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2016下半年BEC商務(wù)英語(yǔ)考試中級(jí)閱讀資料
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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 Society
Imagine a society in which cash no longer exists, Instead, “ cash ” is 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 ) ____ . 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 ) ____ 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 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.
Example: H.
A. A national electronic-money system would operate 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 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.
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
拓展閱讀：BEC商務(wù)英語(yǔ)中級(jí)閱讀高頻句型總結(jié)
1. It作先行主語(yǔ)和先行賓語(yǔ)的一些句型
She had said what it was necessary to say.
2. 強(qiáng)調(diào)句型
It is not who rules us that is important, but how he rules us.
3. "All+抽象名詞"或"抽象名詞+itself"(very+形容詞)
He was all gentleness to her.
4. 利用詞匯重復(fù)表示強(qiáng)調(diào)
A crime is a crime a crime.
5. "something(much)of"和"nothing(little)of""something of"相當(dāng)于"to some extent"，表示程度。在疑問(wèn)句或條件從句中，則為"anything of "，可譯為"有點(diǎn)"，"略微等。""譯為毫無(wú)"，"全無(wú)"。"much of"譯為"大有"，"not much of"可譯為"算不上"，"稱不上"，"little of"可譯為"幾乎無(wú)"。 something like譯為"有點(diǎn)像，略似。"
They say that he had no university education, but he seems to be something of a scholar.
6. 同格名詞修飾是指of前后的兩個(gè)名詞都指同一個(gè)人或物，"of"以及它前面的名詞構(gòu)一個(gè)形容詞短語(yǔ)，以修飾"of"后面的那個(gè)名詞。如"her old sharper of a father"，可譯為："她那騙子般的父親"。
Those pigs of girls eat so much.
7. as…as…can(may)be
It is as plain as plain can be.
8. "It is in(with)…as in(with)"
It is in life as in a journey.
9. "as good as…"相等于，就像，幾乎如;實(shí)際上，其實(shí)，實(shí)在。
The merchant as good as promised the orphan boy, that he would adopt him.
10."many as well…as"和"might as well …as" "many as well…as"可譯為"與其……，不如……，更好"，"以這樣做……為宜"，"如同……，也可以……"等等。"might as well …as"表示不可能的事，可譯為"猶如……"，"可與……一樣荒唐"，"與其那樣不如這樣的好"等等。
One may as well not know a thing at all as know it imperfectly.
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