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Reading Comprehension

Instructions: Read through the text, answer the questions that follow.

Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with the University Code of Student Conduct, as on enrollment with the University the student has placed themselves under the policies and regulations of the University and all of its duly constituted bodies. Disciplinary authority is exercised through the Student Conduct Committee. The Committee has procedures in place for hearing allegations of misconduct. Copies of the student conduct code are available at the Student Services Office.

Academic dishonesty is never condoned by the University. This includes cheating and plagiarism, which violate the Student Conduct Code and could result in expulsion or failing the course.

Cheating includes but is not limited to obtaining or giving unauthorized help during an examination, getting unauthorized information about the contents of an examination before it is administered, using unauthorized sources of information during an examination, altering or falsifying the record of any grades, altering or supplying answers after an examination has been handed in, falsifying any official University record, and misrepresenting the facts to get exemptions from or extensions to course requirements.

Plagiarism includes but is not limited to submitting any paper or other document, to satisfy an academic requirement, which has been copied either in whole or in part from someone else’s work without identifying that person; failing to identify as a quotation a documented idea that has not been thoroughly assimilated into the student's language and style, or paraphrasing a passage so closely that the reader could be misled as to the source; submitting the same written or oral material in different courses without obtaining authorization from the lecturers involved; or 'dry-labbing', which includes obtaining and using experimental data from fellow students without the express consent of the lecturer, utilizing experimental data and laboratory write-ups from

Other parts of the course or from previous terms during which the course was conducted, and fabricating data to fit the expected results.

Q1 - The Student Services Office familiarizes students with the student code.

 True

 False

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Q2 - Cheats will automatically be expelled because their behavior cannot be condoned.

 True

 False

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Q3 - The text lists all activities that are considered to be cheating.

 True

 False

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Q4 - According to the text, cheating is a more serious offence than plagiarism.

 True

 False

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Q5 - It is never acceptable to paraphrase closely.

 True

 False

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Q6 - Students can submit the same work in different courses as long as they ask their lecturer and it is not their own.

 True

 False

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Q7 - If students want to use other students' laboratory data, they must ask them and the lecturer first.

 True

 False

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Q8 - Data must fit the expected results.

 True

 False

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Q9 Write the summary of the text in two sentences only.

Q10 Give a suitable heading to the text.