問題詳情

The student thieves on campus need to look out. With the emergence of a new website to help teachers catch student plagiarists, these student thieves on campus have every reason to get worried.Some students actually research and write their term papers in the old-fashioned way. 19 To prevent collegiate copycats, two graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley have devised a programthat compares a student’s submission with every other term paper on the Web.“We essentially search a hundred million web pages on the Internet, interfacing with the top 20 search engines,” said John Barrie, of www.plagiarism.com. “We also compare that with our local database of termpapers.” Teachers who sign up can send their students’ papers to the website. 20 “We code every sentence that was a word-for-word match with another sentence, either contained on the Internet or within ourdatabase,” Barrie said. David Presti, a U.C. Berkeley professor who teaches neurobiology, told his class hewould use the program. Undaunted, numerous students plagiarized anyway. “We ran all 300 papers through the program and found 45 of them, or 15 percent of students, had cut and pasted significant amounts ofmaterial from various World Wide Web sites without citations,” Presti said. 21 They can show theinstructors “that indeed they haven’t got their material from the Internet or some other source,” Barrie said.Competition is tough at prestigious universities like U.C. Berkeley. Some students welcome the Internet researchwatchdog, considering it a way to level the academic playing field. “I think it’s justified academically. Plagiarizing iswrong,” one said.
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(A) Some universities are suing those companies that sell term papers over the Internet.
(B) Others, however, just copy fake ones off the Internet and turn them in as their works.
(C) Students falsely accused can have the opportunity to defend themselves.
(D) The originality of the work, or lack thereof, becomes painfully clear within 24 hours.

參考答案

答案：B
難度：簡單0.700637
統計：A(31),B(220),C(32),D(9),E(1)

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