【大學英語六級閱讀專項練習35篇】附答案 【大學英語六級閱讀專項練習35篇】附答案

　　閱讀理解專項練習 3 5 篇 1.2007 年 12 月英語六級閱讀專項訓練(1) Giving Credit Where

　　Credit Is Not Due The big identity-theft bust last week was just a taste of what's to

　　come. Here's how to protect your good name HERE'S THE SCARY THING about the identity-

　　theft ring that the feds cracked last week: there was nothing any of its estimated 40,000

　　victims could have done to prevent it from happening. This was an inside job, according

　　to court documents. A lowly help-desk worker at Teledata Communications, a software firm

　　that helps banks access credit reports online, allegedly stole passwords for those

　　reports and sold them to a group of 20 thieves at $60 a pop. That allowed the gang to

　　cherry-pick consumers with good credit and apply for all kinds of accounts in their

　　names. Cost to the victims: $3 million and rising. Even scarier is that this, the largest

　　identity-theft bust to date, is just a drop in the bit bucket. More than 700,000

　　Americans have their credit hijacked every year. It's one of crime's biggest growth

　　markets. A name, address and Social Security number--which can often be found on the Web

　　--is all anybody needs to apply for a bogus line of credit. Credit companies make $1.3

　　trillion annually and lose less than 2% of that revenue to fraud, so there's little

　　financial incentive for them to make the application process more secure. As it stands

　　now,