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1、2012高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练（江苏专用）专题2 阅读理解 33（25分钟）AOne night, I was partying in central London, near Piccadilly Circus. Running short of money, I set off to find the nearest ATM to withdraw some cash. At Shaftesbury Avenue, I saw a huge queue for one ATM machine, but no one was using the neighboring “hole in
2、 the wall”. Assuming that the second machine was broken, I asked one queuing man if it was out of order. He replied, “Its working, but this one pays out twenties for tenners!”So the reason for the weirdly long queue is that these folks wanted to “double their money” by getting 20 notes for each 10 n
3、ote requested. Being an honest man, I didnt hang about; I simply used the idle machine and walked off.Last week, customers took similar advantage of Commonwealth Bank in Sydney, Australia. Following overnight maintenance, a computer virus caused CommBanks ATMs to fail to function properly and begin
4、paying out extra money, with unrestricted withdrawals. They allowed customers with little or no cash in their accounts to withdraw large sums that they didnt have. After about 5 hours, CommBank managed to restart these ATMs and stop the flood of cash.You stole your own cash!By withdrawing money they
5、 didnt have in their accounts, some of these greedy customers have gone heavily overdrawn. News reports indicate that some people were withdrawing as much as AU$2,500 (1,563) in a single dealing.Alas, both CommBank and the New South Wales police said that they will use ATM records and cameras to tra
6、ck down those who took advantage of the error. As Detective Superintendent Col Dyson of the New South Wales police department warned, “People should realise that they dont have the right to take that money and are committing a criminal offence if they keep it.”What about overpayments?What about when
7、 you key in a 20 withdrawal and you get two 20 notes, not two 10 notes?In English law (covering England and Wales), you have the right to keep money paid to you in error “under mistake of fact”, but only if you honestly believe that the money is yours. However, if you requested 20, got 40 and 40 was
8、 allowed to be lent to you, then the cash is yours to keep, as neither you nor the bank has suffered any loss. 1. The words “hole in the wall” refer to _.A. a real hole in the wallB. another ATMC. the mouth of a neighbourD. a common machine2. We learn from the passage that the writer _.A. saw a huge
9、 queue on his way to a party and joined themB. people queued up to withdraw money because the other ATMs were brokenC. had to use the unoccupied ATM to get some cash because he was in a hurryD. was critical of what he saw when withdrawing cash from an ATM3. According to the passage, _.A. last week,
10、an ATM in Sydney, Australia paid out AU$10 for every request for AU$20B. an ATM in Sydney, Australia was paying out more money than asked for because the bank owner had lifted the restrictionC. the machine paid out more money than requested even when a person had no money in his accountD. some peopl
11、e have been arrested on charge of getting extra money in the two happenings4. From the part subtitled “What about overpayments?”, we can know _.A. some English laws dont cover all Britain B. if the money you asked for was more than requested, youd always have to return the extra moneyC. if people ke
12、pt the extra money they got at a bank they might pretend they did not know itD. people committed a crime by getting the extra money even if they had that much in their accountBTOKYO Lonely astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) may soon be getting a robot friend from Japan. Japans space
13、 agency is considering putting a talking humanoid (有人的特点的) robot on the ISS to watch the work while astronauts are asleep, monitor their health and stress levels and communicate to Earth through the micro-blogging site Twitter. Japans space agency JAXA announced this week that it is looking at a pla
14、n to send a humanoid robot to the space station in 2013 that could communicate with the ground through Twitter primarily feeding photos, rather than original ideas and provide astronauts with “comfort and companionship”. Following up on US NASAs “Robonaut” R-2 program, which is set for launch on the
15、 Discovery shuttle next week, the Japanese robot would be part of a larger effort to create and refine robots that can be used by the elderly, JAXA said in a statement. Japan is one of the leading countries in robotics and has a rapidly aging society with one of the worlds longest life expectancies.
16、 Improving robot communication capabilities could help elderly people on Earth by providing a nonintrusive (无干扰的) means of monitoring the robot owners health and vital signs and sending information to emergency responders if there is an abnormality, JAXA said. “We are thinking in terms of a very human-like robot that would have facial expr
