商务英语考试中级阅读理解题及参考答案：Readthefollowingtet..docx

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1、 商务英语考试中级阅读理解题及参考答案：Readthefollowingtext. 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 Society Imagine a society in which cash no longer exists, Instead, “ cash ” is

2、 electronic, as in bank-card Systems. Currency and coin are abandoned. _ example _ . Theft of cash would become impossible. Bank robberies and cash-register robberies would simply cease to occur _ ( 8 ) _ . Purse snatchings would become a thing of the past. Urban streets would become safer _ ( 9 ) _

3、 . 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 advantage of using untraceable currency. _ ( 10 ) _

4、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 accompanied by a flow of previously unpaid income-tax revenues running in the tens of billions of dollars. _ (11) _ Cash has been the root of muc

5、h 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. Example: H. A. A national electronic-money system would ope

6、rate as a debit-card system. B. Retail shops in once dangerous areas could operate in safety. C. As a result, income tax rates could be lowered or the national debt reduced. D. The use of cash has diminished substantially since World War II. E. Attacks on shopkeepers, taxi drivers, and cashiers woul

7、d all end. F. The emergence of electronic funds-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 【商务英语考试中级阅读理解题及参考答案：Readthefollowingtext.】