核心问题
[Some thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs Nanette O'Neill gave an arithmetic test to our class. When the papers were marked she discovered that twelve boys had made exactly the same mistakes throughout the test.]
There is nothing really new about cheating in exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs O'Neill didn't even say a word about it. (全国高考, 96–27–30)
[原译][……]没有任何新的迹象证明他们在考试中作弊……(《最新十年高考试题分类解析》,辽宁人民出版社,2003年版,p.154)
我发现许多关于英语高考的著作都是这么翻译的。但是，我怀疑它的正确性。
词典解答
该文译者没有注意到 There is nothing ... 用的是一般现在时。在讲故事的过程中突然插入了一个一般现在时，这说明这句话不是在讲故事，而是作者在发表议论。译者由于缺少这一参照点，而误认为这句话是在讲故事，结果译出了上面完全背离原意的句子。
[试译]考试作弊是司空见惯的事儿/屡见不鲜的事儿(或:考试作弊并不是什么新鲜事儿)。