2015考研英语(二)完形填空题及答案2
Directions:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank
and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
Given the advantages of electronic money, you might think that we would
move quickly to the cashless society in which all payments are made
electronically. __1__a true cashless society is probably not around the corner.
Indeed, predictions have been ___2__ for two decades but have not yet come to
fruition. For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of
payment would soon "revolutionize the very __3__ of money itself," only to
__4___ itself several years later. Why has the movement to a cashless society
been so___5___ in coming?
Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments
system based on paper, several factors work __6___ the disappearance of the
paper system. First, it is very ___7__ to set up the computer, card reader, and
telecommunications networks necessary to make electronic money the___8__ form of
payment Second, paper checks have the advantage that they ___9___ receipts,
something that many consumers are unwilling to __10__ . Third, the use of paper
checks gives consumers several days of "float" - it takes several days __11___ a
check is cashed and funds are __12___ from the issuer's account, which means
that the writer of the check can cam interest on the funds in the meantime.
___13__ electronic payments are immediate, they eliminate the float for the
consumer.
Fourth, electronic means of payment may __14___ security and privacy
concerns. We often hear media reports that an unauthorized hacker has been able
to access a computer database and to alter information ___15___ there. The fact
that this is not an __16___ occurrence means that dishonest persons might be
able to access bank accounts in electronic payments systems and __17___ from
someone else's accounts. The __18__ of this type of fraud is no easy task, and a
new field of computer science is developing to ___19___ security issues. A
further concern is that the use of electronic means of payment leaves an
electronic __20___ that contains a large amount of personal data. There are
concerns that government, employers, and marketers might be able to access these
data, thereby violating our privacy.
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7. imaginative expensive sensitive productive
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11. before after since when
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13. Unless Until Because Though
14. hide express raise ease
15. analyzed shared stored displayed
16. unsafe unnatural uncommon unclear
17. steal choose benefit return
18. consideration prevention manipulation justification
19. cope with fight against adapt to call for
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答案：
1-5: ADBDC
6-10: BBDBA
11-15: ADCCC
16-20: CABAD
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