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游客2023-08-09  25
问题    A UK supermarket has become the first in the world to let shoppers pay for groceries using just the veins in their fingertips.
   Customers at the Costcutter store, at Brunei University in London, can now pay using their unique vein pattern to identify themselves.
   The firm behind the technology, Sthaler, has said it is in "serious talks" with other major UK supermarkets to adopt hi-tech finger vein scanners at pay points across thousands of stores.
   It works by using infrared (红外线) to scan people’s finger veins and then links this unique biometric (生物特征识别的) map to their bank cards. Customers’ bank details are then stored with payment provider Worldpay, in the same way you can store your card details when shopping online. Shoppers can then turn up to the supermarket with nothing on them but their own hands and use it to make payments in just three seconds.
   It comes as previous studies have found fingerprint recognition, used widely on mobile phones, is vulnerable to being hacked and can be copied even from finger smears left on phone screens.
   But Sthaler claims vein technology is the most secure biometric identification method as it cannot be copied or stolen.
   Sthaler said dozens of students were already using the system and it expected 3,000 students out of 13,000 to have signed up by November.
   Vein scanners are also used as a way of accessing high-security UK police buildings and authorising internal trading at least one major British investment bank.
   The firm is also in discussions with nightclubs, gyms about using the technology to verify membership and even Premier League football clubs to check people have the right access to VIP hospitality areas.
   The technology uses an infrared light to create a detailed map of the vein pattern in your finger. It requires the person to be alive, meaning in the unlikely event a criminal hacks off someone’s finger, it would not work. Sthaler said it takes just one minute to sign up to the system initially and, after that, it takes just seconds to place your finger in a scanner each time you reach the supermarket checkout.
   Simon Binns, commercial director of Sthaler, told the Daily Telegraph: "This makes payments so much easier for customers. They don’t need to carry cash or cards. They don’t need to remember a pin number. You just bring yourself. This is the safest form of biometrics. There are no known incidences where this security has been breached. When you put your finger in the scanner it checks you are alive, it checks for a pulse, and it checks for haemoglobin (血红蛋白). Your vein pattern is secure because it is kept on a database in an encrypted form, as binary numbers. No card details are stored with the retailer or ourselves, it is held with Worldpay, in the same way it is when you buy online. " [br] It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that______.
选项 A、the Costcutter store offers finger vein payment in the world first
B、there are no two identical fingerprints in the world
C、Sthaler has spread its finger vein recognition technology to the overseas market
D、customers have their finger veins scanned at the checkout in British supermarkets
答案 A
解析 推理判断题。第一段提到，英国的一家超市成为世界上首家允许购物者使用其指尖静脉付款购买食品杂货的超市。紧接着第二段指出，在伦敦布鲁内尔大学的考斯特卡特商店内，顾客如今可以使用能确认其身份的独特静脉分布图进行付款。由此推知，世界上首家使用手指静脉付款技术的超市就是考斯特卡特超市，故答案为A)。B)“世界上没有两个完全相同的指纹”，文中未提及，故排除；C)“斯泰勒公司已经将手指静脉识别技术传播到海外市场”，目前该技术还在国内试点阶段，并未传播到海外市场，故排除；D)“顾客在英国超市收银台扫描他们的手指静脉”，原文只提到，斯泰勒公司正在与英国其他的大超市进行“严肃的谈判”，计划让数千家商店的收银台采用高科技手指静脉扫描仪，该项与原文不符，故排除。
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