Teachers: Who was the dumbest cheater you've ever seen?
Richard Muller, Prof Physics, UC Berkeley, author "Physics for Future Presidents"
Updated Sun
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I had a student who overslept and missed a multiple-choice exam. I was sympathetic, and I asked him if he had seen the exam or the solution I had passed out at the end of the exam. He said no. I said that made it easy for me; I’d just let him take the same exam.
I did give him the same exam, but it was the early days of the word processor, so it was easy for me to shuffle the order of the answers for the more difficult questions. Although he got most of the easy (unshuffled) questions right, he got none of the shuffled ones correct. Then I noticed that his answers were correct for the original ordering of the answers!
He insisted that he hadn’t cheated. He even had his father call me. I told the father about my trick, and he was appalled. He then confronted his son, and his son confessed. Apparently in his home culture (he was a foreign student) there was no shame in lying to your teacher, but there was in lying to your father, and his father held a higher ethical standard.
Vocabularies：
word processor：文字处理软件；
shuffle：
slide (playing-cards) over one another to change their order 洗（纸牌）: Who is going to shuffle? 谁洗牌？
walk without lifting the feet completely clear of the ground 拖着脚步走: Walk properly don't shuffle. 好好走路，脚别蹭地。
appall：vt. 使胆寒、使惊骇；
confront：face (sth.) defiantly 对抗或面对（某事物）；
ethical：
adj. 道德的、伦理的、凭处方出售的；
n. 处方药
（*有点忙，以后恐怕很少时间学习了*）
