2008年6月英语六级阅读套题模拟（一）
Unit1 Passage 1
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Cheating:“But Everybody's Doing It”
Digital Deception
The Kansas State University junior was desperate. Already on academic probation after stumbling through a shaky sophomore year while battling a severe disease, he was about to fail the political science for missing two exams. Another F could mean suspension, which would put at risk the college degree he'd always counted on. He couldn't take that chance. Instead, he took a different one.
Thanks to a part-time job in the university's information-technology department, the young man — a born-and-bred Midwesterner who loved reading and played trumpet in his high school band — had access to his professor's online grade book. With a few quick keystrokes, he was able to give himself passing scores for the tests he hadn't taken. He wasn't clever enough, though, to cover his tracks. He was soon caught and suspended — and has been racked (折磨) with guilt ever since.
“There is no excuse or justification for my actions,” he wrote to the university's Honor Council in the wake of the spring 2005 episode. (He prefers to remain anonymous.) The reason for his violation, he added, was simple: “I did what I did out of panic.”
While this student and his professors say the incident resulted from a momentary lapse in judgment, the sad fact is that, in a broader sense, it's hardly an isolated act. There's plenty to suggest that academic cheating is epidemic in the country's high schools and colleges. Consider a few examples: nine business students at the University of Maryland caught receiving textmessaged answers on their cell phones during an accounting exam; a Texas teen criminally charged for selling stolen test answers — allegedly swiped via a keystroke-decoding device affixed to a teacher's computer — to fellow students; seven Kansas State students in one class accused of plagiarizing papers off the Internet.
Beyond the anecdotes, experts point to a stream of data — much of it from students themselves — that indicates cheating is rampant. A report last June by Rutgers University professor Donald McCabe for The Center for Academic Integrity showed 70 percent of students at 60 colleges admitting to some cheating within the previous year; one in four admitted to engaging in serious cheating (copying from another student, using concealed notes, or helping someone else cheat). McCabe's high school findings were similarly grim: Of 18,000 high school students surveyed across the country over the past four years, 70 percent of those in public schools admitted to at least one case of serious test cheating; about six in ten admitted to some form of plagiarism. Just under half of all private school students acknowledged similar lapses.
Unit 1 A recent Gallup survey reinforced those findings. Polling one group of 13to 17yearolds in 2003 and another in 2004, Gallup reported that 65 percent cited “a great
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