The following is an excerpt from Malcolm Gladwell's essay, "Something Borrowed," included in his
book What the Dog Saw:
Words belong to the person who wrote them. There are few simpler ethical _16_ than this one, particularly as society directs more and more energy and resources toward the creation of __17__ property. In the past thirty years, copyright laws have been __18__. Courts have become more willing to grant intellectual-property protections. Fighting _19_ has become an obsession with Hollywood and the recording industry, and in the worlds of academia and publishing, plagiarism has gone from being bad literary manners to something much closer to a __20__. When, two years ago, Doris Kearns Goodwin was found to have lifted pages from several other historians, she was asked to resign from the board of the Pulitzer Prize Committee. And why not? If she had robbed a bank, she would have been fired the next day.
【題組】17.
(A) mental
(B) intellectual
(C) factual
(D) actual
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