Engineering MOSAIC. Мантатова С.С - 33 стр.

UNIT XXVII                                                                replaced the missing money from someone else's account. This man
Computer crime                                                            was caught only because he was a gambler. When the police broke up
Before you start                                                          an illegal gambling operation, his name was in the records.
1. Without looking at the text of the reading, decide whether the                Some employees use the computer's power to get revenge on
following statements are true (T) or false (F):                           employers they consider unfair. Recently, a large insurance company
      1. Most large businesses use paper records.                         fired, its computer-tape librarian for reasons that involved her
      2. Computers don't make mistakes.                                   personal rather than her professional life. She was given thirty days'
      3. It is hard to find witnesses to a computer crime.                notice. In those thirty days, she erased all the company's
      4. Computer criminals usually use guns.                             computerized records.
      5. There are probably more computer crimes than we know                    Most computer criminals have been minor employees. Now
      about.                                                              police wonder if this is "the tip of the iceberg." As one official says,
Reading                                                                   "I have a feeling that there is more crime out there than we are
2. Read the text and find answers to the questions below:                 catching. What we are seeing now is all so poorly done. I wonder
      1. What are the advantages of computers for companies?              what the real experts are doing — the ones who really know how a
      2. Why do banks want computers to handle their business?            computer works."
      3. What are the advantages of computers for criminals?
      4. Why does computer crime worry the police?                        Vocabulary
      5. Why do you think computer criminals are hard to find?            3. Choose the definition that fits each word or phrase as it is used in
                                                                          the text.
                            Computer Crime                                1. paperwork
      In many businesses, computers have largely replaced                 a. written records    b. money        с. newspapers
paperwork, because they are fast, flexible, and do not make mistakes.     2. account
As one banker said, "unlike humans, computers never have a bad            a. a record of money b. a story       с. a check
day." And they are honest. Many banks advertise that their                3. balance
transactions are "untouched by human hands" and therefore safe from       a. to keep everyone happy
human temptation. Obviously, computers have no reason to steal            b. to walk on a narrow place
money. But they also have no conscience, and the growing number of        c. the money in an account
computer crimes shows they can be used to steal.                          4. broke up
      Computer criminals don't use guns. And even if they are caught,     a. ended              b. fell         с. arrested
it hard to punish them because there are no witnesses and often no
evidence. A computer cannot remember who used it; it simply does          Speaking
what it is told. The head teller at a New York City bank used a           4. Persuade your partner using the information from the text that:
computer to steal more than one and a half million dollars in just four   1. Protecting the information is an important issue.
years. No one noticed this theft because he moved money from one          2. Computer crime becomes widespread nowadays.
account to another. Each time a customer he had robbed questioned
the balance in his account, the teller claimed a computer error, then