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浙江省衢州市六校联谊2019-2020学年七年级上学期英语期中质量检测卷（含听力音频）
Gina comes from England. She is fourteen years old. Her mother is Mrs Johnson. She is a nurse at a hospital. She likes fruit and vegetables. She doesn't eat too much sweet food or meat, so she stays healthy. Gina likes chocolate and candy. But her mother tells her that too much sweet food isn't good for her teeth. Gina likes cola. But her mother tells her that it isn't a kind of healthy drink. Gina thinks her mother's words (话) are right. So she eats well and stays healthy. Gina's father is a bus driver. He likes having meat. He likes sweet food--chocolate and candy too. He eats too much food for dinner so he is fat. Gina and her mother often say to him, "Healthy food and drinks are important to everyone."
Long ago, people did not need money. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
As time passed, people learned to raise animals and crops. Sometimes, families produced more than they needed, so they started to trade (交易) with other families. Later, people began to use money as a means of exchange. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}They used shells, rice, salt, large stones, etc.
During the 600s BC, people began using coins as money. They soon found that coins were easier to carry than goods (货物) and lasted a long time. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}
The Chinese were the first to use paper money, probably as early as the eleventh century. The Italian traveller Marco Polo saw the Chinese using paper money when he visited China in the 1200s. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}
Today, we have many ways to pay for things. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Often, people prefer to pay for things by card. Paying with a card is easier and safer than carrying around a lot of "real" money.
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A. Later, countries began to make their own coins. B. However, it was not the kind of money we use today. C. They lived on wild animals, fruits and other plants. D. However, European countries did not start using paper money until the 1600s. E. We do not use only coins or paper money. |
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