Question

More than half of teachers in a UK survey said they thought plagiarism from the Internet is a problem.

Some students who steal essays wholly  from the Web, they said, are so lazy they don’t even bother to take the ads off the cut-and-pasted text. 58 percent of the teachers interviewed in the Association of Teachers and Lectures(ALT) questionnaire had come across plagiarism among their pupils. Gill Bullen from Itchen College in Southampton, for example, said pieces handed in by two students were the same and significantly better than either of them could have done.” “Not only that, the essays given in didn’t quite answer the title question I had set.” A teacher from Leeds said, “ I had one piece of work so obviously ‘cut and pasted’ that it still contained ads from the Web page” Connie Robinson from Stockton Riverside College, Stockton, said, “ With less able students, it is easy to spot plagiarism as the writing style changes mid-assignment, but with more able students, it is sometimes necessary for teachers to carry out Internet research to find out the source of the plagiarism.” Mary Bousted, general secretary of the ALT, said, “Teachers are struggling under a mountain of cut-and-pasting to spot whether work was the student’s own or plagiarism.” She called for strong policies to oppose plagiarism, and asked for help from the government in providing resources and techniques to delete cheats.

1.What does the underlined word “plagiarism” in Para 1 probably mean?

A．making quotations

B．stealing others’ works or ideas

C．cutting and pasting on the Internet

D．surfing others’ works or ideas

2.According to Para 2 some students are so lazy that they don’t_______.

A．bother to remove the ads

B．want to steal the whole essay

C．check the mistakes on the Internet

D．bother to do the work of cutting and pasting

3.According to Mary Bousted, we can learn that_______.

A．the government doesn’t complete its duty to stop plagiarism

B．it’s very easy for teachers to spot plagiarism

C．plagiarism causes the teachers great trouble

D．only the government can find cheats

4.What can be the best title for the passage?

A．UK students are lazy

B．punishment on plagiarism

C．Internet plagiarism –a problem in UK

D．Hard to prevent plagiarism from the Internet

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.C

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：本题讲述的是在英国的学生中普遍存在的论文剽窃现象

1.B 推理题。根据文章第二段内容Some students who steal essays wholly  from the Web, they said, are so lazy they don’t even bother to take the ads off the cut-and-pasted text.可知很多学生都是直接从网上下载论文，甚至连里面的广告都还在。说明这是一个论文剽窃现象，故B正确。

2.A 细节题。根据第二段1,2行Some students who steal essays wholly  from the Web, they said, are so lazy they don’t even bother to take the ads off the cut-and-pasted text说明这些学生实在是太懒了，连网页上的广告也不去掉，故A正确。

3.C 推理题。根据倒数3,4行“Teachers are struggling under a mountain of cut-and-pasting to spot whether work was the student’s own or plagiarism.”说明老师要花很多的时间来确定，那些文章是学生自己写的，那些是从网上下载的，故C项正确。

4.C 主旨大意题。本题讲述的是在英国的学生中普遍存在的论文剽窃现象。故C项正确。

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