阅读理解。
Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services. 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. But people used to use all kinds of things as money.
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 Phillipine
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. People
strung (串联) them together and carried them from place to place.
Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money. The first coins in England
were made of tin (锡). Sweden and Russia used copper (铜) 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. They began to use paper money. The first paper money looked more like
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.
1. In the Philippines Islands _____ was once used as money.
A. rice
B. knife
C. cloth
D. wheat
2. What was the first used as money?
A. Elephants tusks
B. Cloth
C. Salt
D. Shells
3. The first metal coins looked like _____.
A. square-shaped with some designs on them
B. square-shaped with a round hole in the center
C. round-shaped with a square hole in the middle
D. round-shaped with a round hole in the middle
4. The first paper money ______.
A. was passed from west Asia to China
B. looked like a note used today
C. was first used in Europe
D. looked like a piece of fur
5. We can infer from the passage that _____.
A. paper money isn't difficult to make
B. money must be suited to carry
C. people need money to exchange goods with each other
D. people prefer metal coins to paper notes
