Question

Computers can help many workers. They can also help thieves.
There was one thief who worked in a bank of the United States. He paid for everything he needed by check (支票). Then he told the computer not to take any money from his account for the checks he wrote. The bank’s computer did what he said. And it did not take any money from his bank account. One day the computer broke down. People had to do the computer’s work. They soon found out what was happening.
Another thief, who worked for a bank saw people filling in deposit forms (存款單). Many of these people did not know their account numbers, so they wrote only their names on the forms. They left empty places for their account numbers. The thief wrote his own account number in this place. When the computer read these forms it looked only at the account numbers. It did not look at the customers’ names. It paid the money on these deposit forms into the thief’s account .                           
Then there was the bank worker who told the bank computer to take ten cents off every customer’s account each month and put it into his own account. For a long time the bank’s customers did not notice that they were losing ten cents every month. But then someone did notice and told the bank. That was the end of that little game!
小題1:What was the first thief?

A．A computer engineer.

B．A customer.

C．A bank worker.

D．We don’t know.

小題2:How did the first thief steal money from the bank?

A．He broke the computer down and stole money from it.

B．He paid for everything by check instead of cash.

C．He took money away from the bank.

D．He told the computer not to take away money from his account.

小題3:How many kinds of crimes in a bank are mentioned?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．Five.

小題4:What can we infer from the passage?

A．None of the thieves has been caught by the police up to now.

B．A lot of money is missing from the bank of the United States each year.

C．The computers in the bank will be changed to prevent money from being stolen.

D．There will be no crimes in the bank any more since so many crimes have been found out.

Answer 1

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:B

試題分析：這篇短文中主要三個事例介紹了一種高級形式的盜賊，銀行職員利用現代技術盜取銀行及客戶資金的犯罪形式。
小題1:根據短文第二段描述，可知這個賊是個銀行職員，故選C。
小題2:根據第二段 he told the computer not to take any money from his account for the checks he wrote. 描述，可知選D。
小題3:根據短文二三四段描述，可知本文主要介紹了三種在銀行的犯罪形式，故選B。
小題4:短文中描述的三種犯罪形式都很隱蔽，被發現的可能性都比較低，因此可以推斷的是，在美國的銀行每年都有大量的金錢流失。故選B。
點評：本文淺顯易懂，各個小題都能在文中找到適當依據。只要認真閱讀短文，注意前后聯系，就能順利完成閱讀。文章所設試題主要考察細節查找，做題關鍵是找出原文的根據，認真核查小題和原文的異同。