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新东方在线考研英语讲义 2013年全国硕士研究生招生考试 英语（二）试题 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) ①Given the advantages of electronic money, you might think that we would move quickly to the cashless society in which all payments are made electronically. ② 1 , a true cashless society is probably not around the corner. ③Indeed, predictions have been 2 for two decades but have not yet come to fruition. ④For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon “revolutionize the very 3 of money itself,” only to 4 itself several years later. ⑤Why has the movement to a cashless society been so 5 in coming? ① Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factors work 6 the disappearance of the paper system. ②First, it is very 7 to set up the computer, card reader, and telecommunications networks necessary to make electronic money the 8 form of payment. ③Second, paper checks have the advantage that they 9 receipts, something that many consumers are unwilling to 10 . ④Third, the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of “float”—it takes several days 11 a check is cashed and funds are 12 from the issuer ’s account, which means that the writer of the check can earn interest on the funds in the meantime. ⑤ 13 electronic payments are immediate, they eliminate the float for the consumer. ①Fourth, electronic means of payment may 14 security and privacy concerns. ②We often hear media reports that an unauthorized hacker has been able to access a computer database