文档介绍：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 of such a society 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 e-money might be more convenient and 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 earn interest on the funds in the meantime. ___13___ electronic payments are immediate，they eliminate the float for the consumer. Fourth，electronic means of payment ___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.
Because this is not an ___16___ occurrence，unscrupulous persons might be able to access bank accounts in electronic payments systems and ___17___ funds by moving them from someone else’s accounts into their own. The ___18___ of this ty