四级写作训练Topic 28：On Academic Cheating

On Academic Cheating [00:10.97]Nowadays, "academic cheating" has been a high frequency phrase in media reports. [00:19.71]From time to time, [00:21.64]names of some professors appear in scandals of academic cheating. [00:27.68]They deliberately copy other scholars' research results [00:33.14]in their own papers and books. [00:36.09]Why does cheating become a usual phenomenon in this field? [00:41.41]First and foremost, [00:43.65]it is because some scholars lack personal integrity. [00:47.85]In order to obtain higher academic status, [00:51.70]they are willing to betray their conscience. [00:54.62]Second, academic field is inevitably affected [00:59.34]by the climate of pursuing fame and money. [01:03.30]The heated competition for titles and subsidy stimulates academic cheating. [01:09.78]Third, the academic review system does little work [01:14.96]to find out the piratic contents or prevent the illegal articles from being published. [01:22.21]In my opinion, the short-term benefits such as fame and money [01:28.49]are indeed charming to everyone. [01:31.43]However, one should resist this kind of temptations, [01:36.10]for if academic cheating is disclosed, [01:39.45]one may lose not only his reputation and money, [01:43.94]but also his freedom.