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London-Lazy students can now give up on work altogether as two Oxford University students have made scores of A-grade essays on the website for students to copy.

The essays are on the new website, “revise.it”

The website includes an “EssayLab” designed to make cheating (舞弊) as effective and effortless as possible.

Its homepage announces to surfers (網(wǎng)上沖浪者): “The revise.it EssayLab is a bank of hundreds of A-Level essays covering popular topics.”

“Next time you are asked to write an essay, why not see what we have on the subject-if you are in a lazy state of mind you can even use our guide to writing the essays and then just hand them in.”

Nick Rose and Jordan Mayo, both 19 and first from Manchester, spent much of their first year as students at the university setting up the website. There is no charge for downloading the essays.

“I have never been very good at essay writing,” Rose admitted. “We don’t see essay bank as a cheating way. It’s a surprising valuable resource. You can learn a lot by reading other people’s work on the subject.”

Among other tips, the website suggests inventing important speeches to give essays extra weight: “Popular people to quote (引用) are Douglass Hurd or Disraeli.”

Hurd was a foreign secretary in the 1980s and Disraeli was a 19th century prime minister.

Teachers are expressing their opinions by e-mail that they are angry about the website that “encourages students to cheat”, but students disagree.

According to Rose: “Exams are a fight. It’s us against them.”

1.It can be inferred from this passage that ______.

A. students who visit the website “revise. it” are all lazy

B. students in Oxford University are all lazy

C. websites in Oxford University are all set up by students

D. websites can provide people with different kinds of information

2.Nick Rose and Jordan Mayo set up their website for the purpose of ______.

A. helping students to cheat in exams

B. helping students to improve their writing

C. making money to pay for their schooling

D. making their teacher free

3.What Rose said at last suggests that in England ______.

A. it is difficult for students to pass their exams

B. it is difficult for teachers to finish their teaching

C. students are not satisfied with the education system

D. students are too lazy to learn anything

Answer 1

1.D

2.B

3.C

【解析】

試題分析：牛津大學(xué)的兩名學(xué)生創(chuàng)建了一個網(wǎng)站“revise.it”，他們把一些優(yōu)秀的文章放到上面供學(xué)生們下載使用。他們不認(rèn)為這是一種鼓勵作弊的行為。

1.two Oxford University students have made scores of A-grade essays on the website”可知，牛津大學(xué)兩名學(xué)生創(chuàng)建了一個網(wǎng)站，并非牛津大學(xué)所有的網(wǎng)站都是由學(xué)生創(chuàng)建的；根據(jù)第四段“if you are in a lazy state of mind you can even use our guide to writing the essays”可知，不想寫文章的時候，學(xué)生可以訪問這個網(wǎng)站，借鑒上面的文章，并非所有訪問這個網(wǎng)站的學(xué)生都是懶惰的，更不能說牛津大學(xué)所有的學(xué)生都是懶惰的，前三項是顛倒事實，故選D。

2.I have never been very good at essay writing,...It’s a surprising valuable resource. You can learn a lot by reading other people’s work on the subject.”可知，他們創(chuàng)建網(wǎng)站的目的是為學(xué)生提供寫作的資料，幫助他們提高寫作水平，故選B。

3.Exams are a fight. It’s us against them.”可知，學(xué)生們在與考試作斗爭，說明他們對教育體制感到不滿，fight against與......作斗爭，故選C。

考點：教育類短文閱讀