2013年考研英语(二)完形填空真题及答案
历年考研英语完形填空题真题及答案(2000-2014)Section I Use of English
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.
1. However Moreover Therefore Otherwise
2. off back over around
3. power concept history role
4. reward resist resume reverse
5. silent sudden slow steady
6. for against with on
7. imaginative expensive sensitive productive
8. similar original temporary dominant
9. collect provide copy print
10. give up take over bring back pass down
11. before after since when
12. kept borrowed released withdrawn
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
20. chunk chip path trail
答案：
1-5: ADBDC
6-10: BBDBA
11-15: ADCCC
16-20: CABAD
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