同步拓展阅读：新概念英语第3册第7课
一、往期回顾
【参考答案】
1. Robbery, dangerous driving and possession of an offensive weapon, criminal damage, and receiving stolen goods over the incident.
2. Smashing through the glass front driving a stolen Range Rover.
3. They were wearing motorcycle helmets and clad in black.
4. By brandishing a piece of the store’s broken awning.
5. He thought it was a reckless robbery and it was sheer luck that no one was seriously injured.
二、本期内容
【课文主题】
第7课讲的是残钞（Mutilated Ladies）的主题，所以我选择了一篇同样是有关残钞的文章。
【拓展阅读】
一、文章内容
In some countries, mutilated notes presented for payment are paid only in proportion to the area of the remains submitted. The Bank of England, however, has always regarded its notes as payable either in full or, if the fragments submitted do not satisfy minimum requirements, not at all. The procedure for dealing with claims for the payment of mutilated notes is not governed by legislation but has evolved with the Bank's experience of the task of satisfying all legitimate claims and at the same time seeking to ensure that there is no possibility that the same note might be paid twice.
Since 1963, when this subject was last reviewed in the Bulletin, and applications for payment of mutilated notes were running at about 100,000 per year, both the 10s and the £1 note have ceased to be issued. Not surprisingly, this has greatly reduced the number of applications received. The location of the work also changed when the Mutilated Notes Section was transferred to the Bank's Newcastle Branch, in 1975, as part of a decentralisation exercise.
The number of applications received each year peaked in the early 1970s at about 180,000. Some fifty staff were then needed to handle the work. At the time the operation was transferred to Newcastle, claims had fallen to about 150,000 per annum, but this still required some forty-five staff. And by the late 1980s the workload was less than half that of ten years before. All this, together with a more streamlined approach to the painstaking job of piecing notes together for adjudication purposes, has led to a great reduction in the number of staff required.
Today the section is staffed by only six people, but even so, they deal with over 27,000 applications in a year.
二、阅读题目
根据文章内容回答下列问题：
1. What does the Bank of England seek to ensure while satisfying all legitimate claims?
2. How many applications were running annually before 1963?
3. Why was the Mutilated Notes Section transferred to Newcastle in 1975?
4. What was the peak number of applications and how many staff were thus needed?
5. When was the workload less than halved?