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II. Find words or phrases in the text which mean the same as:

Paragraphs 1-6

    1. expert (especially at a young age)

    2. search through

    3. as much as you want

    4. be called up on a computer screen

    5. make small changes to/interfere with

Paragraphs 7-11

    1. rebellious/lawless

    2. caused a lot of trouble to

    3. aim in life

    4. removed completely

    5. interfering with (without permission)

III. Now complete these statements by choosing the answer which you think fits best.

  1. Banks may pay computer criminals

  1. to give back information they have stolen.

  2. to explain what their technique is.

  3. not to commit the same crime again.

  4. not to pass on information they have stolen.

  1. Companies don’t always report computer crime because they

  1. think it would create bad publicity.

  2. don’t expect the criminals to be caught.

  3. don’t want the police to investigate.

  4. think the criminals are members of their staff.

  1. The computer hackers’ motive seems to be

  1. to win a competition.

  2. to make a lot of money.

  3. to overcome a challenge.

  4. to appear in the newspapers.

  1. The mother of the 12-year-old hacker in Detroit

  1. had been worried about the time her son spent at his computer.

  2. thought her son’s interest in his computer was normal.

  3. had been involved in her son’s criminal activity.

  4. had tried to prevent her son’s criminal activity.

  1. What was the result of one software company’s attempt to prove that its security systems were effective?

  1. It was a complete success.

  2. It was a partial success.

  3. It was a failure.

  4. The results were inconclusive.

Vocabulary Tests

I. Crime. Put each of the following words and phrases into its correct place in the passage below.

bigamy civil classes community

countries crimes criminal law felony

fine forgery laws life imprisonment

misdemeanor offences penalty person

prison state term treason

Crime

Crime violates the laws of community, ….. or nation. It is punishable in accordance with these ….. . The definition of crime varies according to time and place, but the laws of most ….. consider as crimes such ….. as arson, ….. , burglary, ….. , murder, and ….. .

Not all offences against the law are ….. . The laws that set down the punishments for crimes form the ….. . This law defines as crimes those offences considered most harmful to the ….. . On the other hand, a ….. may wrong someone else in some other way that offends the ….. law.

The common law recognizes three ….. of crime: treason, ….. , and misdemeanor. Death or ….. is the usual ….. for treason. Laws in the United States, for example, define felony as a crime that is punishable by a ….. of one year or more in a state or federal ….. . A person who commits a ….. may be punished by a ….. or a jail term of less than one year.

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