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[单项选择]In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks
They text their friends all day long. At night, they do research for their term papers on laptops and commune with their parents on Skype. But as they walk the paths of Hamilton College, a poster-perfect liberal arts school in this upstate village, students are still hauling around bulky, old-fashioned textbooks-and loving it.
"The screen won’t go blank," said Faton Begolli, a junior from Boston. "There can’t be a virus. It wouldn’t be the same without books. They’ve defined ’academia’ (学术) for a thousand years."
Though the world of print is receding before a tide of digital books, blogs and other Web sites, a generation of college students growing up with technology appears to be holding fast to traditional textbooks. That loyalty comes at a price. Textbooks are expensive-a year’s worth can cost $700 to $900-and students’ frustrations with the expense, as well as the emergence of new technology, have produced a perpl
A. They are too heavy to carry
B. They take up too much space.
C. They cost too much money.
D. They often go out of print.
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Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age
At Rhode Island College, a freshman copied and pasted from a Web site’s frequently asked questions page about homelessness—and did not think he needed to credit a source in his assignment because the page did not include author information.
At DePaul University, the tip-off (爆料) to one student’s copying was the purple shade of several paragraphs he had lifted from the Web; when confronted by a writing tutor his professor had sent him to, he was not defensive—he just wanted to know how to change purple text to black.
And at the University of Maryland, a student critisized for copying from Wikipedia in a paper on the Great Depression said he thought its entries—unsigned and collectively written—did not need to be credited since they counted, essentially, as common knowledge.
Professors used to deal with plagiarism(抄袭) by warning students to give credit to others to fol
A. innocent
B. ignorant
C. defensive
D. regretted
[单项选择](Despite) his old (age), he is still (very) (healthful) and often works in the field.
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
[单项选择]Starfish (cling to) stones by the suction of their innumerable tube feet.
A. attract
B. destroy
C. swim over to
D. hold fast to
