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10 Choose the best answer to complete each sentence below.
1 He was __________ outside his house. His wallet and mobile were stolen.
A mugged B robbed C burgled D shoplifted
2 The __________ aeroplane was on the runway at the airport for three days.
A kidnapped B hijacked C smuggled D assaulted
3 The painting was sold for £3 million, and then they discovered it was a ______!
A counterfeit B duplicate C copy D forgery
4 When they got home, they found their house had been _______. It was empty.
A shoplifted B burgled C stolen D embezzled
5 She was __________ for months by someone who knew her secret and wanted
money to keep quiet.
A libeled B robbed C cheated D blackmailed
6 Credit card __________ on the Internet doesn’t happen very often.
A slander B larceny C fraud D perjury
11 Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word
that fits in the space in the same line.
Police have prevented a huge online bank (1) _____attempt ROB
from taking place over the Internet. Thieves planned to steal
$534million from a London branch of Japan’s Sumitomo
Mitsui bank. The (2) _____planned to send the money ROB
(3) _____to 10 different bank accounts around the world. ELECTRONIC
They used special (4) _____software that could record the HACK
sequence of keystrokes that computer users made on their
keyboards. This made it easy for the gang to find bank account
numbers, passwords, and other (5) _____information to find CONFIDENT
out which customers had the most money. One member of the
gang (6) _____worked at Sumitomo and installed the keystroke- SUPPOSE
reading software onto the bank’s computers.
A public relations officer said the bank’s IT (7) _____staff told SECURE
British police last October that they suspected they were under
attack. Detectives from Britain’s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit
then started (8) _____. They arrested a 32-year-old Israeli INVESTIGATE
man yesterday in (9) _____with the planned robbery. Police CONNECT
are questioning him now in Tel Aviv and expect to make more
arrests. They have warned all banks and businesses to take
extra care as cyber (10) _____are becoming more and more CRIME
skilled.
12 For questions 1-10, read the text below and look carefully at each line.
Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be
there. Iа a line is correct, put a tick (n). If a line has a word which should not
be there, write the word.