根据短文内容.从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项.选项中由两项为多余选项. 1 People use money to buy food, furnit

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中由两项为多余选项。

___1___  People use money to buy food, furniture, books, bicycles andhundreds of other things they need or want. When they work, they usually getpaid in money.

Most of themoney today is made of metal or paper. ___2 __ One of the first kinds ofmoney was shells.

Shells were notthe only things used as money. In China, cloth and knives were used. In thePhilippine 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 metalcoins were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the centre. ___3___

Differentcountries have used different metals and designs for their money.___4___Sweden and Russia used copper (铜) to make their money. Later some countries began to make coins ofgold and silver.

But even goldand silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive. Again theChinese thought of a way to improve money. ___5___ The first paper moneylooked more like a note from one person to another than the paper money usedtoday.

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

A. The first coins in England were made oftin (锡).

B. But people used to use all kinds ofthings as money.

C. No one knows for certain when peoplebegan to use money.

D. People strung (串连) them together and carriedthem 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 inexchange for goods and services.

试题答案

【答案】

 G

 B

 D

 A

 F

【解析】 略