单选题
Directions: In this section, you will hear short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. The passages and the questions will be spoken only ONCE. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
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【答案解析】[听力原文]6-8 We will live in a society where cash no longer exists. Instead, "cash" is electronic, as in bank card systems. Currency and coin are abandoned. Its benefits would be profound and fundamental. Theft of cash would become impossible. Bank robberies and cash-register robberies would simply cease to occur. Attacks on shopkeepers, taxi drivers, and cashiers would all end. Purse snatchings would become a thing of the past. Urban streets would become safer. Retail shops in once-dangerous areas could operate in safety. Security costs and insurance rates would fall. Property values would rise. Neighbonrhoods would improve. In the long run, a change from cash to recorded electronic money would be a fluid transition. Previously unpaid income-tax rates could be lowered or the national debt reduced. Cash has been the root of much social and economic evil. The emergence of electronic funds transfer technology makes it possible to change the nature of money and to divorce it from evil. Eighty percent of Americans regularly use credit cards. The development of a federal system to handle the country's 300 billion annual cash transactions in the United States electronically is within reach. A national electronic-money system would operate as a debit-card system. Each individual's "money" would be held in his money-system account. A transaction would effect an instant transfer of "money" from his account to that of another account holder. 6. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?