英语听力精选进阶版 6389

A BBC investigation¹ has highlighted the growing problem of an industry where students can try to deceive teachers by paying to have their coursework written for them.

Tucked away in the windows of newsagents across London, in amongst the postcards advertising² music lessons and childcare, there are some offering to write essays.

The essays are described as "model" assignments that students can use to guide them in their course of study. But according to the BBC's Reeta Chakrabarti, privately³ some of these firms are saying the work can be passed off by students as their own.

A reporter, posing as a student, spoke⁴ to six companies on the phone and when he asked if he could hand in the work provided to his tutor as if it was his own, all the firms clearly said that he could. Our undercover student also learned about smartly-dressed men standing⁵ outside campuses touting⁶ for business, especially towards the end of term, when the pressure on students is the greatest.

Universities are well set up to detect more traditional forms of plagiarism⁸ where extracts of someone else's work are used. But according to the Birmingham City University's professor Robert Clarke, this is much harder to identify in a bespoke⁹ essay, original but written by someone else. He thinks this should concern us all and asks: "Would you want to be treated by a nurse who's cheated on her assignment?"

There are serious implications for any student found to be buying an essay in this way. A student can be stripped of their degree or thrown out of university.

This form of cheating is not a crime, although there are some in academic circles who think it should be. And the offence is the student's.

The phenomenon affects universities in many parts of the world. Earlier this year, Harvard University officials said that dozens of its students were being investigated for allegedly helping¹⁰ each other cheat in an exam.

Up to 125 students in one undergraduate course are suspected of sharing answers or plagiarising.

Quiz 测验

1. Look at the article. What two places might students find offers of essay-writing on their behalf?

Newsagents and outside campuses, where some men tout⁷ for business.

2. Where is it most difficult to detect cheating?

In bespoke essays.

3. Is the following statement true, false or not given? Colleges always place the blame for cheating on the people who sold the essays.

False. The offender¹¹ is the student who has bought the essay and presented it as his own.

4. Look at the article. What word means the practice of copying other people's work and pretending it to be your own?

Plagiarism.

5. What adverb in the text is used to refer to something that is heard around but hasn't been witnessed?

Allegedly.

Glossary 词汇表

to deceive 欺骗

the coursework 作业，功课

tucked away 隐秘的、藏在一边的

a newsagent 报亭

an essay 一篇作文

to pass off 当作

to pose as 冒充

undercover 便衣，卧底

smartly-dressed 衣着时尚得体的

to tout for business 招揽生意

the end of term 学期末

to detect 检测

plagiarism （名词）剽窃

bespoke 定制的

to cheat 欺骗

to be stripped of 被取消资格

to be thrown out 被开除了

academic circles 学术界

an offence 一项犯罪行为

allegedly 据称

to plagiarise （动词）剽窃

1 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

2 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

3 privately   

adv.以私人的身份，悄悄地，私下地

参考例句：

• Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
• The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

5 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

6 touting   

v.兜售( tout的现在分词 )；招揽；侦查；探听赛马情报

参考例句：

• He's been touting his novel around publishers for years. 他几年来一直到处找出版商兜售自己的小说。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Technology industry leaders are touting cars as a hot area for growth. 科技产业领袖吹捧为增长热点地区的汽车。 来自互联网

7 tout   

v.推销，招徕；兜售；吹捧，劝诱

参考例句：

• They say it will let them tout progress in the war.他们称这将有助于鼓吹他们在战争中的成果。
• If your case studies just tout results,don't bother requiring registration to view them.如果你的案例研究只是吹捧结果，就别烦扰别人来注册访问了。

8 plagiarism   

n.剽窃，抄袭

参考例句：

• Teachers in America fight to control cheating and plagiarism.美国老师们努力对付欺骗和剽窃的问题。
• Now he's in real trouble.He's accused of plagiarism.现在他是真遇到麻烦了。他被指控剽窃。

9 bespoke   

adj.（产品）订做的；专做订货的v.预定( bespeak的过去式 )；订（货）；证明；预先请求

参考例句：

• His style of dressing bespoke great self-confidence. 他的衣着风格显得十分自信。
• The haberdasher presented a cap, saying,"Here is the cap your worship bespoke." 帽匠拿出一顶帽子来说：“这就是老爷您定做的那顶。” 来自辞典例句

10 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

11 offender   

n.冒犯者，违反者，犯罪者

参考例句：

• They all sued out a pardon for an offender.他们请求法院赦免一名罪犯。
• The authorities often know that sex offenders will attack again when they are released.当局一般都知道性犯罪者在获释后往往会再次犯案。