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Cybercrime
‘Love bug’ virus, hack attacks and data theft, people nowadays are quite familiar with those words, as they are often mentioned by newspapers or televisions. Those are all examples of cybercrime and cybercrime is defined as the use of any computer network for crime by British police. In addition, it is one of the fastest-growing criminal activities around the world and has drawn much attention from the public and the government, as its disastrous results can not be ignored. I will discuss some of the causes and effects of cybercrime and then give out some suggestions which are helpful to individuals as well as companies.
One of the causes of cybercrime is for making 1 which is the most common aim of those Hi-tech 2 . There are many ways for them to make money 3 the internet such as stealing money directly from 4 . They break into the computer systems of banks or companies, and 5 money to their own accounts. Also they 6 the banks by demanding huge amount of money, 7 they would publish how they managed to break into their computer 8 on the internet, and then anyone can 9 their websites, a group of professional 10 did that to five British banks several months ago. 11 like hacking into the computer system of some 12 trading companies and change the destination address of some 13 such as jewellery, and then the criminal gets the jewellery 14 someone else has to pay for it. That is one of the reasons 15 cybercrime has been growing so fast, 16 criminals can easily get huge amount of profit by just 17 the keyboard.
The effects of those profit-making 18 activities are disastrous for both individuals and businesses. For 19 , nothing is more miserable than finding out 20 all their money in their bank account has 21 gone. As a result, they can not pay for their 22 , car and even the education fee of their children! Businesses also suffer 23 from this, it is reported that 44% of British businesses had 24 a ‘malicious security breach’ within the year 2001, and 25 , it costs them about ￡30,000 to get back in the 26 (back to normal). Take those banks that were being held to 27 by a group of hackers as an example, it 28 costs them financially but also has a detrimental 29 on their reputation, people do not trust them 30 , as nobody wants to save money in a bank where 31 with a PC can access their bank accounts.
The second cause of cybercrime is 32 stealing information. Some information is as valuable as 33 for those criminals such as credit card number and social 34 number. They can obtain those credit card numbers by 35 bogus companies and get credit card details from those 36 buyers. One of the worst cybercrime is identity 37 , stealing information about someone’s date of birth, social security 38 and address. Then the criminal could actually be someone 39 , and do whatever he wants to do, usually illegal such as selling 40 or weapons, and do not have to be responsible for his: 41 ! Business spies also steal information like new products 42 , future expansion plan, sales figure, and then sell it to its 43 . They also can steal secret documents of government in 44 countries.
The effects of stealing information are 45 . Those businesses who have invested much money and time in 46 a new product, they lose the advantages in the market of that new product 47 the valuable time and human resources if the 48 information is stolen. For individuals, suddenly they have so many 49 to pay for as others using their credit cards to buy things. The 50 , people may have to be the scapegoat and responsible for someone else’s faults if their identity was stolen. Sometimes, they may be sued in the court or send to prison by mistake. It takes them much time to prove that they are innocent and they are also mentally stressed. Stealing secret information from government may cause incogitable serious effect and may even end up with a war between two countries.
1.
A.trouble
B.mess
C.money
D.profit
正确答案：D
2.
A.personnels
B.criminals
C.suspects
D.technicians
正确答案：B
3.
A.by
B.with
C.through
D.between
正确答案：C
4.
A.banks
B.companies
C.targeted clients
D.money bags
正确答案：A
5.
A.transfer
B.transmit
C.covey
D.pass to
正确答案：A
6.
A.ransack
B.rankle
C.rampage
D.ransom
正确答案：D
7.
A.nevertheless
B.therefore
C.otherwise
D.counterclockwise
正确答案：C
8.
A.software
B.systems
C.hardware
D.programmes
正确答案：B
9.
A.attack
B.rankle
C.fracture
D.destroy
正确答案：A
10.
A.professionals
B.attackers
C.hackers
D.hitchers
正确答案：C
11.
A.Other ways
B.other actions
C.other attacks
D.another way
正确答案：A
