首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
For years, Europeans have been using "smart cards" to pay their way through the day. They use them in shops and restaurants, plu
For years, Europeans have been using "smart cards" to pay their way through the day. They use them in shops and restaurants, plu
admin
2010-02-20
35
问题
For years, Europeans have been using "smart cards" to pay their way through the day. They use them in shops and restaurants, plug them into pubic into telephones as and parking meters. In France smart cards cover anything from a bistro bill to a swimming - pool entry fee. In American, smart cards are not nearly so common -- only about 43,000 are now circulating in the US and Canada -- but Forrester Research of Cam- bridge, Mass. , predicts that number will balloon to 4.7 million by the year 2002.
What is a smart card, exactly, and how does it work?
Also called a chip card because of the tiny mixcroprocessor embedded in it, a smart card looks like the other plastic in your wallet. To make things more confusing, some smart cards pull double duty as regular ATM bank cards. The difference is that when you swipe your ATM (or debit) card at the grocery -store checkout, you’re draining cash from your bank account. Smart cards, on the other hand, are worthless un- less they are "loaded with cash value", pulled directly from your bank account or traded for currency. The chip keeps track of the amounts stored and spent. The advantage, in theory, is convenience: consumers bother less with pocket change and are able to use plastic even at traditionally cash -only vendors. The electronic transaction doesn’t require a signature, a PIN number or bank approval. Downside: lose the card, lose the money.
Most people are probably more familiar with stored -value cards equipped only with a magnetic strip, such as fare card issued to riders on the Washington metro or the New York City subway. The newer chip - enhanced versions, armed with more memory and processing power, have popped up in various places in the past years or so, from college campuses to military bases to sports stadiums. Other experiments are under way. A health -care claims processor in Indianapolis, Ind. , hopes smart cards will streamline medical - bill payments. In Ohio, food - stamp recipients receive a smart card rather paper vouchers.
Smart cards issued for general commerce are rarer, unless you happen to live in a place designated for a test run, such as Manhattan’s Upper West Side. But big bank and plastic - purveying kings Visa and MasterCard are hot for the idea, promising more extensive trials and more elaborate, multipurpose cards capable of rendering everything else you carry -- plastic, paper or coin-- superfluous.
Today’s smart cards may not be revolutionizing the way we buy the morning paper yet, but they could turn out to be right tool spur Internet commerce and banking. For the time being, though, smart cards are just another way to buy stuff. And it could be a while before even that catches on. Remember: some people still don’t trust ATMs either.
The following are advantages of the chip card except that _____.
选项
A、consumers bother less with pocket change.
B、the transaction doesn’t require a signature, a PIN number.
C、if you lose the card, you lose the money.
D、it is more convenient.
答案
C
解析
C很显然是它的缺点。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/I0vO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
A、Aftertheirgeneralsurveycoursesarecompleted.B、Aftertheyenrollinauniversity.C、Aftertheyreceiveabachelorofarts
Professionallanguagetranslatorslaborinabusinessthatisunorganizedandhaphazard.Mostarefreelancers,contractingwith
A、Aforeignlanguageisveryusefulingettingajobwithdecentpay.B、Weuseaforeignlanguagetocommunicatefreelywithan
A、Theanti-Chinesemovementnationwide.B、ThelawpassedbyCongress.C、Therisinghostilityofwhitemen.D、Thedecreasingjob
Coca-Colahasbeenoperatinginternationallyformostofits100yearhistory.Todaythecompanyhasoperationsin160countries
Racket,dinclamor,noise,whateveryouwanttocallit,unwantedsoundisAmerica’smostwidespreadnuisance.Butnoiseismore
A、Anti-animal-abusedemonstrations.B、Anti-nuclearcampaigns.C、SurveyingtheAtlanticOceanfloor.D、Removingindustrialwaste.
Itwastheworsttragedyinmaritimehistory,sixtimesmoredeadlythantheTitanic.WhentheGermancruiseshipWilhelmGu
OnlyafewhundredpeopleliveinYvoire,butthesmallvillageonthesouthernshoresofLakeGenevahasalottooffer.Iteve
Asapopularsayinggoes:"【C1】______"Goodhealthenablesoneto【C2】______andachievewhathe【C3】______.Withgoodhealthweca
随机试题
借款人在偿还银行贷款时,银行按偿还金额逐笔计收利息的计息方法是()。
Ourclubisopentoeveryone________age,sexortheeducationalbackground.
种群的均匀分布型的形成原因,主要是由于种群内个体间的__________。
A.囊肿位于根尖周围B.囊壁的结缔纤维包膜内含有子囊C.囊肿可分为球上颌囊肿、鼻唇囊肿等D.囊肿位于颈部正中线上E.囊肿常无上皮衬里牙源性角化囊肿()
居民消费价格指数和生产资料价格指数主要反映()。
请问你心目中的好老师是什么样的?
请简述足球技术中的正面铲球的动作要领。
2009年度全国“农民工总量”为22978万人,比上年增加436万人。其中“外出农民工”14533万人,比上年增加492万人。在外出农民工中,“住户中外出农民工”11567万人,比上年增加385万人:“举家外出农民工”2966万人,比上年增加107万人。
Normallyastudentmustattendanumberofcoursesinordertograduate,andeachcoursewhichheattendsgiveshimagradewhic
ResearchersreportthatobesityrelatestoDNA.Somechildrengetobese【C1】______theylackparticularchunksofDNA,whichkicks
最新回复
(
0
)