原标题：Cybercrime is worse than expected 国际网络犯罪较预期严重
英国国家打击犯罪调查局（ National Crime Agency ）警告，相关商务及执法部门在打击网络罪犯中处于劣势，因为网络犯罪团伙的技术实力在不断赶超相关部门处理这类威胁的能力。请听 Sangita Mysta 的报道。
According to the National Crime Agency, a key threat to the UK comes from a few hundred international criminal gangs. It says some operate well-developed networks that run call centres and employ translators to help commit crime on a massive scale.
Official figures, the report says, suggest there were 2.46 million so-called cyber incidents last year, of which over 700,000 were reported as fraud.
The NCA says the true scale of criminality is likely to be far bigger because of what it calls a serious problem of under-reporting.
词汇表
key threat 主要威胁
well-developed 健全的，发展完善的
networks （犯罪团伙）网络
commit 做（错事）；犯（罪）
massive （规模）巨大的
so-called 号称的
cyber 网络的，和计算机有关的
fraud 欺骗，欺诈行为
criminality 犯罪行为或活动
under-reporting 报案数量不足（指报案的数量比实际犯罪行为少）
测验
请听报道并回答下列问题。
1. How many criminal gangs are believed to cause most of the cybercrime in the UK?
2. True or false? 2.46 million cases of fraud were reported in the UK last year.
3. Why does the NCA think the problem of cybercrime could be much bigger?
4. Which word in the text means size or level of something?
答案
1. How many criminal gangs are believed to cause most of the cybercrime in the UK?
A few hundred international criminal gangs.
2. True or false? 2.46 million cases of fraud were reported in the UK last year.
False. There were 2.46 million so-called cyber incidents last year of which over 700,000 were reported as fraud.
3. Why does the NCA think the problem of cybercrime could be much bigger?
Because many cyber crimes have not been reported.
4. Which word in the text means size or level of something?
Scale.
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