the way business is done in today’s market. However, customers are at ___41__ of purchasing false products or poor quality items. Many ___42___ the distance between customers and send the wrong goods and lure clients to buy goods recommended as great ___43___, but when customers receive these items, they find themselves falling into traps.
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transactions are needed to complete the purchase, hackers may acquire __47__ information about the user to make other purchase.
There are still honest businesses that sell their products and services but gain a very small profit by __48__ the prices of their products because they have a lot of competition in the Internet. That is __49__ one of the hazards of e-commerce that should be considered is the bankruptcy of businesses since profits is low if they need __50__ their goods as cheaply as possible.
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PART IV Reading Comprehension (45 minutes, 30 points, 1 point each) Directions: In this section, there are five short passages. Read each passage carefully, and then do the questions that
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follow. Choose the best answer from the four choices marked by A, B, C, or D and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet
Passage One
One of the areas in which people tend to have ideas that don’t make sense is that of rights. For example, many Americans believe that our rights, described in the declaration of Independence and the constitution, drive from the god or from the very nature of being human, including the individual right to bear arms. Yet people
in
most
law-governed
democracies other than the United
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2012年12月研究生英语学位课统考真题
