文档介绍：400-618-2500 2013 年 MBA 英语真题 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B,C orD 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. 1a true cashless society is probably not around the corner. Indeed, predictions have been 2f or two decades but have not e to fruition. For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon "revolutionize the very 3 of money itself," only to4 itself several years later. Why has the movement toa cashless society been so5 ing? 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 puter, card reader, and works necessary to make electronic money the 8 form of payment Second, paper checks have the advantage that they 9 receipts, something thai many consumers are unwilling to 10. Third, the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of "float" - it takes several days 11a 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 arc 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 puter database and to alter information 15 there. The fact that this is not an 16 occurrenc e 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 puter science is developing to 19 security issues. A further concern is that the use ofe lectronic means of payment leaves an ele