2017专四改革新题型：阅读模拟练习（6）

2017专四改革新题型：阅读模拟练习（6）

　　专四改革新题型阅读部分最大的变化是增加了“简答题”(Short Answer Questions)共20分，10道选择，5道简答题。两相比较，后者显得更重要，得分更容易。答案简短(不超10词)，大多能从文中找到原词。新东方在线英语专四频道整理了2017专四改革新题型：阅读模拟练习供考生们参考。

　　In many businesses, computers have largely replaced paperwork, because they are fast, flexible, and do not make mistakes. As one banker said, “Unlike humans, computers never have a bad day." And they are honest. Many banks advertise that their transactions are “untouched by human hands" and therefore safe from human temptation. Obviously, computers have no reason to steal money. But they also have no conscience, and the growing number of computer crimes shows they can be used to steal.

　　Computer criminals don't use guns. And even if they are caught, it is hard to punish them because there are no witness and often no evidence. A computer cannot remember who used it: it simply does what it is told. The head teller at a New York bank used a computer to steal more than one and a half billion dollars in just four years. No one noticed this theft (盗窃) because he moved the money from one account to another. Each time a customer he had robbed questioned the balance in his account, the teller claimed a computer error, then replaced the missing money from someone else's account. This man was caught only because he was a gambler. When the police broke up an illegal gambling operation, his name was in the records.

　　Some employees use the computer's power to get revenge (报复) on their employers they consider unfair. Recently, a large insurance company fired its computer-tape librarian for reasons that involved her personal rather than her professional life. She was given thirty days notice. In those thirty days, she erased all the firm's computerized records.

　　Most computer criminals have been minor employees. Now police wonder if this is “the tip of the iceberg." As one official says, “I have the feeling that there is more crime out there than we are catching. What we are seeing now is all so poorly done. I wonder what the real experts are doing — the ones who know how a computer works."

　　1. What is the passage mainly about?

　　2. Transactions in many banks are claimed to be safe because they

　　3. The bank teller covered up his crime by

　　4. What must the librarian do thirty days after she received the notice?

2017专四改革新题型：阅读模拟练习（6）

　　5. According to the last paragraph, what kind of criminals are the police unable to catch?

　　1. Computer crimes. (或 Computer criminals.)

　　2. are untouched by human hands (或 are handled by computers)

　　3. claiming a computer error (或 moving money from one account to another)

　　4. Leave her job. (或 Quit her work.)

　　5. Computer experts.

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