Name: ………………………………………..

I. READING
BLOCK MOBILE PHONES
It is feared that thousands of pupils may be using their phones to send text messages to friends to get
answers or to access the Internet during tests. Jean Underwood, a professor at Nottingham Trent University
was asked by the UK government to prepare a report on the rise of technology-driven cheating. She said
"Digital technologies have made cheating possible for everyone. It is no longer available just for the
knowing few but is there for the majority".
The report has made a series of recommendations:
 Airport-style security scanners should be installed to stop candidates taking in phones and other
technology.
 Pupils should sit exams in rooms with no mobile phone reception.
 Large universities should fingerprint students to stop friends taking exams for them, and use biometrics to
prevent impersonation.
 While technological solutions to the prevention of cheating are available, they are unlikely to prove to be a
complete solution and should be used together with more traditional methods of prevention and
monitoring.
 The first step is to promote an environment where cheating is not acceptable through the use of honour
codes to which both staff and students feel loyal. Such environments help students resist peer pressure to
cheat.
 Tests and examinations should be designed to reduce opportunities for cheating within or beyond the
examination hall.
 Tests should be administered in ways that prevent cheating.
 Encrypted tests (i.e. tests that can only be accessed on computer with special permission) might be
particularly useful for test centres where students are unknown to the examining staff.
Professor Underwood warned that academic dishonesty was not found just in universities, and that it was
as bad, if not worse, in secondary schools, with evidence suggesting the problem was worsening. In the
report, she added that while there remains some doubt over whether the amount of cheating is increasing, it
is widely recognised that it is a very significant problem, and that although much of the research has
focused on the higher education sector, the school level data available suggests that the problem is more,
not less serious, in secondary schools.
Professor Underwood's report said much of the research about copying, plagiarism and technology focused
on the Internet but she warned that the web was only the tip of the iceberg. She wrote, "Mobile
technologies make plagiarism and related activities possible in the examination hall. In small examination
sites monitored by attentive staff, students have limited opportunities to use mobile devices for cheating.
However, in larger test centres with many students, mobile phones and PDAs make it easy for students to
exchange notes with other exam takers, receive text messages from classmates outside the lecture hall, and
search the web".
An education expert commented that technological developments are making it difficult for children to
distinguish between what is their own intellectual achievement and what is taken or stolen from others. He
believed that this is one of the reasons why there has been such an increase in plagiarism at all levels of
education. Pupils are used to seeing material come off the web and thinking of it as 'theirs'.
Questions 1-4
Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage?
Write
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 TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
1. It is believed that pupils contact friends to get help during their exams.
2. Professor Underwood carried out a survey of cheating in schools.
3. Currently the number of people who are able to carry out technology-driven cheating is still only a few.
4. The spread of technology means that cheating has become easier.
Questions 5 -9
Look at the following statements (Questions 5-9) and the recommendations (A-H) made in the reading
passage. Match each statement with the correct recommendation, (A-H).
5. Various kinds of physical identity checks should be used.
6. Students should be encouraged to value honesty.
7. Technological devices should not be allowed into exam rooms .
8. The prevention of cheating should be a consideration in the organisation of tests.
9. The problem of cheating should be solved in both technological and traditional ways.
Questions 10-13
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
10. According to Professor Underwood, cheating
A in schools has been well researched .
B may be more common in schools than in universities.
C is always difficult for examination staff to spot.
D has gone on in universities for a long time.
11. Professor Underwood believes that mobile phones
A are mainly used in exam rooms to access the Internet.
B can be used by staff in examination halls to prevent cheating .
C allow students to get exam questions before they start tests.
D are difficult to use when examination rooms are set up properly.
12. One reason for cheating suggested by an expert is that children
A are under too much time pressure.
B have become more dishonest about their work.
C feel that they own work which they have printed from the web.
D value the appearance more than the quality of their work.
13. The report as a whole
A suggests that cheating is a problem that can be solved.
B recommends educational organisations should use a range of measures to reduce cheating.
C indicates that academic cheating is something that will increase.
D shows that the British government has decided to accept Professor Underwood's
recommendations.

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Task 1: The table below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in
Australia in 1999.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where
relevant. Write at least 150 words.

Task 2: Some people think children are more successful in foreign language studies than adults.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
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