Question

For most people, shopping is still a matter of wandering down the street or loading a cart in a shopping mall. Soon, that will change. Electronic commerce (trade) is growing fast and will soon bring people more choices. There will, however, be a cost: protecting the consumer from being cheated will be harder. Many governments therefore want to apply street regulations to the electronic world. But politicians would be wiser to see cyberspace as a basis for a new era of corporate self-regulation.
Consumers in rich countries have grown used to the idea that the government takes responsibility for everything from the stability of the banks to the safety of the drugs or their rights to refund when goods are faulty. But governments cannot enforce national laws on businesses whose only presence is on the screen. Even in a country where a clear right to compensation exists, the on-line customer in Tokyo, say, can hardly go to New York to get a refund (退款) for a clothes purchase.
One answer is for government to cooperate more: to recognize each other’s rules. But that requires years of work and volumes of detailed rules. And plenty of countries have rules too fanciful for sober countries to accept. There is, however, another choice. Let the electronic businesses do the regulation themselves. They do, after all, have a self-interest in doing so.
In electronic commerce, a reputation for honest dealing will be a valuable competitive asset. Governments, too, may compete to be trusted. For instance, customers ordering medicines on- line may prefer to buy from the United States because they trust the rigorous screening of the Food and Drug Administration; or they may decide that the FDA’s rules are too strict, and buy from Switzerland instead.
Customers will still need to use their judgment, but precisely because the technology is new, electronic shoppers are likely for a while to be a lot more cautious than customers of the normal sort. And the new technology will also make it easier for them to complain when a company lets them down. In this way, at least, the advent(出現(xiàn)) of cyberspace may argue for fewer consumer protection laws, not more.
小題1:In case an electronic shopper bought faulty goods from a foreign country, what could he do?

A．Refuse to pay for the purchase.	B．Go to the seller and ask for a refund.
C．Appeal to consumer protection law.	D．Complain about it on the Internet.

小題2:In the author’s view, businesses would place a high emphasis on honest dealing because in the electronic world _______.

A．international cooperation would be much more frequent

B．consumers could easily seek government protection

C．a(chǎn) good reputation is a great advantage in competition

D．it would be easy for consumers to complain

小題3:We can infer from the passage that in licensing new drugs the FDA in the United States is______.

A．very quick

B．very cautious

C．very slow

D．rather careless

小題4:According to the author, what will be the best policy for electronic commerce?

A．Self-regulation by the business.	B．Strict Consumer protection laws.
C．Close international cooperation.	D．Government protection.

Answer 1

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:A

試題分析: 在未來社會，購物不再意味著逛街、推著購物車逛商場。電子商務(wù)的出現(xiàn)使得人們在網(wǎng)上購物更為方便。但是，網(wǎng)上購物也存在一些弊端，比如，如果在網(wǎng)上買到假冒商品時候，政府還缺少必要的措施制度去保障消費者利益。
小題1:D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。文章第一段提到在網(wǎng)上購物使保護(hù)消費者權(quán)益更難，然后在文章末段作者提出And the new technology will also make it easier for them to complain when a company lets them down.，由此判斷如果在網(wǎng)上買到假冒偽劣商品，人們可以提出投訴，選D。
小題2:C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段舉的例子可以判斷公司的誠信是公司在激烈的競爭中獲得更多利益好處的保障，故答案選C。
小題3:B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。 從文章倒數(shù)第四段because they trust the rigorous screening of the Food and Drug Administration; or they may decide that the FDA’s rules are too strict, and buy from Switzerland instead.可知美國在批準(zhǔn)新藥品方面是非常謹(jǐn)慎、嚴(yán)格的，故選B。
小題4:A推理判斷題。文章第三段提出讓電子公司自己對自己進(jìn)行監(jiān)管，然后在文章第三段提出這樣做的好處，由此判斷作者認(rèn)為最好的政策就是網(wǎng)絡(luò)公司的自我制約，選A。