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While Jennifer was at home taking an online exam for her business law class, a monitor(监控器) a few hundred miles away was watching her every move.

Using a web camera equipped in Jennifer's Los Angeles apartment, the monitor in Phoenix tracked how frequently her eyes moved from the computer screen and listened for the secret sounds of a possible helper in the room. Her Internet access was locked - remotely - to prevent Internet searches, and her typing style was analyzed to make sure she was who she said she was: Did she enter her student number at the same speed as she had in the past? Or was she slowing down?

In the battle against cheating, this is the cutting edge and a key to encourage honesty in the booming field of online education. The technology gives trust to the entire system, to the institution and to online education in general. Only with solid measures against cheating, experts say, can Internet universities show that their exams and diplomas are valid - that students haven't just searched the Internet to get the right answers.

Although online classes have existed for more than a decade, the concern over cheating has become sharper in the last year with the growth of "open online courses." Private colleges, public universities and corporations are jumping into the online education field, spending millions of dollars to attract potential students, while also taking steps to help guarantee honesty at a distance.

Aside from the web cameras, a number of other high-tech methods are becoming increasingly popular. Among them are programs that check students' identities using personal information, such as the telephone number they once used.

Other programs can produce unique exam by drawing on a large list of questions and can recognize possible cheaters by analyzing whether difficult test questions are answered at the same speed as easy ones. As in many university classes, term papers are scanned against some large Internet data banks for cheating.

阅读试题

41. Why was Jennifer watched in annoying exam?

A. To correct her typing mistakes.

B. To find her secrets in the room.

C. to prevent her form slowing down.

D.To keep her from dishonest behaviors.

42. The underlined expression cutting edge in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.

A. advanced technique

B. sharpening tool

C. effective rule

D. dividing line

43. For internet universities, exams and diplomas will be valid if _____.

A. they can attract potential students

B. they can defeat academic cheating

C. they offer students online help

D. they offer many online courses

44. Some programs can find out possible cheaters by _____.

A. checking the question answering speed

B. producing a large number of question

C. scanning the Internet test question

D. giving difficult test question

45.Which of the following is the best title of this passage?

A. The Advantages of Online Exams

B. The High-tech Methods in Online Courses

C. The Fight against Cheating in Online Education

D. The War against the Booming of Online Education

参考译文

当珍妮弗正在家参加她的商业法在线考试时，几百英里外有一个监视器正在看着她的一举一动。

在詹妮弗洛杉矶的公寓里安装一个网络摄像头，在Phoenix的班长就能追踪到她的眼睛离开过屏幕几次，也能听到房间里有可能是帮手的人发出的细微的声音。为了防止她上网搜索，她的互联网接入口由远程控制封锁，并且对她的打字风格进行了分析，以确保她是她自己：她能保持与过去一样的速度用她的学号登入界面吗？还是她慢下来了？

在蓬勃发展的网络教育领域，要与作弊斗争，这还只是皮毛，关键是要鼓励诚信。一般来说，技术给予整个系统、机构以及在线教育以信任。专家表示，只有坚定帝实施反对作弊的措施，网络大学的考试和证书才是有效的，而学生们也不仅仅是在网上搜索就能得到正确答案。

虽然在线课程已经存在了十多年，但是随着更多公开课程的开放，有关作弊的担忧在前一年变得尤为尖锐。私立大学、公立大学和企业都纷纷加入在线教育领域，花费数百万美元来吸引生源，同时采取措施帮助学生保证永远诚实。

除了网络摄像头之外，其他一些高科技方法也变得越来越受欢迎。几乎所有的程序都要核对学生的身份，要使用学生的个人信息，比如他们曾经的电话号码。

通过大量的问题列举，其他课程可以形成独特的考试方式。通过对回答难易程度不同的测试问题能否采用同样的速度进行分析，可以辨别出潜在的考试作弊者。在许多大学课程中，为了防止作弊，学期论文都要对一些大型互联网数据库进行扫描。

答案解析

41. D 考查细节理解。本文前两段通过Jennifer的一次网络考试引出话题，根据第三段可以判断出，用监控器观察Jennifer是为了防止她在网络考试中作弊。

42. A 考查词义猜测。根据第三段画线词所在句的下一句中的"The technology gives trust to the entire system"可以判断出，cutting edge应该指的是technology，故与A项意思最接近。

43. B 考查细节理解。根据第三段中的"Only with solid measures against cheating, experts say, can Internet universities show that their exams"and diplomas are valid"可知答案。

44. A 考查细节理解。根据最后一段中的"Other programs...can recognize possible cheaters by analyzing whether difficult test questions are answered at the same speed as easy ones."可知答案。

45. C 考查标题判断。本文主要介绍在当今社会，人们是如何对抗网络考试作弊的，故C项正确。