题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
安徽省安庆市迎江区2019-2020学年八年级下学期英语期中测试卷
If you can choose(选择)a person as your neighbour, 1do you want to choose?Perhaps you will choose a film star like Brad Pitt or a2man like Bill Gates. You3choose a president(总统)like Barack Obama or your best friend. Do you want to know who I want to choose4my neighbour? It's a detective(侦探)5Sherlock Holmes(福尔摩斯).
I really want to be a detective like him. I think I can learn6from him if I live next to him.7his neighbour can make it convenient(方便)for me to learn from him. If I choose to live next to Sherlock Holmes, no bad people can hurt(伤害)me because they are8of him. When I have some problems, I can run to his house and9him for help. What's more, maybe I can have a10to work with him.
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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