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(2017·苏北四市高三一模)

Is Cash Becoming Outdated?

When he rolls into a gas station to fill his tank, Barkhad Dahir doesn't get out of his car. He pushes a few buttons on his cellphone and within seconds he has paid for the fuel. With the same quick pushes on his phone, he pays for virtually everything he needs: groceries at the supermarket, a few oranges from a market stall, or a cup of sweet milky tea from a café. “Everyone here has his own bank with easy access，” boasts Mr.Dahir. “Even lying in bed, you can be paying your bills.”

Electronic payments offer consumers convenience, provide revenue for banks, credit card companies and payment processors, and offer merchants improved cash flow and convenience. “I don't even carry m oney any more，” says Adan Abokor, a democracy activist. “I haven't seen cash for a long time. Almost every merchant, even hawker (小贩) on the street, accepts payment by cellphone. There's no waiting for it and no counting of cash.”

The system is impressively simple and secure. Purchases are made by dialing a three­digit number, entering a four­digit PIN, and then entering the retailer's payment number and the amount of money. Both customers and merchants receive text messages to confirm the payment.

Clearing up cash payments has several advantages as well. The printing and handling of money is expensive. Cash payments can be anonymous and hard to track criminal activities to be conducted in secret. Many governments favor reducing cash dealings in order to better monitor and understand the activities of their citizens. The Swedish government has been discussing the removing of cash since 2010.

However, some people doubt what members of a cashless society do when the power goes off. Do they choose to barter (物物交换) and rob? Do they sit at home and wait? What happens to people who rely on their cellphones to process money dealings when cell service and the Internet are interrupted? A world affected by terrorism and increasingly violent weather may not yet be ready to aba ndon currency. “Ironically, the day after the largest bank in Norway, DNB, proposed ending all cash dealings, I went to my local grocery store and when I tried to pay by phone, I was told that

I needed to go to the ATM to get cash because the system was broken，” said an interviewee.

Other people fear that electronic payments may create security and fraud risks and enable dealings to be tracked and reported.

Privacy, security and convenience are all important factors in the adoption of electronic payment technology. New technologies which balance and address these factors may enable people to remove cash.

Is Cash Becoming Outdated？

Passage outline Supporting details

An example of electronic payments Barkhad Dahir claims that he can almost purchase (1)________ he needs by using his mobile phone.

Reasons for the (2)________ for electronic

payments ·They can be more (3)________ without waiting in line or counting the cash, whose characteristics include (4)________ and simplicity.

·They reduce the cost of print ing money and allow the government to (5)________ cash activities.

Possible

(6)________ of electronic payments ·Some people are (7)________ whether electronic payments can still be effective during times when the power goes off.

·There are (8)________ tha t electronic payments may create security and fraud risks.

·It is possible that electronic dealings can be (9)________ and reported for illegal use.

Conclusion Cash is not (10)________ to be completely replaced unless privacy, security and convenience are balanced and settled.

语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。电子支付日益盛行，那么现金会被电子支付取代吗？本文针对这一话题展开了论述。

1．everything/whatever 直接信息题。根据第一段第三句话可知，他可以用手机买到他需要的所有东西。故空格处可填everything/whatever。

2．preference 信息概括题。根据表格右栏的内容可知，这里讲的是人们偏爱电子支付的原因，所以填preference“偏爱”。

3．time­saving/convenient信息转换题。根据第二段第一句话中的“... offer