内师大研研究生英语期末考试复习资料—英语1(unit10)

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Unit 10

一、Vocabulary

Part A

1. To most women, diamond is an irresistible temptation.

2. Don’t worry. Even if the road is cut off by snow, we have sufficient food to last a week.

3. Much should be taken into consideration when one budgets for a research project.

4. People doubt whether prison is the best sanction against a crime like this throughout the country.

5. I don’t think he is qualified for the position. He panics easily and is therefore useless in an emergency.

6. With a 30-year effort, the company has built a reputation of innovative designs, and quality manufacturing.

7. A suspected kidnapper was caught after a rush-hour police chase along a London Underground tunnel yesterday.

8. Intellectual property rights represent exclusive rights for intellectual wealth created in the field of science, technology, literature and arts.

9. Since there is no better way to evaluate one’s intelligence, we have to place our reliance on IQ tests.

10. I hereby affirm that all the information given in this form is true and correct.

Part B

1. If someone is honest and firm in his moral principles, he is a man with ________.

A. optimum B. ethnics C. reputation D. integrity

2. The director tried to wave aside these issues. He said they are _____ details and could be settled later.

A. trivial B. partial C. exclusive D. extra

3. The symbols and ___ used in this document are essentially those in current use in North America.

A. signatures B. labels C. notations D. notes

4. In China ginger is not only a spice for food but also a ________ for colds.

A. strive B. remedy C. harness D. mend

5. We can’t just wait for new technologies to solve our problem. We shall make_____use of existing technology.

A. proactive B. impeccable C. egregious D. optimal

6. I was ________ by the report about a new plagiarism detection software.

A. intrigued B. marred C. suspected D. recruited

7. The taxis in this small town have no meters so it is essential to ________ the fare before setting off.

A. communicate B. negotiate C. determine D. budget

8. The organization aims to support projects which _______ the issue of campus integrity.

A. affirm B. implement C. Designate D. address

9. You need to ________ someone to take over your affairs while you are in hospital.

A. direct B. assignate C. designate D. attribute

10. Using another person’s phrases or sentences without putting quotation marks around them is considered ________.

A. temptation B. plagiarism C. convenience D. strategy

二、Close

Students are getting better and better at cheating, and it’s time for college faculty and administrators to do something about it. The latest scandal to rock the academic world happened last month at the University of Maryland, where 12 students in the undergraduate business school were 1) accused of using their cell phones and PDAs to cheat on an exam.

Academic cheating has been around ever 2) since the first time a student successfully stole an answer key, or took someone else’s intellectual 3) property and put their own name on it. What’s new is how easily students are exploiting 4) technology to get the right answers –– or produce the perfect essay –– without their professors 5) suspecting a thing.

Whether or not it is always 6) acknowledged, students and professors often stand on 7) opposite sides of a digital divide. The current generation of college kids has grown up on 8) instant communication in the form of computers, the Internet and cell phones. They 9) adapt quickly to new technology. Most professors, however, are constantly playing a 10) catch-up game when it comes to technological gadgets.

Sending signals with pencil-tapping or hand gestures used to be the most 11) sophisticated way students could cheat on exams in the classroom. They could also steal answer keys and memorize them in 12) advance, or write 13) answers on small pieces of paper and sneak them into the exam room. Now, students have many more 14) options, thanks to the explosion of technology in the past 15) decade. Students can 16) store information on their calculators and 17) access them discreetly during tests –– making it more 18) difficult for watchful exam proctors to detect cheating.

The creation of committees to 19) prevent hi-tech academic fraud would help make professors aware of such cheating tools and help college campuses 20) bridge the digital divide between faculty and students. In the meantime, professors and students should work hard to prevent a repeat of what happened at the University of Maryland.