A.salaries and conditions are better abroad.
B.standards are higher at foreign universities.
C.they are eager for new knowledge.
D.their governments encourage them to travel.
2.The writer says that travel was important in the past because it.
A.led to economic progress.
B.was a way of spreading ideas.
C.made new ideas less shocking.
D.broke down political barriers.
3.According to the passage, the recent growth in air travel has meant that.
A.more students from remote areas can attend university.
B.universities can be built in remoter places.
C.scholars can meet each other more easily.
D.textbooks have wide circulation.
4.The writer thinks that the growth of specialist societies and periodicals has helped scholars to.
A.cut down research costs.
B.keep up with current developments.
C.spend less time traveling.
D.develop their ideas more quickly.
5.In the writer s opinion, interdisciplinary studies are important because they.
A.encourage scholars to concentrate on their own specializations.
B.allow scholars to change disciplines more easily.
C.make scholars aware of problems outside their own field.
D.allow overworked scholars to relax.
James Karge Taylor was astonished at the rampant cheating taking place in his jazz-history class at the University of Arizona.Students looked over each other s shoulders, devised coughing codes to communicate to friends, and flashed answers on the backs of their hands while pretending to stretch.
He once caught one student using his cell phone to send answers to a friend s pager.The code“54 * 2”,for instance, meant the answer to question 54 was B.Karge Taylor kicked them out of his classroom and gave both an F.
Incidents such as these are all too common.In recent years many colleges and universities have reported an increase in plagiarism, unauthorized collusions on assignments and cheating on tests.
In research conducted at 31 schools over the past decade, Rutgers University professor Donald McCabe has found that nearly 70 percent of students admit to cheating at some point during college, with over 15 percent reporting that they were, in McCabe s words,“serious, repetitive cheaters”.
While this increase has been blamed on many factors, including a declining emphasis on moral values in the home and school, without question it s never been easier to cheat.With the Internet,students have access to a treasure-trove (宝库) of information they can pinch without proper attribution.“There s a cowboy feeling about the Internet that the information is out there for everybody to use as they see fit，”says Michele Goldfarb, director of the Office of Student Conduct at the University of Pennsylvania.
In a composition class, University of Texas instructor Sharan Daniel asked students to write an evaluative argument,which could include reviewing a contemporary film.One student chose a Bruce Willis movie.Daniel suspected plagiarism when the paper turned in was different in style from the student s previous work.She did a search on the Internet and found the review the student had lifted (窃取) in its entirety.
Experts say that academic cheating begins as early as middle school, and often becomes a well-honed habit by high school.A recent survey of 3, 100 high-achieving students revealed 80 percent of the best and brightest admitted cheating in school, up five percent from the year before.More than half said it was“no big deal”. Not surprisingly, 36 percent of the reported cheating cases at Georgetown University were brought against freshmen during the past three academic years.
Some rationalize that it s okay to cheat if the course is not in their major but is required for graduating.Others assume it s a victimless offense.One University of Texas student,in a posting on an Internet forum on cheating,went so far as to defend it as a legitimate form of learning.“I personally don t cheat unless I learn something from it，”the student wrote.“If that involves looking at one answer on a quiz, I think the person is more likely to remember that one answer since they had to resort to cheating to obtain it.”
1.At the University of Arizona students cheated on tests in the following ways except.
A.looking over each other s shoulders.
B.inventing coughing signals.
C.communicating to their friends.
D.flashing answers while pretending to stretch.
2.It can be inferred from the passage that.
A.the development of the Internet has made it easier for the students to cheat on testsB.students can buy ready-made essays either from the Internet or from their schoolmates.
C.students are very cooperative when cheating on tests.
D.students cheat on tests in various classes.
3.By“no big deal”the students mean that.
A.cheating was not a big problem.
B.they had made a deal with the teachers.
C.they paid a price for cheating.
D.they were accused of cheating by the universities.
4.The student find themselves the following excuses for cheating except that.
A.the course in which they cheat is not their major.
B.the course in which they cheat is required for graduating.
C.cheating is harmless because they offend nobody.
D.cheating is okay because they are freshmen.
5.What s the author s attitude toward cheating?A.He partly agrees with cheating.B.He hates cheating.
C.He disfavours cheating.D.He advocates cheating.
