Zadanie 4. (6 pkt)
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A.
AN EXPLANATION OF THE STUDENTS
BEHAVIOUR
B.
CHEATING DOESN’T PAY
C.
AN EXAMPLE OF PUNISHMENT
D.
CHEATING AS SOMETHING DISHONOURABLE
E.
MODERN TECHNOLOGY AS A THREAT TO
HONESTY AT SCHOOL
F.
SHAMEFUL STATISTICS
G.
NEW METHODS TO STOP PLAGIARISM
4.1.
In Britain, cheating in exams, or school work, is not just seen by the authorities as
undesirable, it is seen by the students themselves as offensive. If you copy somebody else’s
essay, you’re not just taking objective data from them, you’re actually stealing nothing less
than their own personal style and ideas. So to cheat, in the British way of thinking, is seen -
like plagiarism - as somehow shameful.
4.2.
As to cheating, Polish students do not have a good international reputation. An informal study
carried out by English teachers in the late 1990s, confirms this view. It found that 93.3% of
students admitted to cheating at some time during the previous academic year. Cheating,
it seems, is widespread in Polish educational establishments.
4.3.
In Polish schools, cheating is ignored. From a very early age, Polish children have to acquire
a frightful amount of knowledge, and the weight of the books they have to carry to school and
back would drive a camel to suicide. Cheating, therefore, can be viewed as a natural defence
mechanism against the system, but if we go deeper we will see that cheating in school is
a direct consequence of a specific mentality developed in Polish society by centuries of
tyranny.
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4.4.
The most recent plague is plagiarism via the Internet. Students can search by using
commonly-known search engines or go straight to one of the many so-called ‘paper mills’,
where hundreds of essays are on offer for downloading, usually at a very low price.
In the world, where ‘creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster’, is there anything that can be
done to stop the newly-born cyber-cheat?
4.5.
The consequences of cheating, if you get caught in a British school, can be serious.
I remember when I was doing my ‘A’ levels in England, one boy was caught cheating
in an exam. He wasn’t allowed to complete the paper. And for all the other exams he had to
sit by himself at a desk up on a platform, at the front of the room, so that everyone could see
who he was.
4.6.
If you want to better yourself, cheating is worse than useless. If you cheat and get away with
it, you’re tempted to do the same again, not understanding that you’ve effectively done harm
to yourself. You’ve cheated your school, classmates and teacher. You’ve cheated the
education system and society. But most importantly, you have cheated yourself.
adapted from The World of English, 1/2002
PRZENIEŚ ROZWIĄZANIE NA KARTĘ ODPOWIEDZI!
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Official answer key (sibling '...-odpowiedzi' PDF): reading comprehension, headings matched to paragraphs of the 'cheating at school' text. 4.1 D, 4.2 F, 4.3 A, 4.4 E, 4.5 C, 4.6 B. Unused: G.
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