A scandal (丑闻) at the University of Virginia last week has focused attention
on the battle against copying from the Internet,which has made cheating (欺骗) in
the Information Age easier,faster and-until now-harder to catch.
In one case,122 students are guilty of copying information for a physics
exam.They could be expelled (开除) or lose their recently earned degrees from the
school in Charlottesville,Virginia,U.S.A.
Suspicion (怀疑) surfaced when a student who scored poorly on a paper
complained to physics Professor Louis Bloomfield that some people were getting
better grades by copying others' work.
Bloomfield created a computer program to search for similar phrasing of six
consecutive (连续的) words or more.He ran 1,500 term papers handed in by email
over the last few years through the program and found 122 had similar
wording-including 60 papers that were nearly the same.His widely reported
findings illustrate how some have taken advantage of the online world.
"The school is really struggling with this issue of how easy it is to copy
from the Net," said Wendy Robinson,who teaches an "Ethics（道德）and the Internet"
course at Duke University."It really runs wild on campuses." At the urging of
university officials,more than a dozen states have fought back by passing laws
against the sale of term papers that can be passed off as students' own work.
1.A professor at a university not only has to
teach but,according to this passage,has to watch out for people who are not
honest.
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2.Professor Bloomfield learned about dishonest students through a report from other students.
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3.According to the author's opinion,
Bloomfield's findings show that dishonest students in the information age are
easy to catch.
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4.The University of Virginia students who copied papers were kicked out.
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5.To make sure that you do not get caught
copying papers you should make sure no more than five consecutive words are
copied at a time.
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