教育部:严惩高考枪手

 　　Chinese authorities are warning of harsh punishments after several ghostwriters were caught attending the national college entrance exam, or Gaokao, sparking a huge wave of repercussions¹.

　　CRI's Sophie Williams reports.

　　The education department in Jiangxi Province confirmed that nine ghostwriters involved with this year's national college entrance exam are now in police custody².

　　In response to this, Xiong Biao, director of the Nanchang Examination Institute, says an investigation³ is underway.

　　教育部:严惩高考枪手

　　"We have a strict review process and methods. Every link in the process is overseen⁵ by someone. We will handle this case appropriately by our rules and law, no matter which link broke. We are investigating the matter right now."

　　According to local authorities, the first ghostwriter was detained on Sunday morning at Nanchang No. 10 Middle School.

　　An anonymous⁶ worker with the school says the man showed an authentic⁷ document when he passed a security checkpoint.

　　"He's using an authentic identity card. What can you do about that? You have to understand our situation, he's using a real document and the photo looks like him. It's such an important exam that we could not do anything to him easily. We can only doubt. What else can we do?"

　　In the afternoon, another person was caught taking the exam under someone else's name in Yingtan, another city in the province.

　　The second stand-in has been identified as a student from a university in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province.

　　That ghostwriter also revealed five other ghostwriters, and identified the chief organizer of a fraud gang.

　　Chu Zhaohui is a researcher at China's Institute of Education and science.

　　He explains how the security screening process at the exam sites failed to identify the ghostwriters.

　　Information input⁸ is the first step of the checking process. The staff responsible for this procedure may act in collusion with the fraud gang, which causes the problem right from the start. Then, in the information auditing⁹ process, unless staff carry out procedures with diligence, this existing problem is unlikely to be revealed."

　　The raids came on the heels of a report by Guangdong-based Southern Metropolis¹⁰ Daily.

　　The newspaper revealed that one of its reporters had infiltrated¹¹ a fraud gang that hires university students to take the two-day exam for "clients".

　　The undercover reporter pinpointed¹² the ghostwriters as several college students from Hubei province.

　　The Ministry¹³ of Education says it has asked the public security ministry to oversee⁴ the investigation and that cheating the Gaokao could amount to a punishable crime in serious cases.

　　For CRI, I'm Sophie Williams.

1 repercussions   

n.后果，反响( repercussion的名词复数 )；余波

参考例句：

• The collapse of the company will have repercussions for the whole industry. 这家公司的垮台将会给整个行业造成间接的负面影响。
• Human acts have repercussions far beyond the frontiers of the human world. 人类行为所产生的影响远远超出人类世界的范围。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

3 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

4 oversee   

vt.监督，管理

参考例句：

• Soldiers oversee the food handouts.士兵们看管着救济食品。
• Use a surveyor or architect to oversee and inspect the different stages of the work.请一位房产检视员或建筑师来监督并检查不同阶段的工作。

5 overseen   

v.监督，监视( oversee的过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was overseen stealing the letters. 他被人撞见在偷信件。 来自辞典例句
• It will be overseen by ThomasLi, director of IBM China Research Laboratory. 该实验室由IBM中国研究院院长李实恭(ThomasLi)引导。 来自互联网

6 anonymous   

adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的

参考例句：

• Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
• The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

7 authentic   

a.真的，真正的；可靠的，可信的，有根据的

参考例句：

• This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it. 这是篇可靠的新闻报道, 我们相信它。
• Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。

8 input   

n.输入(物)；投入；vt.把(数据等)输入计算机

参考例句：

• I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
• All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。

9 auditing   

n.审计，查账，决算

参考例句：

• Auditing standards are the rules governing how an audit is performed.收支检查标准是规则统治一个稽核如何被运行。
• The auditing services market is dominated by a few large accounting firms.审计服务市场被几家大型会计公司独占了。

10 metropolis   

n.首府；大城市

参考例句：

• Shanghai is a metropolis in China.上海是中国的大都市。
• He was dazzled by the gaiety and splendour of the metropolis.大都市的花花世界使他感到眼花缭乱。

11 infiltrated   

adj.[医]浸润的v.（使）渗透，（指思想）渗入人的心中( infiltrate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The headquarters had been infiltrated by enemy spies. 总部混入了敌方特务。
• Many Chinese idioms have infiltrated into the Japanese language. 许多中国成语浸透到日语中。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

12 pinpointed   

准确地找出或描述( pinpoint的过去式和过去分词 )； 为…准确定位

参考例句：

• His refusal to help simply pinpointed his cowardice. 他拒绝帮助正显示他的胆小。
• Computers pinpointed where the shells were coming from. 计算机确定了炮弹发射的位置。

13 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。