Police in Hangzhou yesterday claimed to have arrested 11 people suspected of running an illegal gambling network.  

“The network acted as a bridge between Chinese gamblers and overseas casinos(賭場),” said Wu Jun, spokesman for the public security bureau of Xiaoshan district, Hangzhou. “About 80 percent of the gamblers are local businessmen, and chances are that the money they bet came from their companies’ accounts,” Wu said. The underground gambling network was set up by a wealthy local businessman surnamed Li last year, he said. The gamblers could view real-time images of a casino in Philippines via the website and place bets through the agent’s account.  

Li registered with the website after coughing up a 5-million-yuan deposit last March. Every time a gambler won, 17% of the winning amount would go to the website as a fee. Li received 10% of the winnings as commission, while the person who introduced the gambler to the website got a 7-percent commission.  

Li ran the gambling network under a pyramid scheme. Gamblers were encouraged to bring in more people to join the website’s network in order to earn more commission.  

“Li had provided a convenient but illegal platform for wealthy businessmen, who wanted to gamble,” Wu said. “Otherwise they had to travel all the way to Macao to do so.” Under the current law, gambling is prohibited all over China, except Macao. “Setting up the gambling network is the stupidest thing I’ve ever done,” Li said. “The whole thing started as a joke, but the joke went too far,” he added. “I was not short of money, I was just being greedy.”  

According to Wu, the police uncovered the illegal network while investigating a local businessman, who fled without paying banks “hundreds of millions of yuan” worth of debt. The cops later discovered the man lost most of the bank’s money in Li’s virtual casino.  

  

61. What’s the main idea of the passage?  

A. More people are addicted to illegal gambling.  

B. Police uncovered an illegal gambling network.  

C. Money can be got through the illegal network.  

D. Mr. Li made gambling spread with the network.  

62. According to the passage, Li ________.  

A. set up the network with a deposit of 5,000,000 yuan  

B. didn’t express regret about what he had done  

C. started the network just because of lack of money  

D. could get a commission of 17% of the winning amount  

63. The underlined word “commission” in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ________.  

A. price for some goods  

B. salary one can get from a job  

C. money given to someone freely  

D. fees for one’s service in return  

64. Li ran the network under a pyramid scheme because _________.  

A. this scheme made the management much easier  

B. it could encourage gamblers to bring in more people  

C. this kind of management is popular nowadays  

D. running in this way can not be uncovered easily  

65. It can be inferred from the passage that __________.  

A. gambling is prohibited all over China except Macao  

B. Li had provided an illegal platform for some businessman  

C. being greedy is an evil sometimes leading to crimes.  

D. some gamblers probably use their companies’ money for gambling  

 

 

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