时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2009年(四)月


英语课

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.


We continue our discussion 1 of plagiarism 2. Last week, we said colleges and universities in the United States define 3 plagiarism as representing another person's work as your own. It is considered a kind of cheating.


Professors at American colleges have tried many ways to stop student plagiarism.


Some use online detection 4 services. They also may discuss plagiarism with their students at the start of every term. Some require their students to turn in early versions 5 of term papers, research papers and essays they are writing. This makes it more difficult for students to buy papers from companies that some call "plagiarism mills 6" or "essay mills."


A recent report in The Chronicle of Higher Education described such businesses. Many can be found on the Internet. They sell newly 7 written papers on many subjects. The cost depends on the difficulty of the subject and how soon the paper is needed. The cost could be from twenty to forty dollars a page.


Such companies say their writers have advanced degrees, and will target the papers to any educational level. Investigators 8 say the writers may be working in countries like India, Nigeria or Indonesia and are poorly paid. Most of these companies say their work should only be used as models and should not be turned in as a finished work. But students do it anyway.


Some students claim that they order such papers as a way to organize their research. But many also say they do not have enough time to do the work themselves and are under great pressure to do well in school.


University of Notre Dame 9 anthropology 10 professor Susan Blum wrote about this in a new book, "My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture." She writes that academic cheating is a result of communication failure between students and professors. And she says international students must be sure they know the rules of the college they are attending.


Plagiarism may also be a problem in other countries. A recent e-mail to us from Iran described an incident in an English class. Students were supposed to research tourist places in Iran. But one student copied information from a book. The student changed "China" to "Iran" but forgot to change the names of the places. When the teacher asked about his research, he said: "One of the most beautiful tourist places in Iran is Shanghai."


And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. I'm Barbara Klein.



1 discussion
n.讨论,谈论;论述
  • It is certain he will come to the discussion.他肯定会来参加讨论。
  • After months of discussion,a peace agreement is gradually taking shape.经过几个月的商讨,和平协议渐渐有了眉目。
2 plagiarism
n.剽窃,抄袭
  • 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。
3 define
vt.解释,下定义,阐述,限定,规定
  • Please define the words.请解释这些字的意义。
  • It's hard to define exactly what has changed.很难解释清楚到底发生了什么变化。
4 detection
n.察觉,发觉;侦查,探测
  • He tried to escape detection by disguising himself as an old man.他企图乔装一老人逃过侦察者的耳目。
  • The nose is a remarkable sensitive detection device.嗅觉是一种非常灵敏的控测器官。
5 versions
n.译本( version的名词复数 );版本;(个人对事件的)描述;(原物的)变体
  • There are two versions of the game, a long one and a short one. 这游戏有两个版本,一长一短。
  • When both versions of the story were collated,major discrepancies were found. 在将这个故事的两个版本对照后,找出了主要的不符之处。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 mills
n.磨坊( mill的名词复数 );磨粉机;作坊;工厂
  • He was tall, dark and handsome, like a Mills and Boon hero. 他个头高大、皮肤黝黑、相貌堂堂,像通俗爱情小说的男主角。
  • The captain wants to play Mills as defence in our next game. 队长想让密尔斯在下次比赛中打后卫。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 newly
adv.新近,最近;重新,再度;以新的方式
  • Have you reviewed for this newly published novel?你给这本新出版的小说写书评了吗?
  • It is a newly planted tree and it has not established yet.这是一颗新栽的树,还没有扎下根来。
8 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 dame
n.女士
  • The dame tell of her experience as a wife and mother.这位年长妇女讲了她作妻子和母亲的经验。
  • If you stick around,you'll have to marry that dame.如果再逗留多一会,你就要跟那个夫人结婚。
10 anthropology
n.人类学
  • I believe he has started reading up anthropology.我相信他已开始深入研究人类学。
  • Social anthropology is centrally concerned with the diversity of culture.社会人类学主要关于文化多样性。
学英语单词
acardias
Adephos
advisory funds
aflatoxins M
aluminum plant
Angerboda
Antichristic
aphthovirus
appeal against a charge
appellativeness
aquanaut work
arch contour
astragaluss
batching by weight
Bragg-Gray principle
butt cable
c-series
character specifier
charge storage flip-flop
chargehouse
consistency limit
copy-protections
deaf theater
desire of
double-sideband multiplex equipment
dray-horses
dummy pill
eddr
electric performance
entocythere
erratic variation
eye-brain system
fazzini
fertilizer unit
fifty-second
flash back voltage
FTIR-Ramanbb
fueling-defueling system
gas fuel nozzle
half-days
hand tester
have belief in
heavy dumper
Inspector Poo-sow
iophobia
Klisura
leakage testing socket
lethal dose (LD)
line-of-sight course
linear wave
locomotive repair in works
loppered
man-induced factor
massicotite
Maurer's nomogram
maybelle
mechanical thermal conversion
Monticelli d'Ongina
Mutāli'
Myodin
niobium-stabilized
noncondom
onto something
oological
otono
P.V. diagram
Pan-Asianism
penalty kill
phosphatidate
phrenicoabdominal branches
piston unit area power
positive air pressure control
post-detection integral
purple osier
push-back
pyxine sorediata
ramera
reputational
responsible cabinet
returned cheque
revenues from special assessment
rolling speed control
rotary planing
Ruffini cylinder
saccharine vegetable
San Jaime
scissortailed flycatcher
segur
Semenchenko
shuttle feeler bracket
somesthesis
sports-minded
successour
time multiplexed system
toggle-type tablet machine
trichroic mineral
tubotaiwine
twigil
Vanoise, Messif de la
variable speed generator
Yandina
yard arm group