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Câu hỏi: Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Only a fool pays big money for the real thing when you can get stuff on the street for a fraction of the price. No one's going to know the difference and besides, it doesn't do anyone any harm. does it?
Sadly, it's not quite that simple. Counterfeit goods are a serious problem for the big brand name manufacturers. "Although none of the big companies would admit how much they are losing, it clearly runs into millions of pound every year," says John Anderson, executive secretary of the Anti-Counterfeiting Group, a body that represents around 200 major brands in the UK.
"You can buy a bag of fake Lacoste crocodiles in a market in some foreign country and just sew them on to a bunch of cheap T-shirts." Anderson says, "The products are often very poor quality, and you have no right to return those kinds of goods to the shop afterwards if they run to the wash or something"
Although few people are likely to feel sorry for brand name manufacturers, the problem goes deeper than that. "A fake T-shirt is not going to kill you, but you could die if the profits from that shirt go into making fake pharmaceuticals. We have evidence that there is money – laundering going on and a lot of the profits often go back into drug-dealing" says Anderson.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Group is convinced that most fake products are directly linked to organized crime and terrorism and there is strong anecdotal evidence to support this claim.
Trading of goods often works like this. The counterfeit traders operate from small portable crates, mostly selling fake perfumes and T-shirts. Three or four of them work a patch and the cash is held by a money man who watches over his team.
The money man hands out cash to his stooges, often women, who gather round traders pretending to feverishly buy the fake goods. The stooge's job is to whip up interest from the public
Each time the trader runs out of goods he gets more from a van parked out of sight nearby. At the first sign of trouble, the traders whip away their crates and disappear. Policing the counterfeit is not easy.
So while the cunning counterfeiters continue to escape the law, black-market shoppers will still be able to look like a million dollars on the cheap. But at what cost to the rest of us?
According to Mr. Anderson big companies _________
A. deny they are losing money because of counterfeit goods
B. are setting up anti-counterfeit organization
C. buy their labels in foreign countries
D. are losing a lot of money because of _________counterfeit goods
Only a fool pays big money for the real thing when you can get stuff on the street for a fraction of the price. No one's going to know the difference and besides, it doesn't do anyone any harm. does it?
Sadly, it's not quite that simple. Counterfeit goods are a serious problem for the big brand name manufacturers. "Although none of the big companies would admit how much they are losing, it clearly runs into millions of pound every year," says John Anderson, executive secretary of the Anti-Counterfeiting Group, a body that represents around 200 major brands in the UK.
"You can buy a bag of fake Lacoste crocodiles in a market in some foreign country and just sew them on to a bunch of cheap T-shirts." Anderson says, "The products are often very poor quality, and you have no right to return those kinds of goods to the shop afterwards if they run to the wash or something"
Although few people are likely to feel sorry for brand name manufacturers, the problem goes deeper than that. "A fake T-shirt is not going to kill you, but you could die if the profits from that shirt go into making fake pharmaceuticals. We have evidence that there is money – laundering going on and a lot of the profits often go back into drug-dealing" says Anderson.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Group is convinced that most fake products are directly linked to organized crime and terrorism and there is strong anecdotal evidence to support this claim.
Trading of goods often works like this. The counterfeit traders operate from small portable crates, mostly selling fake perfumes and T-shirts. Three or four of them work a patch and the cash is held by a money man who watches over his team.
The money man hands out cash to his stooges, often women, who gather round traders pretending to feverishly buy the fake goods. The stooge's job is to whip up interest from the public
Each time the trader runs out of goods he gets more from a van parked out of sight nearby. At the first sign of trouble, the traders whip away their crates and disappear. Policing the counterfeit is not easy.
So while the cunning counterfeiters continue to escape the law, black-market shoppers will still be able to look like a million dollars on the cheap. But at what cost to the rest of us?
According to Mr. Anderson big companies _________
A. deny they are losing money because of counterfeit goods
B. are setting up anti-counterfeit organization
C. buy their labels in foreign countries
D. are losing a lot of money because of _________counterfeit goods
Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu
Giải thích:
Theo ông Anderson các công ty lớn __________
A. phủ nhận họ đang mất tiền bởi hàng giả
B. đang thiết lập một tổ chức chống hàng giả
C. mua nhãn hiệu của họ ở nước ngoài
D. đang mất nhiều tiền bởi vì hàng giả
Thông tin: "Although none of the big companies would admit how much they are losing, it clearly runs into millions of pound every year," says John Anderson
Tạm dịch: John Anderson nói: "Mặc dù không có công ty lớn nào sẽ thừa nhận họ mất bao nhiêu, nhưng rõ ràng nó đã đạt đến hàng triệu bảng mỗi năm".
Giải thích:
Theo ông Anderson các công ty lớn __________
A. phủ nhận họ đang mất tiền bởi hàng giả
B. đang thiết lập một tổ chức chống hàng giả
C. mua nhãn hiệu của họ ở nước ngoài
D. đang mất nhiều tiền bởi vì hàng giả
Thông tin: "Although none of the big companies would admit how much they are losing, it clearly runs into millions of pound every year," says John Anderson
Tạm dịch: John Anderson nói: "Mặc dù không có công ty lớn nào sẽ thừa nhận họ mất bao nhiêu, nhưng rõ ràng nó đã đạt đến hàng triệu bảng mỗi năm".
Đáp án D.