2012年商务英语中级阅读理解练习11

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The Cash-free Society
. U. O7 G3 H* _3 R1 B9 [  ~Imagine a society in which cash no longer exists, Instead, “ cash ” is electronic, as in bank-card Systems. Currency and coin are abandoned.
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1 x6 R% d! H  s____ 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 ) ____ . Security costs and insurance rates would fall. Property values would rise. Neighbourhoods would improve.
  
  G, w/ Q( m$ n' d4 B; i4 BDrug 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 ) ____ These prosecutions, in turn, would inhibit further crimes.
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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 much social and economic evil. ____ (12)____  Eighty percent of Americans regularly use credit cards. The development of a federal system to handle the country’s 300 billion annual cash transactions in the United States electronically is within reach.
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Example: H.
  
A.      A national  electronic-money system would operate as a debit-card system.
; K# B1 M2 t3 e1 gB.  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.
" N$ l: ^" ^1 D' o) VD.   The use of cash has diminished substantially since World War II.
E.  Attacks on shopkeepers, taxi drivers, and cashiers would 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.
* x8 ^2 a7 Q: j0 G1 I7 o3 ]H.       The immediate benefits would be profound and fundamental.
I.         Electronic “money” would leave incriminating trails of data, resulting in more arrests and convictions.
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# L# a6 }5 P$ e! T4 l1 P1 p答案：Questions 8 – 12:       E, B, I, C, F