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 we need or want. When they work, they usually get paid in money.
Lots of the money today is made of 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 Philippine Islands, rice was used as money for a long time. Some Africans once used elephant tusks, monkey tails, and salt as money.
The first metal coins were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the center. Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money. Later, 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 a note from one person to another than the paper money used today.
Money has had an interesting history, form the days of shell money until today.
1.In the Philippine Islands was once used as money.
A. rice B. knife
C. cloth D. wheat
2.What was first used as money?
A. Elephants tusks. B. Cloth.
C. Salt. D. Sheik
3.The first paper money .
A. wan 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
4.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
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The Internet has long been regarded as a wonderful tool that allows students to gain insight to useful resources and information. However，this is not always the case.
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Patience is of great importance in our daily life. Once I waited a bus to come at a stop. 30 minutes past, but no bus came. Both upset and annoyed, I decided to walk on feet. But no sooner had I left when the bus arrived. I thought if I had waited for one more minute, I would have caught it. If I chose to take a next bus, I would have to wait for other 30 minutes. Only then do I realize my problem. Being impatient will possible waste all the effort that we have put it in. Now whenever I am close to lose my patience, I’ll think of this experience.
Mirai Nagasu had already lived at least two lifetimes in the sport of figure skating(花样滑冰) when she showed up in Colorado Springs in March 2014. After _______ her only national title at 14 in 2008 and finishing a _______ fourth at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Nagasu’s _______ turned, dramatically. A couple of rough _______followed, then she came back to finish third at the 2014 U.S. nationals before the Sochi Olympics, only to be _______from the U.S. team by a committee in favor of fourth-place finisher Ashley Wagner.
Nagasu was _______. “It was awful,” she said. “I was very close to _______. ”She trained hard every day in Southern California _______she was needed as the first alternate. She was not. Looking for a change of scenery, she _______to go to Colorado to visit her friend Agnes and try to ________what to do with the rest of her life. It was there that Nagasu ________ the Olympic coach Tom Zakrajsek, who she asked if he would ________her. It turned out that the ________to what Nagasu wanted to do with the rest of her life, couldn’t have been ________. She kept on skating. “The new environment really ________. ”At their ________ first lesson together, Zakrajsek told her, “You can do triple axel(三圈半跳跃). ”“I ________，”Nagasu said, “and I want to. ”Undoubtedly, she mastered it.
Nagasu, now 4, an age by which young ________have often left the sport. ________, she continued. She was headed to Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic to perform in the women’s free skate. Her efforts finally ________.
1.A. writing B. breaking C. losing D. winning
2.A. tiring B. boring C. surprising D. terrifying
3.A. fortunes B. interest C. career D. temper
4.A. months B. decades C. weeks D. years
5.A. dropped B. escaped C. absent D. forbidden
6.A. impressed B. inspired C. desperate D. fascinated
7.A. fighting B. falling C. drowning D. quitting
8.A. now that B. in case C. for fear that D. on condition that
9.A. decided B. refused C. regretted D. demanded
10.A. let out B. figure out C. look for D. put forward
11.A. searched B. met C. changed D. attracted
12.A. marry B. blame C. save D. coach
13.A. key B. approach C. answer D. entrance
14.A. simpler B. harder C. worse D. higher
15.A. adapted B. helped C. mattered D. benefited
16.A. very B. just C. already D. ever
17.A. must B. can C. should D. may
18.A. alternates B. teenagers C. women D. coaches
19.A. Therefore B. Besides C. Otherwise D. Instead
20.A. came true B. counted on C. paid off D. picked up
The world’s first “Sky Pool” has been uncoated（曝光）-and it’ll give anyone a touch of dizziness（眩晕）, unless he or she is not bothered by heights.
Situated in the capital’s new riverside district beside Battersea Power Station, the glass pool, hanging 10 storeys, or 110 feet up as a bridge between two apartment buildings, is 25m long, 5m wide and 3m deep with a water depth of 1. 2m. Swimmers will be able to look down 35 meters to the street below as they take a dip, with only 20cm of glass between them and the outside world. It’s even got a bar, folding chairs and an orange garden.
The pool will be part of Embassy Gardens at Nine Elms, a huge￡15 billion building project beside the new American Embassy in south-west London. The project is creating thousands of apartments, the smallest of which are expected to cost nearly $1 million, and the pool will only be open to the apartments’ owners.
Embassy Gardens takes design inspiration from the Meatpacking District of New York with floor to ceiling windows and brick frontages. The designer, Sean Mulryan, desired to push the boundaries in the capability of construction and engineering and do something that had never been done before. The Sky Pool’s transparent structure is the result of significant advancements in technologies over the last decade.
The experience of the pool will be truly unique and it will feel like floating through the air in central London.
Those people lucky enough to swim there will have a perfect view of the Palace of Westminster and the London Eye. It will be a selling point for developers when the second stage of the development is released to market.
1.Who can swim in the Sky Pool?
A. Anyone at Nine Elms.
B. Visitors to London.
C. People living in Embassy Gardens.
D. Those who are not terrified of heights.
2.People lucky enough to swim in the Sky Pool can do the following except .
A. drinking with friends B. experiencing diving and surfing
C. appreciating the London Eye D. sitting in the orange garden
3.What do we know from the text?
A. The pool lies in the centre of London.
B. The pool is 25 metres above the ground.
C. The pool was similar to New York’s modern constructions.
D. The pool is helpful for selling apartments in Embassy Gardens.
4.We can infer from the text that ________ .
A. the apartments in Embassy Gardens are fairly expensive
B. the new American Embassy has been moved away
C. Nine Elms is a street in Embassy Gardens
D. building the pool is not a complex job
People typically wash their hands seven times a day in the United States, but they do it at a far higher temperature than is necessary to kill germs, a new study says. The energy waste is equivalent to the fuel use of a small country.Amanda R. Carrico, a research assistant professor at the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment in Tennessee, told National Geographic that hand washing is often “a case where people act in ways that they think are in their best interest, but they in fact have inaccurate beliefs or outdated perceptions.”
Carrico said, “It’s certainly true that heat kills bacteria, but if you were going to use hot water to kill them it would have to be a way too hot for you to tolerate.”
Carrico said that after a review of the scientific literature, her team found “no evidence that using hot water that a person could stand would have any benefit in killing bacteria.” Even water as cold as 40°F (4.4°C) appeared to reduce bacteria as well as hotter water, if hands were scrubbed, rinsed(冲洗)and dried properly.
Using hot water to wash hands is therefore unnecessary, as well as wasteful, Carrico said, particularly when it comes to the environment. According to her research, people use warm or hot water 64 percent of the time when they wash their hands. Using that number, Carrico’s team calculated a significant impact on the planet.
“Although the choice of water temperature during a single hand wash may appear unimportant, when multiplied by the nearly 800 billion hand washes performed by Americans each year, this practice results in more than 6 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions annually,” she said.
The researchers published their results in the July 2013 issue of International Journal of Consumer Studies. They recommended washing with water that is at a “comfortable” temperature, which they noted may be warmer in cold months and cooler in hot ones.
1.What’s the meaning of what Carrico told National Geographic in the second paragraph?
A. People are more concerned about their health and begin to wash their hands.
B. It’s important for people to wash their hands to keep healthy.
C. Generally, people’s hand washing behaviors and perceptions are not correct.
D. People like washing their hands very much.
2.The figures in the passage are used to show that __________.
A. using hot water to wash hands has a bad influence on our planet.
B. air pollution has become more and more serious.
C. using hot water to wash hands is a waste of energy.
D. people should pay more attention to the environment around us.
3.This passage is organized in the pattern of __________.
A. fact and opinion B. cause and effect
C. definition and classification D. time and events
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A. It’s necessary and useful for people to wash their hands frequently every day.
B. We can wash our hands with water that is at a “comfortable” temperature.
C. Using cold water to wash hands is necessary and much healthier.
D. Hot water can’t kill germs.
