVDs at a
market.
d For young people, it depends on the
type of shop.
e They said that it was acceptable to take
money from a supermarket because
they were very rich.
3 BUILD YOUR VOCABULARY Complete the
phrases with make or do. Then check your
answers in the text.
1 a survey
2 a difference
3 excuses
4 your best
5 the right thing
4 Complete the sentences with the correct
form of make or do.
1 Have you the washing-up yet?
2 I’m going to a sandwich in a
minute.
3 What job do you want to ?
4 I haven’t any plans for the summer.
5 You should a habit of doing exercise
every day.
6 Can you me a favour, please?
5 YOUR OPINIONS Ask and answer the questions.
1 If you were given too much change in a
supermarket, what would you do?
2 How do you feel about copying music illegally?
3 When did you last tell a white lie?
4 Is it always possible to be honest? Why /
Why not?
5 Do you think most people are honest?
Surprise, surprise, we aren’t all perfect! A popular
magazine recently published a survey about
honesty. Virtually everyone who did the survey
admitted that they had been dishonest at some time
in their lives. But people had very different ideas
about what was acceptable in different situations.
One classic test of honesty is when we’re given too much
change in a shop. In the survey, 67% of people said that
they would return the money, but others said that the answer
depended on the shop assistant and the type of shop. Some
said, for example, that they would return the money
to a small shop, but not to a supermarket, unless
the assistant had been very kind. 1 They thought t
that it wouldn’t make a difference to a big company.
There was a similar attitude towards software and
music: 45% of the people in the survey said that
they had already downloaded software or music
illegally. They said that this was OK because the
companies which sell the software or music ‘have
got enough money already’. 2 It seems that we
make excuses for our dishonesty so that we don’t
feel too guilty.
We also persuade ourselves that it’s OK to lie, and we tell
‘white lies’ when we don’t want to hurt people’s feelings. 3
So if someone asks, ‘How do I look?’ and they look terrible,
what do you say? In that type of situation, it’s often kinder to
be dishonest. Most people said that they couldn’t tell the truth.
They’d say that the person looked good. Or if you see your
friend’s partner with someone else, do you tell your friend?
The survey showed very different results for younger and older
people: 55% of young people said that they would tell the
friend, while only 18% of people over fifty said the same thing.
4
The answer isn’t clear.
Obviously we should all do our best to be honest, but the
survey showed that we don’t always do the right thing.
Unfortunately, for a lot of people, what’s right and wrong isn’t
always black and white.
80 Honestly!
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