lO. She was hounded out of public life by the persistent aaacks of the popular newspapers.
The crime of identity theft is on the rise. Recent surveys show there are currently 10 million
victims each year, greatly exceeding our earlier estimates. Using a variety of methods, criminals
steal Social Security numbers, driver's license numbe~, credit card numbers, and other pieces of
an individual's information such as date of birth. They use this information to buy as many things
as they can in their victim's name in as short a time as possible. Identity theft is a serious crime.
People whose identities have been stolen can spend months or even years cleaning up the mess
the thieves have made of their credit record.
1．打电话的是一家银行的调查员，他用严厉的口吻质问柯林斯——一位在大学里工作的物理学
I 家——为什么前一年在弗吉尼亚买了一辆价值27，000。美元的汽车，却逾期付款。 1 1．在接下来的几个月里，他和妻子得知有人假胃他们的名义又买了四辆车和28 件其他物品，
总价值为113，咖美元。
1 3．这就是成为身份盗窃——一种虽非暴力，但让人害怕且增长迅速的犯罪——的受害人的后 I 果。
1 4．专家认为，主要问题在于社会保险号码现在成了确认身份的普遍方式——而它原来只用于领
I 取退休养老金和纳税，
1 5．尽管你不必偿还这笔债款，但是你必须清除不良的信用记录。这就意味着你首先必须得到一
份警方的报告和一份假冒合同的复印件，然后凭着这些材料把关于你的诈骗行为的不实记录从你的信用报告中删除。
1 6．依法建立了一个专门的政府办公室，用来帮助受害者恢复他们失去的信誉以及允许警方在全
I 国范围内追踪调查来提高其办案效率。
1 7．维护消费者权益的人士认为，这一做法会有所帮助，但是解决不了根本问题。 1 8．目前已经有几项法律提案试图在商业活动中限制使用社会保险号码以保护个人稳私，防止欺诈。
1 9．“信用页眉”上列有顾客的姓名、地址、电话号码、母亲的姓氏、生日和社会保险号码。
20．“除非你在任何情况下对个人信息守口如瓶，否则总有被人盗用的可能，”有专家这样说。
“但是也有办法将危险降到最低程度。” Essay Summa~l~
I.D 2. B 3. C 4. B 5. A 6. D 7. A 8. C 9. B 10. C
II.D 12. C 13. A 14. A 15. D 16. C 17. A 18. B 19. A 20. C Structured Writing
The work ethic is diluted in the States now.
Today, a lot of carefully designed financial cushions -- unemployment insurance,
welfare
payments and so on -- have made it less disastrous to be out of a job for a while. Today's younger
workers are sometimes laid off and kicked around by recessions, but they do not take it seriously.The blow of unemployment seldom carries the life-and-death implication it once had. What is more, today's younger workers do not carry terrible memories of poverty and suffering. They have never suffered from scarcity of food and crowded apartxnents.
As a result, work does not address the essential need for security in its original sense. Some
people even can be a bit \ftrst time
in the history of the world, masses of people in industrially advanced countries no longer have t0 focus their minds upon work as the central concern of their existence. Some younger workers now ask questions about the point of working hard. (Words: 169)
Reading Skills
1. Murder, rape, stealing, kidnapping, lying, breach of contract, disrespect and unkindness to
parents, speaking evil of rulers and swearing falsely. 2. To swear an oath.
3. They offer sacrifices to gods. 4. A one-time thief and his parents. 5. A capital crime.
Comprehension of the Text
I. All acts prohibited by religion are crimes, and treated as such in traditional society. 2. An unwritten code of conduct.
3. It means that a liar is prone to commit crimes, such as stealing. 4. Because they believe that it will lead to miseries and misfortune. 5. They perform rituals.
6. God will make the thief suffer physically or internally. 7. The loss of reputation by the thief and his parents. 8. They must care for and honor their parents. 9. They are both political and religious leaders. 10. Religion can help eliminate crime.
l. deviate 2. cherished 3. prolonged 4. constrained 5. summoned 6. appeased 7. breach 8. Expelled 9. strive 10. battering 11. convened 12. ascertain
Exercises on CD and web course only: 13. incurring 14. conform 15. reproached 1. against 2. from 3. to 4. of 5. to 6. in 7. to 8. as 9. from 10. to 11. to 12. from
Exercises on CD and web course only: 13. In 14. to 15. of Reading Skills 1.25 years.
2. About one in a thousand. 3. A bag with handles.
4, He pinched it between his index and middle fingers. 5. Seven years.
1. They think it's an honorable profession. 2. Mothers with babies, the elderly and the lame. 3. One who carries her bag on the left side. 4. The partner can serve as a screen.
5. The back pockets of trousers and zipped-up inside pockets of leather jackets. 6. Because people there are usually upset and cautious. 7. He wanted to set himself a challenge.
8. The wallet slipped out of his hand, then the woman screamed and the store detectives security guard caught him.
9. The victim-awareness courses helped him to do so. 10. To help people avoid being victims of pickpockets. 新视野大学英语第五册读写教程课后答案 unit 7 Unit seven
Comprehension of the Text
1. It is a macro virus spread through an e-mail attachment.
2. It spreads through a Microsoft Word 97 or Word 2000 e-mail attachment that, when opened,
activates a macro through the Microsoft Outlook program and e-mails itself to the first fifty
names in the address book of the infected computer.
3. Its most striking characteristic is its ability to propagate itself across a vast number of systems in the commercial, government, and military realms in a very short period of time.