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【题目】阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

In many businesses, computers have largely replaced paperwork, because they are fast, and do not make mistakes. And they are honest. Many banks say that their business is “untouched by human hands” and therefore safe. But they have no thought that the growing number of computer crimes (犯罪) show they can be used to steal.

Computer criminals (罪犯) don’t use guns. And even if they are caught, it is hard to punish them because there is often no proof. A computer cannot remember who used it. It simply does what it is told. The head teller(出纳主管) at a New York City bank used a computer to steal more than one and a half billion dollars in just four years. No one noticed this because he moved the money from one account (账户) to another. Each time a customer whose money he had stolen questioned the balance in his account, the teller said it was a computer mistake, then replaced the missing money from someone else’s account. This man was caught at last.

Some workers use the computer’s power to punish their bosses they consider unfair. Recently, a large company fired its computer record assistant for reasons that were connected with her personal life rather than her job. She was given thirty days notice. In those thirty days, she stole all the company’s computerized records.

Most computer criminals have been common workers. Now police wonder if this is “the tip of 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 really know a computer works.”

【1】This passage is mainly about ________.

A. computer crimes

B. stealing through computers

C. computer mistakes

D. punishment through computers

【2】Business in many banks is declared to be safe because ________.

A. paperwork is no longer needed

B. computers are honest

C. people are not allowed to work there

D. it is done through computers

【3】The head teller covered up his crimes ________.

A. because no one had questioned him

B. because he had stolen money carefully

C. by moving money through computers

D. by lying to the police

【4】The assistant stole all the computerized records ________.

A. by chance

B. after she was dismissed

C. because she had been done wrong

D. because the company decided to dismiss her

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】D

【3】C

【4】D

【解析】

本文主要介绍计算机犯罪。

【1】A。主旨大意题。通读全文可知，文章是围绕A项“计算机犯罪”展开的，而B、C、D三项文章中虽有谈及，但不是全文讨论的主题，故A项为正确答案。

【2】D。细节理解题。根据文章第二段中Many banks say that their business is ‘untouched by human hands’ and therefore safe.可知，银行的交易被认为是安全的是因为操作是通过电脑进行的。

【3】C。细节理解题。根据文章第二段No one noticed this because he moved the money from one account to another.可知，银行出纳主管通过把钱在各个账户之间转来转去来掩盖自己的犯罪。

【4】D。细节理解题。根据文章第三段中“She was given thirty days notice. In those thirty days, she robbed out all ...”可知，这个助理因为被公司开除所以怀恨在心，偷走了所有的电脑记录，be given thirty days notice＝have to leave job in thirty days。