Passage 4
We are in the midst of a heated public debate over the benefits of online education.
Yet while journalists and educators weigh in on the pros and cons of online courses , I’ve online classes can lead to an increase in academic dishonesty . This past semester,I caught quite a few Of my students at Cal State North ridge engaging in academic dishonesty .
I think that the incidents of cheating have increased for two interconnecting reasons .The first is the trend of packing as many students as possible into course sections as a means of saving money .The second is the structure of the online courses themselves . It is evident that these two intertwining(结) trends can serve to produce academic cheating and plagiarism(剽窃).
In the wake of the Great Recession and the following budget crisis , the dean of one of the colleges I teach in increased class size by as many as 50 students in an attempt to save money.One of the non - online courses I teach was intended for 32 to 35 pupils . But when I taught the course last semester , it was composed of 82 students.
Online courses serve to exacerbate(加剧)the trend toward larger class sizes.The primary motive for the increase in online courses is that they do not require physical classroom space .This allows campus administrators t o cut costs by increasing the number of students enrolled in a particular course section even if they don ' t have classrooms .
What's more,when students take classes online,the professor does not have face-to-face contact with the vast majority of the students enrolled in the course.As a result , one can never be sure that the students are doing their own work for there is little to stop them from paying another student to take their exams for them.It is evident that both increased class sizes without any accompanying teaching assistance and the structure of online courses by themselves , makes it easier for students to cheat . This not only cheapens the college but also makes the whole of a college education meaningless.
The writer of this passage is most probably a________.
根据文章第二段最后一句, this past semester, i caught quite a few of my students at Cal State northridge engaging in academic dishonesty 可是写这篇文章的应该是个教授。
In the writer’s opinion , one reason for the increase in academic dishonesty is that________.
第三段给出了学生学术造假的原因,其一就是为了节约成本所以把很多学生放入一个班级,所以选 B: class sizes are too large 班级太大。
The primary motive for the increase in online courses is that________.
根据第五段第二句, the primary motive for the increase in online courses is that they do not require physical classroom space 所以选 C: they do not need physical classroom space。
One form of the academic dishonesty mentioned in the passage is that________.
根据倒数第二段第二行 As a result , one can never be sure that the students are doing their own work for there is little to stop them from paying another student to take their exams for then。选 D: students can ask someone else to take exams,学生有可能找人替考。
The writer’s altitude toward on line education is________.
作者认为网络课程是学生学术造假的一个原因,所以很显然态度是否定的,选 A: negative。