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
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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
Not given

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
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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

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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
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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
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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.