The development of e-commerce may well bring the world into a brand new era of "electronic currency". At the moment, (52) areas in Europe, the United States and Asia have already started studying the possibility of an electronic currency. Electronic currency is not only about currency. It (53) to an entire finance system on the Net. It includes a virtual numeric currency, an electronic system of withdrawals, transfers and loans, and (54) cards of all shapes and sizes. The (55) of an electronic currency system implies the emergence of "virtual banks" and "virtual enterprises". Actually, the first virtual bank appeared in the US in 1995. (56) it is a small and insignificant bank, it represents the trend of the future. In time to come, we may even have to (57) the familiar paper currency.
As the Net pushes the economy (58) rapidly, the economy is also bringing the Net market forward,
A. rougher
B. mere
C. serious
D. greater
Many professions are associated with a particular stereotype. The classic (1) of a writer, for example, is (2) a slightly crazy-looking person, (3) in an attic, writing away furiously for days (4) end. Naturally, he has his favorite pen and note-paper, or a beat-up typewriter, (5) which he could not produce a readable word.
Nowadays, we know that such images bear little (6) to reality. But are they completely (7) In the case of at least one writer, it would seem not. Dame Muriel Spark, who (8) 80 in February, in many ways resembles this stereotypical "writer". She is certainly not (9) , and she doesn’t work in an attic. But she is rather particular (10) the tools of her trade.
She insists on writing with a (11) type of pen in a certain type of notebook, which she buys from a certain stationer in Edinburgh called James Thin. In fact, so (12) is she that, if someone
A. locks
B. lock
C. locked
D. locking
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