Mostshoplifters(商店扒手)agreethatheJanuarysalesofferwonder...

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Most shoplifters (商店扒手) agree that he January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the hard-working thief.  41 the shops so crowded and the staff so busy, it does not require any extraordinary talent to help you to take one or two little things and escape  42   . It is known, in the business, as “hoisting”.

But now the hoisting game is not  43 it used to be. Even at the height of the sales, shoplifters today never know  44  they are being watched by one of those evil little balls that hang from the ceilings of so many department stores above the most desirable goods.

  As if that was not trouble enough for them, they can now be filmed  45  and obliged to attend a showing of their performance in court.

 Selfridges was the first big London store to install closed-circuit videotape equipment to watch its sales floors. In October last year, the store won its first court  46 for shoplifting using an evidence of a videotape clearly showing a couple 47 dresses. It was an important test case which  48  other stores to install similar equipment.

  When the balls, called sputniks, first make a(n)  49  in shops, it was widely believed that their only function was to  50  shoplifters. Their  51  ridiculous appearances, the curious holes and red lights going on and off, certainly make the theory believable.

It did not take long,  52  , for serious shoplifters to start showing suitable  53  . Soon after the equipment was  54  at Selfridges, store detective Brian Chadwick was sitting in the control room watching a woman  55 putting bottles of perfume into her bag.

"As she turned to go," Chadwick  56  , "she suddenly looked up at the ‘sputnik’ and stopped. She could not  57  have seen that the camera was trained on her because it is completely hidden, but she  58  have had a feeling that I was looking at her."

 "For a moment she paused, but then she  59 to counter and started putting everything  60 . When she had finished, she opened her bag towards the camera to show it was empty and hurried out of the store."

41. A. As                       B. With                     C. For                  D. Since

42. A. noticed             B. noticing                 C. unnoticed        D. unnoticing

43. A. how                  B. that                 C. which            D. what

44. A. if                       B. that                     C. how                  D. why

45. A. at rest                  B. at attention             C. at work              D. at shock

46. A. case                     B. theft                    C. discussion           D. conversation

47. A. trying               B. wearing              C. stealing        D. packaging

48. A. stopped                  B. kept                     C. encouraged           D. called

49. A. difference               B. influence                C. appearance           D. function

50. A. attack                   B. calm                 C. excite               D. frighten

51. A. somehow              B. somewhat             C. anyhow               D. somewhere

52. A. however                  B. thus                 C. therefore            D. anyway

53. A. respect                  B. interest                 C. fright          D. courage

54. A. in operation             B. in case                C. in trouble         D. in advance

55. A. publicly                 B. bravely                  C. quickly              D. secretly

56. A. replied                  B. repeated            C. recalled           D. requested

57. A. possibly                 B. politely                 C. pleasantly         D. patiently

58. A. could                B. would                C. should            D. must

59. A. came                     B. left                     C. returned             D. rushed

60. A. off                  B. in                       C. up              D. back

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