江苏省扬州市安宜高级中学2015届高三D部英语限时训练卷4.docVIP

安宜高级中学2015届高三部英语限时训练I. 完形填空 Most shoplifters (商店扒手) agree that the January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the hard-working thief. 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 2 . It is known, in the business, as “hoisting”.　　But the hoisting game is not 3 it used to be. Even at the height of the sales, shoplifters today never know 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 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 for shoplifting using an evidence of a videotape clearly showing a couple 7 dresses. It was an important test case which 8 other stores to install similar equipment.　　When the balls, called sputniks, first make a(n) in shops, it was widely believed that their only function was to 10 shoplifters. Their 11 ridiculous appearances, the curious holes and red lights going on and off, certainly make the theory believable.　　It did not take long, , for serious shoplifters to start showing suitable 13 . Soon after the equipment was 14 at Selfridges, store detective Brian Chadwick was sitting in the control room watching a woman 15 putting bottles of perfume into her bag.　　“As she turned to go,” Chadwick , “she suddenly looked up at the ‘sputnik’ and stopped. She could not 17 have seen that the camera was trained on her because it is completely hidden, but she 18 have had a feeling that I was looking at her.”　　“For a moment she paused, but then she to counter and started putting everything 20 . When she had finished, s