A variety of illegal acts committed by people in the course of their employment, for their own personal gain, are collectively known as white-collar crime. Embezzlement, theft and trading securities (1) insider information are common forms of white-collar crime. The majority of cases involve low-level employees who steal because they are under (2) financial stress. Many plan to (3) the money back as soon as possible but may never do so. Their crimes are usually never (4) because the amounts of money are small, and no one notices the (5) .
(6) , there are some very large cases of white-collar crime, such as multimillion-dollar stock market or banking seams that take years to discover and are extremely difficult and expensive to (7) .
White-collar crime is not (8) to the business sector. Government employment, especially (9) the city level, also provides opportunities to (10) one’s pockets. (11) , building inspectors accept bribes and full-time employees receive (12) payments.
Although white-collar crime is less (13) than street crime, it involves (14) more money and harm to the public than crimes committed by street criminals. It is (15) that there are more criminals (16) the office suites than in the streets, yet the (17) of white-collar makes it difficult to uncover the offenses and pursue the offenders. As the economy (18) from manufacturing to services and electronic commerce, opportunities for white-collar crime (19) , while the technology needed to stop such crimes will (20) .
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A. due to
B. in consequence of
C. on the basis of
D. for the benefit of
参考答案：C
解析：
短文在首句引入白领犯罪这个概念后，随后给出白领犯罪的通常形式，即：embezzlement，theft以及trading securities，三者为并列的犯罪形式，由and连接。既然是犯罪形式，交易证券(trading securities)应该以内幕消息(insider information)为依据，所以排除表示因果关系的[A]due to和[B]in consequence of；[D]for the benefit of常与人搭配使用，如：for the benefit of his colleagues意为“为了他同事的利益”，而for the benefit of insider information属于搭配不当；因此答案为[C]。