高中英语 Unit 1 Other countries, other cultures同步练习5 牛津译林版选修9.docVIP

Unit 1 Other countries, other cultures 一、完形填空（共20小题） Most shoplifters (商店扒手) agree that the January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the hard-working thief. 26 the shops so crowded and the staff so busy, it does not require any extraordinary talent to help you to take one or two little things and escape 27 . It is known, in the business, as “hoisting”. But the hoisting game is not 28 it used to be. Even at the height of the sales, shoplifters today never know 29 they are being watched by one of those evil little balls that hang from the ceilings of so many department stores above the most desirable goods. As if that was not trouble enough for them, they can now be filmed 30 and obliged to attend a showing of their performance in court. Selfridges was the first big London store to install closed-circuit videotape equipment to watch its sales floors. In October last year the store won its first court 31 for shoplifting using an evidence of a videotape clearly showing a couple 32 dresses. It was an important test case which 33 other stores to install similar equipment. When the balls, called sputniks, first make a(n) 34 in shops, it was widely believed that their only function was to 35 shoplifters. Their 36 ridiculous appearances, the curious holes and red lights going on and off, certainly make the theory believable. It did not take long, 37 , for serious shoplifters to start showing suitable 38 . Soon after the equipment was 39 at Selfridges, store detective Brian Chadwick was sitting in the control room watching a woman 40 putting bottles of perfume into her bag. “As she turned to go,” Chadwick 41 , “she suddenly looked up at the ‘sputnik’ and stopped. She could not 42 have seen that the camera was trained on her because it is completely hidden, but she 43 have had a feeling that I was looking at her.” “For a moment she paused, but then she 44 to counter and started putting everything 45 . When she had