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2013年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试管理类专业硕士学位联考 英语（二）真题试卷 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 society is probably not around the corner. Indeed, predictions of such 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 movements 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 advantages 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 issuere’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 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 access bank accounts in electronic payments systems and __17__ from someone else’s accounts. The ___18__of this type of