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Let's say you're a student in class. There are boxes full of delicious snacks （ 零食 ） on a table in front of the room. There's a money box next to the snacks. It's up to you whether to pay or not. And nobody's watching.
Would you be an honest citizen and put some coins into the box? Or would you walk off with a snack without paying?
That's the basis of the honesty shop—a business that relies on the customer to do the right thing.
Schools have, for some years, been experi-menting with honesty shops in a part of India where theft was so common in the past that the people who lived in this place were called “thief”.
Yet at St. Claret's in the southern Indian village of Karumathur, the school's honesty shop just had its most honest year ever. Since the shops were begun in 2004, the average loss is $28 every year. In 2008-2009, the figure rose to $85. But it's greatly reduced since then. And in the school year ending in 2017, it was $13, with most classes having perfect accounts.
The man behind the honesty shops was Father Ansel Mus, a priest （ 牧师 ） who founded the school in the 1980s to serve rural and low-income students. He was aware that these children lived in an area regarded as a high-theft district and that they had many unfair experiences because of that.
“Father Mus wanted education to provide values that could help with life,” says the present headmaster, Father Soosai Manickam. “He had read about the concept of honesty shops and wondered if we could realize it.”
And the idea has spread.
“The biggest lesson we've learnt from the honesty shops is that being honest is a choice, and it should reach all aspects of our lives,” says a student. “It's not just about snacks. It's about knowing the right thing to do.”
1. In the honesty shop, students ______.
A. could buy various kinds of snacks with a little money
B. are able to eat the snacks without paying any money
C. are given the right to decide whether they will pay
D. could decide how to run the business by themselves
2. What kind of students did the school of St. Claret's serve when it was first founded?
A. Those who came from low-income families in rural areas.
B. Those who had the desire to be respected by other people.
C. Those who wanted to be honest citizens in their villages.
D. Those who didn't behave well in the school's honesty shop.
3. Why did Father Mus set the honesty shop, according to Father Soosai Manickam?
A. To make enough money to help run the school.
B. To reduce the number of students who eat snacks.
C. To help students have the right values in their life.
D. To move students into a district without thieves.
4. What does the author want to express by mentioning the student's words in the last paragraph?
A. The honesty shop has helped all the students grow to be honest.
B. The honesty shop has made students prefer honesty to snacks.
C. The honesty shop has provided different lessons for students.
D. The honesty shop has had an active influence on students.