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1、商务英语考试中级阅读理解题及参考答案：Readthefollowingtext.商务英语考试中级阅读理解题及参考答案：Readthefollowingtext.Read the following text.Choose the best sentence from the list on page 52 to fill each of the gaps.For each gap 8 12 mark one letter A I on your Answer Sheet.Do not mark any letter twice.The Cash-free SocietyImagine a so
2、ciety in which cash no longer exists, Instead, “ cash ” is electronic, as in bank-card Systems. Currency and coin are abandoned._ exle _ . Theft of cash would bee impossible. Bank robberies and cash-register robberies would simply cease to occur _ ( 8 ) _ . Purse snatchings would bee a thing of the
3、past. Urban streets would bee safer _ ( 9 ) _ . Security costs and insurance rates would fall. Property values would rise. Neighbourhoods would improve.Drug traffickers and their clients, burglars and receives of stolen property, arsonists for hire, and bribe-takers would no longer have the advantag
4、e of using untraceable currency. _ ( 10 ) _ These prosecutions, in turn, would inhibit further crimes.In a society devoid of physical money, a change from cash to recorded electronic money would be acpanied by a flow of previously unpaid ine-tax revenues running in the tens of billions of dollars. _
5、 (11) _Cash has been the root of much social and economic evil. _ (12)_ Eighty percent of Americans regularly use credit cards. The development of a federal system to handle the countrys 300 billion annual cash transactions in the United States electronically is within reach.Exle: H.A. A national el
6、ectronic-money system would operate as a debit-card system.B. Retail shops in once dangerous areas could operate in safety.C. As a result, ine tax rates could be lowered or the national debt reduced.D. The use of cash has diminished substantially since World War II.F. The emergence of electronic fun
7、ds-transfer technology makes it possible to change the nature of money and to divorce it from evil.G. Almost every present-day cash transaction can be duplicated electronically.H. The immediate benefits would be profound and fundamental.I. Electronic “money” would leave incriminating trails of data, resulting in more arrests and convictions.答案：Questions 8 12: E, B, I, C, F第 页 共 页
