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3. Use of English

For questk>ns 31-40, read the text bełow and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. There is an example at the beginning (0).

0	for
31	can
32	itself
33	anyone /anybody
^34	other
r	where
36	as
^37	over
38	what
39	been
40	less

Many pcople now carry plastic cards (O) .... various purposes. These cards

(31).....be used for buying things or taking money from a machinę. They are also

used for making telephone calls. Normally, you can use the number by (32).....

without having the card with you. This means that (33).....who knows your

number can use it to make phone calls or buy things by phone. At banks, hotels

and airports and (34).....crowded places (35).....people use these cards,

a new type of criminal has appcared. Known (36)..... 'shoulder surfers', they

look (37) .... people's shoulders and memorise the numbers they see.

One businessman left his telephone card in a public phone box. Realising (38) .....

he had done, he hurried back. The card was still there but he knew the number might have (39)..... taken, so he called the phone company. His card was

cancelled immediately, (40)..... than five minutes after he had left it.

But in the few minutes, four hundred illicit phone calls had been madę using his number.