【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[听力原文] Your assignment this term will be to write two major research papers. One of the most important things about writing a research paper is giving proper credit for your sources of information. Failure to do this is called plagiarism, which is a form of intellectual dishonesty. Plagiarism is a kind of stealing, or at least, an unauthorized borrowing of someone else's ideas. Sometimes, inexperienced students will plagiarize unintentionally, and then be surprised when the teacher won't accept their papers, or gives them a failing grade. The best way to avoid unintentional plagiarizing is to be very careful in gathering your information as you take notes on books and magazine articles about the topic you've selected. Firstly, try to assimilate the information thoroughly. Secondly, write it down in your own words. This is called paraphrasing. If you do a good job of paraphrasing, you'll capture the main idea from your source without actually using any phrases from it. Most of your notes should probably be paraphrases. However, occasionally you may find something you wish to quote directly in your research paper. In this case, be sure that you copy the quotation precisely in your note, and enclose it in quotation marks. That way when you are finalizing your research paper, you'll be able to remember which of your notes are direct quotes, and which are your own summaries of the material. You can then incorporate them appropriately and give the original author proper credit. What kind of assignment is the professor discussing with the students? 本题问教授正在与学生讨论什么作业。在文章开头教授对学生说，这学期的作业是写两篇重要的研究论文，接下来讲解了写论文的注意事项，由此可知，本题选D。