易考2013管理类联考英语试题(含答案).pdfVIP

2013 年管理类专业学位全国联考 英语（二）试卷 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 ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) 导 Given the advantages of electronic money, you might think that we would move quickly to the cashless society in which all payments are made electronically. 1___ a true cashless society is probably not 辅 around the corner. Indeed, predictions have been 2__ for two decades but have not yet come to fruition. For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon A revolutionize the very 3__ of money itself, only to 4__ itself several years later. Why has the movement B to a cashless society been so 5__ in coming? Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, M several factors work 6__ the disappearance of the paper system. First, it is very 7__ to set up the computer, card reader, and telecornmunications networks necessary to make electronic money the 8__ form of payment Second, paper checks have the advantage that they 9__ receipts, something 考 thai many consumers are unwilling to 10__ . Third, the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of float - it takes several days 11__ a check is cashed and f