English Unlimited HAK/HUM 4/5, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM (mit Handelskorrespondenz)

170 Preparing for final exams 0 From 2007 to 2011 many luxury goods firms grew by . Q1 Prospects for companies producing upmarket goods seem to . Q2 Sales of shark fin and luxury have plummeted. Q3 It would be wrong to say that all luxury goods firms declining sales in China. Q4 It is not enough for luxury firms to trade in the . Q5 On account of the strong , Chinese visitors do a lot of shopping in Europe. Q6 In order to attract even more Chinese customers, European luxury-goods shops need to employ staff skills. Q7 The interior of the country is still a worthwhile market niche as inhabitants tend not to and incomes are still rising. Q8 Together with their shops, the of luxury goods stores need to be revamped. 10% and more Read the text below. First decide whether the statements (1–8) are true (T) or false (F) and put a cross (  ) in the correct box. Then identify the sentence in the text which supports your decision. Write the first four words of this sentence in the space provided. There may be more than one correct answer; write down only one. The first one (0) has been done for you. TASK 4 – HAK The Hackers’ New Frontiers Everybody has heard of identity theft and credit card abuse on the internet. Wikileaks has been in the headlines for several years and, more recently, two young Americans made headlines when they first hacked then leaked sensitive official data.  If we are to believe computer experts, hackers will soon be turning to new, even more dangerous territories.  Imagine driving at high speed when your car suddenly becomes unmanoeuverable: the steering wheel does not respond and the brakes don’t function, or the car unexpectedly comes to a halt causing an accident in which dozens of people are injured. Now imagine that all this had absolutely nothing to do with you, but that the car had been taken over by hackers. As was recently demonstrated at a computer security conference in Las Vegas, vehicle hacks can completely disable a driver’s ability to control a fast-moving car. At present, typically 10 to 14 little computers are built into modern cars; once one of them is compromised, safety goes out the window. The future looks even more dangerous. As cars are becoming more computerised, say with internet access and other electronic features, they will become even easier targets.  If the thought of increasingly hackable cars is alarming, security experts add to everybody’s paranoia by warning that we should be even more concerned about our homes. The burglars of the future will no longer use files and crowbars but WI-FI scanners and laptops. WI-FI-enabled front door locks that can be opened and closed with a smartphone may be at the cutting edge of wireless home security, but they are not unhackable; nothing is, according to experts. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv