江苏省常州市2014高考英语阅读理解联合训练（三）及答案.docVIP

江苏省常州市2014高考英语阅读理解联合训练（3）及答案 阅读理解A One night, I was partying in central London, near Piccadilly Circus. Running short of money, I set off to find the nearest ATM to withdraw some cash. At Shaftesbury Avenue, I saw a huge queue for one ATM machine, but no one was using the neighboring “hole in the wall”. Assuming that the second machine was broken, I asked one queuing man if it was out of order. He replied, “It’s working, but this one pays out twenties for tenners!” So the reason for the weirdly long queue is that these folks wanted to “double their money” by getting ￡20 notes for each ￡10 note requested. Being an honest man, I didn’t hang about; I simply used the idle machine and walked off. Last week, customers took similar advantage of Commonwealth Bank in Sydney, Australia. Following overnight maintenance, a computer virus caused CommBank’s ATMs to fail to function properly and begin paying out extra money, with unrestricted withdrawals. They allowed customers with little or no cash in their accounts to withdraw large sums that they didn’t have. After about 5? hours, CommBank managed to restart these ATMs and stop the flood of cash. You stole your own cash! By withdrawing money they didn’t have in their accounts, some of these greedy customers have gone heavily overdrawn. News reports indicate that some people were withdrawing as much as AU$2,500 (￡1,563) in a single dealing. Alas, both CommBank and the New South Wales police said that they will use ATM records and cameras to track down those who took advantage of the error. As Detective Superintendent Col Dyson of the New South Wales police department warned, “People should realise that they don’t have the right to take that money and are committing a criminal offence if they keep it.” What about overpayments? What about when you key in a ￡20 withdrawal and you get two ￡20 notes, not two ￡10 notes? In English law (covering England and Wales), you have the right to keep money paid to you in error “under mistake o