题型:阅读选择 题类: 难易度:普通
湖南省岳阳市岳阳楼区等5地2023-2024学年七年级下学期6月期末英语试题
Mr. Brown is short-sighted (近视的) but he doesn't wear glasses, because he thinks it's not cool to wear glasses.
It is Saturday and it is fine today. Mr. Black likes sunny days and he wants to take a walk. He puts on(戴上) his black hat, takes his yellow bag and then goes out of his house. He walks on the street and looks around. The sun is shining and the birds are singing in the tree. Mr. Black feels very happy. Suddenly, a strong wind blows away his hat."Oh, my hat! "Mr. Black begins to run after(追赶) it. He runs and the hat"runs", too. Mr. Black feels surprised. An old man shouts at him from a window.
"Hey! What are you doing? "
"Running after my hat! "
"Your hat? You are running after my black cat."
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.
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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