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Cheating and Plagiarism

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Cheating and Plagiarism

Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with the University Code of Student Conduct, as on enrollment with the University the student has placed themselves under the policies and regulations of the University and all of its duly constituted bodies. Disciplinary authority is exercised through the Student Conduct Committee. The Committee has procedures in place for hearing allegations of misconduct. Copies of the student conduct code are available at the Student Services Office.

Academic dishonesty is never condoned by the University. This includes cheating and plagiarism, which violate the Student Conduct Code and could result in expulsion or failing the course.

Cheating includes but is not limited to obtaining or giving unauthorized help during an examination, getting unauthorized information about the contents of an examination before it is administered, using unauthorized sources of information during an examination, altering or falsifying the record of any grades, altering or supplying answers after an examination has been handed in, falsifying any official University record, and misrepresenting the facts to get exemptions from or extensions to course requirements.

Plagiarism includes but is not limited to submitting any paper or other document, to satisfy an academic requirement, which has been copied either in whole or in part from someone else’s work without identifying that person; failing to identify as a quotation a documented idea that has not been thoroughly assimilated into the student's language and style, or paraphrasing a passage so closely that the reader could be misled as to the source; submitting the same written or oral material in different courses without obtaining authorization from the lecturers involved; or 'dry-lobbing', which includes obtaining and using experimental data from fellow students without the express consent of the lecturer, utilizing experimental data and laboratory write-ups from other parts of the course or from previous terms during which the course was conducted, and fabricating data to fit the expected results.

Questions

Q1 - The Student Services Office familiarizes students with the student code.

True

False

Not given

Q2 - Cheats will automatically be expelled because their behavior cannot be condoned.

True

False

Not given

Q3 - The text lists all activities that are considered to be cheating.

True

False

Not given

Q4 - According to the text, cheating is a more serious offence than plagiarism.

True

False

Not given

Q5 - It is never acceptable to paraphrase closely.

True

False

Not given

Q6 - Students can submit the same work in different courses as long as they ask their lecturer and it is not their own.

True

False

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Q7 - If students want to use other students' laboratory data, they must ask them and the lecturer first.

True

False

Not given

Q8 - Data must fit the expected results.

True

False

Not given

Gender bias and poverty


Gender bias and poverty

1) __________ between men and women results in poorer health for children and greater 2) __________ for the family, 3) __________ to a new study. The UN agency Unicef found that in places where women are 4) __________ from family decisions, children are more likely to suffer from 5) __________. There would be 13 million 6) __________ malnourished children in South Asia if women had an equal say in the family, Unicef said.

Unicef 7) __________ family decision-making in 30 countries 8) __________ the world. Their chief finding is that equality between men and women is vital to 9) __________ poverty and improving health, especially that of children, in developing countries. The conclusions are contained in the agency's latest report. This report 10) __________ to a greater 11) __________ of opportunities for girls and women in education and work which contributes to disempowerment and poverty. Where men control the household, less money is spent on health care and food for the family, which 12) __________ in poorer health for the children.

An increase in 13) __________ and income-earning opportunities for women would increase their 14) __________ power, the report said. For example, the agency found that 15) __________ has the greater share of household income and assets decides whether those resources will be used for family needs.

Questions

1

Unequal

Inequal

Unequality

Inequality

2

poor

poorness

poverty

impoverished

3

resulting

according

regarding

with regard

4

excluded

exclude

exclusion

excludes

5

ill-nourished

malnourish

malnutrition

ill-nutrition

6

more

few

fewer

least

7

survey

surveying

surveys

surveyed 8

in

around

over

among

9

increase

reduce

increasing

reducing

10

points

indicates

shows

suggests

11

lack

lacking

lacks

lacky

12

leads

result

lead

results

13

employ

employment

employee

employed

14

house

householder

household

home

15

whatever

whoever

whichever

however

The Great Wall of China


The Great Wall of China

Walls and wall building have played a very important role in Chinese culture. These people, from the dim mists of prehistory have been wall-conscious; from the Neolithic period – when ramparts of pounded earth were used - to the Communist Revolution, walls were an essential part of any village. Not only towns and villages; the houses and the temples within them were somehow walled, and the houses also had no windows overlooking the street, thus giving the feeling of wandering around a huge maze. The name for “city” in Chinese (ch’eng) means wall, and over these walled cities, villages, houses and temples presides the god of walls and mounts, whose duties were, and still are, to protect and be responsible for the welfare of the inhabitants. Thus a great and extremely laborious task such as constructing a wall, which was supposed to run throughout the country, must not have seemed such an absurdity.

However, it is indeed a common mistake to perceive the Great Wall as a single architectural structure, and it would also be erroneous to assume that it was built during a single dynasty. For the building of the wall spanned the various dynasties, and each of these dynasties somehow contributed to the refurbishing and the construction of a wall, whose foundations had been laid many centuries ago. It was during the fourth and third century B.C. that each warring state started building walls to protect their kingdoms, both against one another and against the northern nomads. Especially three of these states: the Ch’in, the Chao and the Yen, corresponding respectively to the modern provinces of Shensi, Shanzi and Hopei, over and above building walls that surrounded their kingdoms, also laid the foundations on which Ch’in Shih Huang Di would build his first continuous Great Wall.

The role that the Great Wall played in the growth of Chinese economy was an important one. Throughout the centuries many settlements were established along the new border. The garrison troops were instructed to reclaim wasteland and to plant crops on it, roads and canals

were built, to mention just a few of the works carried out. All these undertakings greatly helped to increase the country’s trade and cultural exchanges with many remote areas and also with the southern, central and western parts of Asia – the formation of the Silk Route. Builders, garrisons, artisans, farmers and peasants left behind a trail of objects, including inscribed tablets, household articles, and written work, which have become extremely valuable archaeological evidence to the study of defence institutions of the Great Wall and the everyday life of these people who lived and died along the wall.

Questions

Q1 - Chinese cities resembled a maze

because they were walled.

because the houses has no external windows.

because the name for cities means 'wall'.

because walls have always been important there.

Q2 - Constructing a wall that ran the length of the country

honoured the god of walls and mounts.

was an absurdly laborious task.

may have made sense within Chinese culture.

made the country look like a huge maze.

Q3 - The Great Wall of China

was built in a single dynasty.

was refurbished in the fourth and third centuries BC.

used existing foundations.

was built by the Ch’in, the Chao and the Yen.

Q4 - Crops were planted

on wasteland.

to reclaim wasteland.

on reclaimed wasteland.

along the canals.

Q5 - The Great Wall

helped build trade only inside China.

helped build trade in China and abroad.

helped build trade only abroad.

helped build trade only to remote areas.

Wole Soyinka


Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka, who was born in 1934, is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. Many 1) __________ him as Africa's most 2) __________ playwright. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, the first African writer to win this honour.

Soyinka has played an active role in Nigeria's 3) __________ history. In 1967, during the Civil War in Nigeria, he was arrested by the Federal Government and put in solitary 4) __________ for attempting to broker a peace between the warring parties. While in prison he wrote 5) __________ which was published in a collection. He was released two years later after international attention was drawn to his 6) __________. His experiences in prison are recounted in a book.He is an outspoken 7) __________ of many Nigerian administrations, and of political tyrannies worldwide, including the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. Much of his 8) __________ has been concerned with "the 9) __________ boot and the irrelevance of the colour of the foot that wears it".

1986 was his most glorious year and occurred during the reigns of several violent and repressive African regimes. The Swedish Academy 10) __________ him the Nobel Prize for Literature as a writer “who in a wide 11) __________ perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of 12) __________”. The foremost Nigerian 13) __________ became the first African Nobel laureate, enshrined forever in the history of world literature. His Nobel Lecture was devoted to South African freedom-fighter Nelson Mandela. Soyinka's 14) __________ speech criticised apartheid and the politics of racial segregation imposed on the population by the Nationalist South African government. That year brought him another 15) __________ award - the Agip Prize for Literature - and he was awarded a Nigerian national decoration: Commander of the Federal Republic.

Questions

1

consider

regard

think

believe

2

distinguish

distinguishable

distinguished

distinguishing

3

politic

politician

politcally

political

4

confinement

confine

confining

configuration

5

poet

poem

poems

poetry

6

in prison

imprisonment

jailer

prisoner

7

criticise

critisism

critic

criticising

8. writings

writer

wright

writing

9

oppress

oppressive

oppression

oppresser

10

granted

awards

awarded

grants

11

culture

cultural

cultured

cultures

12

exist

existance

existence

existential

13

dramatic

drama

dramatically

dramatist

14

acceptance

accept

accepted

accepting

15

literate

literary

literally

literal

Reality TV


Reality Television

Reality television is a genre of television programming which, it is claimed, presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people rather than professional actors. It could be described as a form of artificial or "heightened" documentary. Although the genre has existed in some form or another since the early years of television, the current explosion of popularity dates from around 2000.

Reality television covers a wide range of television programming formats, from game or quiz shows which resemble the frantic, often demeaning programmes produced in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s (a modern example is Gaki no tsukai), to surveillance- or voyeurism- focused productions such as Big Brother.

Critics say that the term "reality television" is somewhat of a misnomer and that such shows frequently portray a modified and highly influenced form of reality, with participants put in exotic locations or abnormal situations, sometimes coached to act in certain ways by off-screen handlers, and with events on screen manipulated through editing and other post-production techniques.

Part of reality television's appeal is due to its ability to place ordinary people in extraordinary situations. For example, on the ABC show, The Bachelor, an eligible male dates a dozen women simultaneously, travelling on extraordinary dates to scenic locales. Reality television also has the potential to turn its participants into national celebrities, outwardly in talent and performance programs such as Pop Idol, though frequently Survivor and Big Brother participants also reach some degree of celebrity.

Some commentators have said that the name "reality television" is an inaccurate description for several styles of program included in the genre. In competition-based programs such as Big Brother and Survivor, and other special-living-environment shows like The Real World, the producers design the format of the show and control the day-to-day activities and the environment, creating a completely fabricated world in which the competition plays out. Producers specifically select the participants, and use carefully designed scenarios, challenges, events, and settings to encourage particular behaviors and conflicts. Mark Burnett, creator of Survivor and other reality shows, has agreed with this assessment, and avoids the word "reality" to describe his shows; he has said, "I tell good stories. It really is not reality TV. It really is unscripted drama."

Questions

Q1 - In the first line, the writer says 'it is claimed' because

they agree with the statement.

everyone agrees with the statement.

no one agrees with the statement.

they want to distance themselves from the statement.

Q2 - Reality television has

always been this popular.

has been popular since well before 2000.

has only been popular since 2000.

has been popular since approximately 2000.

Q3 - Japan

is the only place to produce demeaning TV shows.

has produced demeaning TV shows copied elsewhere.

produced Big Brother.

invented surveillance focused productions.

Q4 - People have criticised reality television because

it is demeaning.

it uses exotic locations.

the name is inaccurate.

it shows reality.

Q5 - Reality TV appeals to some because

it shows eligible males dating women.

it uses exotic locations.

it shows average people in exceptional circumstances.

it can turn ordinary people into celebrities.

Q6 - Pop Idol

turns all its participants into celebrities.

is more likely to turn its particiapants into celebrities than Big Brother.

is less likely to turn its particiapants into celebrities than Big Brother.

is a dating show.

Q7 - The term 'reality television' is inaccurate

for all programs.

just for Big Brother and Survivor.

for talent and performance programs.

for special-living-environment programs.

Q8 - Producers choose the participants

on the ground of talent.

only for special-living-environment shows.

to create conflict among other things.

to make a fabricated world.

Q9 - Paul Burnett

was a participant on Survivor.

is a critic of reality TV.

thinks the term 'reality television' is inaccurate.

writes the script for Survivor.

Q10 - Shows like Survivor

are definitely reality TV.

are scripted.

have good narratives.

are theatre.

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