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考研英语二真题及答案
2013全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语二试题
MBA, MPA, MPAcc 专业硕士统一考试
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)（本题答案在题号后）
　　Given the advantage of electronic money, you might think that we should move quickly to the cashless society in which all payments are made electronically. _1 However , a true cashless society is probably not around the corner. Indeed, predictions have been 2around_ 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 of money itself,” only to itself several years later. Why has the movement to a cashless society been so in coming?
　　Although e-money might be more convenient and may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factors work the disappearance of the paper system. First, it is very to set up the computer, card reader, and telecommunications networks necessary to make electronic money the form of payment.
　　Second, electronic means of payment 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 there.
　　Because this is not an occurrence, unscrupulous persons might be able to access bank accounts in electronic payments systems and funds by moving them from someone else’s accounts into their own. The of this type of fraud is no easy task, and a whole new field of computer science has developed to with security issues. A further concern is that the use of electronic means of payment leaves an electronic that contains a large amount of personal data on buying habits.
　　1. [A] Howe