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Students at the University of Cambridge have started a petition against the university’s tradition of publicly displaying their

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问题    Students at the University of Cambridge have started a petition against the university’s tradition of publicly displaying their end-of-year exam results. The petition calls on the university to seek students’ permission before it publicly displays their results.
   It is gaining momentum. More than 700 students had signed it on Wednesday morning, three days after it was launched. Under the current system, students receive their class marks privately online, before they are published on noticeboards outside Senate House and in university publications.
   The petition, set up by the student campaign group Our Grade, Our Choice, calls on the university to give students a clear way to opt out of appearing on public class lists.
   Students who signed the petition are concerned that the public distribution of results ignores students’ welfare and right to privacy. They say that the current practice "promotes a culture of grade shaming", that those with mental health issues may not want to be included, and that it could "trigger an episode" in vulnerable individuals.
   The campaigners also say the system may harm "those who do not wish to be identified by the name the university has on record, particularly within the trans community".
   Nadia Ayed, 21, a psychology student at Cambridge who signed the petition, says the practice fosters a competitive attitude towards education. "Many individuals will find it distressing, and it can induce negative psychological effects, such as lower self-esteem, shame and anxiety, which hugely affect wellbe-ing." Ayed says the system also encourages competitiveness, "with people not wanting to share their notes, and an ’in it to win it’ attitude among students".
   Louis Reynolds, 23, who is studying for an MPhil in sociology at Cambridge, says: "I had my grades published in public last year and found the whole experience both bizarre and outdated. The examiners are not allowed to know our names, so why should the general public? People take photos of the grades and post them all across social media and tag people in them—this is the typical example of grade shaming, irrelevant of the actual marks that somebody received and their thoughts on them."
   Helen Hoogewerf-McComb, president of Cambridge University’s student union (CUSU), says: "While the university does have a right to publish examination results without gaining students’ prior consent, it also has a duty to provide an appropriate mechanism for students to opt out, particularly where publication may cause distress or harm."
   In the past, Cambridge students’ results would be publicly displayed before they received them privately, but this was changed in 2010.
   The University of Oxford stopped making exam results public in October 2009 because around 40% of students had previously opted out of having their names published on public exam results lists through the Data Protection Act, according to a university spokeswoman.
   A spokesman for the University of Cambridge says: "This is an age-old tradition. If any student feels uncomfortable and wants their name to not be published they can ask their senior tutor for exemption."
   [A] thinks that publication of students’ exam results has bad psychological effects.
   [B] points out university’s right and duty about public display of exam results.
   [C] holds that publicly displaying student’s exam results leads to grade shaming.
   [D] justifies students’ action to protect their name from public display.
   [E] suggests that it is university’s duty to publish students’ exam results.
   [F] sets up the petition requiring an option for students to avoid display of their results.
   [G] believes that it is necessary to encourage competitiveness in university.
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答案D
解析 Data Protection Act出现在文中倒数第二段。该段说，牛津大学约有40％的学生事先通过Data Protection Act(数据保护法)选择退出，让自己的名字免于出现在公开的考试成绩单里。可见，Data Protection Act是一个可以帮助学生保护自身信息隐私权的法案，即依据这个法案，学生选择不公开自己考试成绩的行为具有了正当性。D正表达了这个意思，其中protect their nallle from public display是对原文opted out of having their names published on public exam results的同义转述，故确定D为本题答案。
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