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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?
The article claims that buy counterfeit goods _________
A. does little harm
B. only harms big companies
C. particularly harms women
D. potentially harms everyone
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?
The article claims that buy counterfeit goods _________
A. does little harm
B. only harms big companies
C. particularly harms women
D. potentially harms everyone
Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu
Giải thích: Bài viết khẳng định rằng mua hàng giả __________
A. gần như không gây hại
B. chỉ gây hại cho các công ty lớn
C. đặc biệt gây hại cho phụ nữ
D. có nguy cơ gây hại cho mọi người
Thông tin: Although few people are likely to feel sorry for brand name manufacturers, the problem goes deeper than that. "A fake T-shirts 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.
Tạm dịch: Mặc dù ít người có khả năng cảm thấy tiếc cho các nhà sản xuất có thương hiệu, nhưng vấn đề còn sâu xa hơn thế. "Một chiếc áo phông giả sẽ không giết chết bạn, nhưng bạn có thể chết nếu lợi nhuận từ chiếc áo đó biến thành dược phẩm giả. Chúng tôi có bằng chứng cho thấy có tiền - hoạt động rửa tiền đang diễn ra và rất nhiều lợi nhuận thường quay trở lại với việc buôn bán ma túy," Anderson nói.
Giải thích: Bài viết khẳng định rằng mua hàng giả __________
A. gần như không gây hại
B. chỉ gây hại cho các công ty lớn
C. đặc biệt gây hại cho phụ nữ
D. có nguy cơ gây hại cho mọi người
Thông tin: Although few people are likely to feel sorry for brand name manufacturers, the problem goes deeper than that. "A fake T-shirts 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.
Tạm dịch: Mặc dù ít người có khả năng cảm thấy tiếc cho các nhà sản xuất có thương hiệu, nhưng vấn đề còn sâu xa hơn thế. "Một chiếc áo phông giả sẽ không giết chết bạn, nhưng bạn có thể chết nếu lợi nhuận từ chiếc áo đó biến thành dược phẩm giả. Chúng tôi có bằng chứng cho thấy có tiền - hoạt động rửa tiền đang diễn ra và rất nhiều lợi nhuận thường quay trở lại với việc buôn bán ma túy," Anderson nói.
Đáp án D.