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共用题干 第一篇PlagiarizeLast fall Susan Youngwood,a journalism instructor at St. M...

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问题 共用题干
第一篇

Plagiarize

Last fall Susan Youngwood,a journalism instructor at St. Michael's College,phoned the offices of Columbia Journalism Review(CJR)to pose a question.For an exercise in covering speeches,she
had asked her students to listen to John F. Kennedy's inaugural address and write a story about it.The sixteen students,mostly sophomores,complied with the assignment. However,two students,acting independently,took a short cut,plagiarized New York Times' account of Kennedy's speech,and submitted the Times's words as their own.
The students received an F for the course,the maximum penalty the journalism department demands.But Youngwood wanted more.She wanted examples that told her students why plagiarism was bad,and looked to CJR for guidance."I was curious about what happens on a professional level,"she said."If I am caught plagiarizing,what happens?"
Her question was interesting. But the answers,like so many,are not a crisp black or white.
Their tones of gray mirror the inconsistency with which society treats dozens of other offenses.To be sure,most writers and editors still regard plagiarism as a journalistic evil一the profession's cardinal sin."This is something you never,never do,"says James Fallows,Washington editor of The Atlantic Monthly. Every line of work needs clear rules.If you are a soldier,you don't desert. If you are a writer,you don't steal anyone's prose.It should be the one automatic firing.
But it is not. Punishment is uneven,ranging from severe to virtually nothing even for major offenses.Some editors will keep a plagiarist on staff or will knowingly hire one if talent outweighs the wrong doing.
If convinced Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy can become a talk show host with a hand of admiring followers and Richard Nixon can go to his grave a respected elder statesman,it's hardly surprising the journalists who commit plagiarism can continue their careers at the same publication or move on to some loftier endeavor.
选项 What kind of exercises did Susan Youngwood ask her students to do?
A:Deliver a speech.
B:Report a speech.
C:Find Kennedy's address.
D:Write a story of Kennedy's.
答案D
解析第一段第二句说：“为了让学生练习写关于演讲的报道，她要求听肯尼迪的就职演说，然后写一篇报道。”这里story并不是故事的意思。
第一段最后一句说：“但有两个学生走了捷径，他们抄袭了《纽约时报》关于肯尼迪就职演说的报道，并将《时代周刊》的文字变成了自己的。”
第四段第三句指出：“有些编辑把抄袭者留了下来，或者是明知他是抄袭者，却因为他们的天赋胜过他们的错误而雇用他们。”
最后一段，作者指出：“假如说已确认水门事件是犯罪行为，而Liddy还能成为有许多崇拜者的访谈节目主持人，尼克松也可以作为资深政治家在他去世时受到人们的尊敬，那么新闻工作者犯了抄袭的错误后在原来的出版机构继续工作，或者转换为更崇高的努力。”
第二段中指出：Youngwood女士想用此例来告诉她的学生，抄袭有多么不好并向《哥伦比亚周刊》寻求指导。她问：“我好奇在专业水平上会发生些什么。如果我被发现抄袭了别人的文章，将会受到何种处罚？”第三段第一、二句指出：可是她得到的回答并不干脆利落、是非分明。他们不置可否的口气反映了美国社会对于其他类似事件的不一致看法。”
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