研究生英语阅读教程(基础级2版)

READING COMPREHENSION TEST I

(45 minutes, 25 questions, 4 points each)

Directions: In this test, there are five short passages. Read each passage carefully, and choose the best choice to answer the questions.

Passage One

A study released last week indicates that American students not only have no problem with cheating, but that often, teachers close their eyes to it.

The survey was conducted by Professor Donald L. McCabe of Rutgers University, New Jersey, founder and president of the Center for Academic Integrity. This national association (society) of more than 250 colleges is dedicated to (intended to) fostering (develop/ cultivate) scholastic (academic) honesty. According to the survey of 4, 500 students, cheating was found to be in full sway (common) , with 97 percent admitting to at least one instance of cheating, from copying homework to duplicating (copying) answers on tests.

Erika Karres, an assistant education professor (associate professor) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studied student cheating patterns (rules) for more than 30 years said: "Nowadays parents may make little of (ignore) their child's mistake by thinking ' he was cheating, but it's not like he's taking drugs' or ` she's pregnant.'

As for teachers, Karres claims some do not want to go through the annoyance of having to "press (report) the point". Who has time to have a meeting after school with all the records, materials, and statements? And even if that meeting occurs, parents may blame the teacher because he or she did not take the time to change the order of test questions for their various classes. Still (Furthermore), she adds, many teachers are wide-awake (on alert). For example, English teachers may check word clusters (字符串) on the Internet for signs of fraud (cheating) or file away samples of student writing to compare with vocabulary and grammar used in later papers. No matter what the cheaters' motives are, educators agree the computer has greatly contributed to (lead) their wrongdoing (offense). With an Internet hook up, cheating is just a click away.

Many U. S. colleges have recently rewritten the policy on cheating to emphasize academic integrity and "commitment to fundamental values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility".

1. The study conducted by Professor McCabe reveals that _____.

A. college authorities don't take cheating very seriously

B. college teachers encourage their students to cheat

C. cheating has become a serious problem with almost all the students

D. scholastic honesty is no longer valued in American colleges

2. According to Erika Karres, parents _____.

A. don't think of cheating as their children's behavioral mistake

B. think that cheating is as bad as drug abuse

C. make little of their girls' being pregnant

D. think many other problems should draw more attention than cheating

3. Teachers close their eyes to cheating because _____.

A. they think it doesn't help to have a meeting discussing cheating problems