Question

   1.   People use money to buy food, furniture, books, bicycles and hundreds of other things they need or want. When they work, they usually get paid in money.

    Most of the money today is made of metal or paper.   2.    One of the first kinds of money was shells. Shells were not the only things used as money. In China, cloth and knives were used. In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as money for a long time. Elephant tusks, monkey tails and salt were used as money in parts of Africa.

    The first metal coins were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the centre.    3.    Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money.   4.   Sweden and Russia used copper (銅) to make their money. Later some countries began to make coins of gold and silver.

But even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive. Again the Chinese thought of a way to improve money.   5.   The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than the paper money used today.

    Money has had an interesting history from the days of shell money until today.

A. The first coins in England were made of tin (錫).

B. But people used to use all kinds of things as money.

C. No one knows for certain when people began to use money.

D. People strung (串連) them together and carried them from place to place.

E. Money, as we know, is all made of paper.

F. They began to use paper money.

G. Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.G

2.B

3.D

4.A

5.F

【解析】

試題分析：本文敘述了中國是最早的金屬幣的使用國家，講述的是我國的圓形方孔錢即我國的“銅錢”， 由于攜帶不方便所以金屬貨幣被紙幣所取代，就出現了最早的紙幣，隨后描述了紙幣的特征，所以我們就開始使用紙幣了。

1.根據People use money to buy food, furniture, books, bicycles and hundreds of other things they need or want.后面談到人們的生活離不開錢，所以第一句應該填貨幣的重要性眾所周知。故選G。

2.根據整個第三自然段的核心意思是在很久以前人們使用各種各樣形式的貨幣，而第二段講述的是貨幣的形式主要是金屬和紙幣，與第三段的內容截然不同，所以我們要采用轉折句來描述以前的貨幣形式種類多樣。故選B。

3.中國是最早的金屬幣的使用國家，講述的是我國的圓形方孔錢即我國的“銅錢”，緊接著描述的是把錢串起來使用，在古代稱為“一貫”，故選D。

4.第五段講述的是不同的國家用不同的金屬來設計和制造本國的貨幣，如瑞典和俄國用銅，那我們可以推測到本空要寫英國最早使用錫。故選A。

5.最后一段講述到由于攜帶不方便所以金屬貨幣被紙幣所取代，就出現了最早的紙幣，隨后描述了紙幣的特征，所以我們選人們開始使用紙幣。故選F。

考點：信息匹配。