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Consolidation 4. Units 1-10. Reading skills - номер 1, страница 99.

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READING SKILLS

1 Read the article and choose the correct answers.

The millionaire secretary

Criminal or hero?

In one of the most amazing financial scandals ever, Joyti De-Laurey, a secretary in a banking company, stole £4.5m from her employers in order to buy herself designer clothes, expensive cars and jewellery. She copied her bosses’ signatures, wrote cheques to herself and stole the money from their personal bank accounts. Some people think she was a hero: a modern-day Robin Hood. Others say she was just an ordinary criminal.

Expensive tastes

The 37-year-old from London spent millions. She shopped in the most expensive shops, went to the best hairdressers and regularly ate in the most exclusive restaurants. She bought an Aston Martin car, a villa in Cyprus, and spent more than £350,000 on Cartier jewellery. The more money she spent, the fatter she got. By the time she had spent £4.5m, she was enormous and needed even more clothes in larger sizes.

Enormous salaries

Her bosses earned so much money that months went past before anybody noticed that she had stolen anything. One ex-managing director said, ‘When you’re making £60m a year, a few million missing is like a regular person not remembering the last penny on their account.’

You’re under arrest

Finally De-Laurey was caught in May 2002. Her boss was going to give some money to charity, so he had checked his bank accounts and discovered that there was a fortune missing. The police found many expensive things in De-Laurey’s house: Cartier jewellery still in its boxes, almost fifty designer handbags, and lots more. She never got to live in the dream villa she had bought in the Mediterranean. Unfortunately for her, she was arrested just before she left for Cyprus.

A great artist

During her trial she laughed and joked with the journalists who described her as the ‘Picasso of Con Artists’. She said that her bosses had told her she could take the money. Unsurprisingly, the jury didn’t believe her story, and she was found guilty. The judge said that she was a born liar and sentenced her to seven years in prison.

1 What was Joyti De-Laurey’s job?

a secretary

b designer

c banker

2 Who did she steal from?

a her company

b her bosses

c exclusive shops

3 What happened to her because of her new lifestyle?

a She lost weight.

b She got fatter.

c She moved to Cyprus.

4 Why did nobody notice what she was doing?

a She was very careful.

b She didn’t steal much.

c Her bosses had too much money.

5 How was she caught?

a She told her boss what she was doing.

b Her boss examined his bank account.

c A policeman saw her with some jewellery.

6 What did she say at her trial?

a That she was a great artist.

b That she hadn’t taken any money.

c That her bosses had allowed her to take the money.

Решение.