5.职业道德（图略）

Directions: Study the following picture carefully and write an essay in which you should

1) describe the pictures briefly,

2) explain its intended meaning, and

3) give your comments.

The cartoon vividly depicts people in expanding numbers are engaged in open and rampant cheating in business. In the drawing, a man is adding poisonous elements in the milk.

Professional dishonesty has a very damaging effect. In the first place, since cheating in business reveals the moral deficiencies as well as the humanity weakness of those businessmen who engage in it, the dishonest practice will ultimately exerts a perverse influence on the whole society. In the second place, it not only puts honest businessmen at a competitive disadvantage, encouraging those who did not cheat to adopt similar practices later, but undermines the very foundation of professional ethics in business.

It is often painful to impose sanctions in a specific case. But it is worthwhile. For one thing, to eliminate professional dishonesty thoroughly, serious forms of punishment for a willful offense-a suspension of the offender from business-should be applied. For another, since the incentives to engage in cheating in business are mainly due to a lack of adequate precautions, drastic actions should be taken to prevent one form of cheating or another.