attention retain_研究生基础综合英语unit7期末考试复习资料

Unit 7 练习Title The Cult of Celebrity Professors

Structure two

celebrities

Stephen

Ambrose

He was an arguably America’s favorite historian. Five of his books

consist of 1. from other historians.

Doris

Kearns

Goodwin

Her solution to the plagiarism charges against her has arguably

been 2. the charges themselves. One of her chief

victims 3. so that it was quietly mollified.

4.

hurled at

celebrity

professors

Take compulsive lying. Joseph Ellis told the students that he had fought in

Vietnam when the closest he came to combat was sitting in a university library.

5. Professor Paul Krugman had received ＄37,500 from

Enron when he savaged the Bush administration for its links to the energy firm.

Take general flatulence. Larry Summers and Cornel West had 6. ,

which alerted the world to the latter’s recent work.

two big

arguments

7.

those what

so-called

celebrities

do

1. They help to 8. ideas. They give educated laypeople a chance to get

their information from real authorities rather than mere journalists.

2. They help to retain 9. in academia.

Conclusi on The honest celebrity professors promote the development of the society by spreading academic research output. The dishonest minority pay for their sins at the cost of 10. .

Reference answers:

1. extensive ―borrowings‖

2. worse than

3. was paid money

4. other/three charges

5. take hypocrisy

6. a squabble

7. in favor of 8. circulate 9. talented people

10. their cherished reputations

The Cult of Celebrity Professors

—Celebrity professors are a good thing. Really!

Few species have as many natural enemies as the celebrity professor. Other academics envy their money and fame; journalists dislike their cleverer-than-thou airs; and everybody hates their determination to have it all—the security of academic tenure and the glitz of media stardom. So these are happy days for the rest of us. Plagiarism, lying, waffle-mongering: hardly a week goes by without some academic celebrity or other biting the dust, his reputation in __⑴__.

Stephen Ambrose was arguably America’s favorite historian, a man who wrote bestsellers faster than most people read them. An __⑵__of Hollywood blockbusters, he can also claim credit __⑶__ two of the best presidential biographies around, on Eisenhower and Nixon. But it now turns out that five of his books contain extensive ―borrowings‖ from other historians. (―I’m not writing a PhD‖, he has offered as an explanation—an unsurprising claim, as he would not get one for somebo dy else’s work.)

Mr. Ambrose must be grateful that attention has shifted to __⑷__ cutter and paster, Doris Kearns Goodwin. She was a fixture on American television, always ready with a telling anecdote on, say, Lyndon Johnson (whom she knew) or Abraham Lincoln (the subject of her next blockbuster).Her handling of the plagiarism charges against her has arguably been worse than the charges themselves. In the last 1980s she quietly mollified one of her chief victims, paying her some money. Now she explains her behavior by the fact __⑸__ she relied on handwritten notes—something other historians have managed to do without such dire consequences. Amazingly, Ms. Goodwin remains on Harvard’s board of overseers, despite the fact that she committed sins that might get an undergraduate expelled.

The hunt is now on for the next serial plagiarist. __⑹__, other charges are also being hurled at celebrity professors.