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More and more, the operations of our business, governments, and financial institutions are controlled by information that exists

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问题     More and more, the operations of our business, governments, and financial institutions are controlled by information that exists only inside computer memories. Anyone clever enough to modify this information for his own purposes can get substantial rewards. Even worse, a number of people who have done this and been caught at it have managed to get away without punishment.
    It’s easy for computer crimes to go undetected if no one checks up on what the computer is doing. But even if the crime is detected, the criminal may walk away not only unpunished but with a glowing recommendation from his former employers.
    Of course, we have no statistics on crimes that go undetected. But it’s disturbing to note how many of the crimes we do know about were detected by accident, not by systematic inspections or other security procedures. The computer criminals who have been caught may be the victims of uncommonly bad luck.
    For example, a certain keypunch (键盘打孔) operator complained of having to stay overtime to punch extra cards. Investigation revealed that the extra cards she was being asked to punch were for dishonest transactions. In another case, dissatisfied employees of the thief tipped off (向……透露) the company that was being robbed.
    Unlike other lawbreakers, who must leave the country, commit suicide, or go to jail, computer criminals sometimes escape punishment, demanding not only that they not be charged but that they be given good recommendations and perhaps other benefits. All too often, their demands have been met.
    Why? Because company executives are afraid of the bad publicity that would result if the public found out that their computer had been misused. They hesitate at the thought of a criminal boasting in open court of how he juggled (要弄) the most confidential records right under the noses of the company’s executives, accountants, and security staff. And so another computer criminal departs with just the recommendations he needs to continue his crimes elsewhere.
The fourth paragraph wants to support the idea that ______.
选项 A、computer crimes are seldom serious
B、computer criminals are seldom punished
C、computer criminals are usually unfortunate
D、computer crimes are usually found accidentally
答案D
解析 推理判断题。例子都是支持出现在其前后的观点的。第4段举了两个例子，分别为了说明上一段第2句和第3句的观点，将这两句的观点综合来看，就可知道作者想要说明计算机犯罪的发现极具偶然性，因此选项D为正确答案。本题最具干扰性的是选项C，虽然第3段末句提到计算机罪犯被抓是因为他们运气不好，但事实上，作者这样写是表示其幽默感，真正的目的是为了说明计算机犯罪很少被发现或被惩罚，因此选项C不是作者的真正想法。
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