Part III Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank before the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.For most people, shopping is still a matter of wandering down the high street or loading a cart in a shopping mall. Soon, that will change. Electronic commerce is growing fast and will soon bring people more choice. There will, however, be a cost: (1)the consumer from fraud will be harder. Many governments therefore want to extend high street (2)to the electronic world. But politicians would be wiser to see cyberspace as a basis for a new era of corporate self-regulation.Consumers in rich countries have grown used to the idea that the (3)takes responsibility for everything from the stability of the banks to the safety of the drugs, or their rights to refund (退款) when goods are faulty. But governments cannot(4)national laws on businesses whose only presence in their country is on the screen. Other countries have regulators, but the rules of consumer protection (5), as does enforcement. Even where a clear right to compensation exists, the online catalogue customer in Tokyo, say, can hardly go to New York to extract a refund for a dud purchase.One answer is for governments to cooperate more: to (6)each other's rules. But that requires years of work and volumes of detailed rules. And plenty of countries have rules too fanciful for (7)states to accept. There is, however, an alternative. Let the electronic businesses do the "regulation" themselves. They do, after all, have a self-interest in doing so.In electronic commerce, a (8)for honest dealing will be a valuable competitive asset. Governments, too, may compete to be trusted. For instance, customers ordering medicines online may prefer to buy from the United States because they trust the rigorous screening of the Food and Drug Administration; or they may decide that the FDA's rules are too strict, and buy from Switzerland instead.Consumers will need to use their judgment. But precisely because the technology is new, (9)shoppers are likely for a while to be a lot more cautious than consumers of the normal sort—and the new technology will also make it easier for them to complain noisily when a company lets them down. In this way, at least, the advent of(10) may argue for fewer consumer protection laws, not more.A) regulations B) differ C) tuitions D) electronic E) sober F) seniors G) cyberspace H) enforce I) protecting J) complaint K) government L) brew M) recognize N) reputation O) financial