1______ 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.2____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. 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 center. 3____
Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money.4____Sweden and Russia used copper 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. 5_____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 from the days of shells money until today.
A. The first coins in England were made of tin .
B. But people used to use all kinds of things as money.
C. No one knows for certain when people began to use money
D. People strung them together and carried them from place to place
E. Money, as we all know ,is made of paper
F. They began to use paper money
G. Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services
科目:高中英语 来源:2010-2011福建省师大附中高二下期末模块测试英语试卷 题型:阅读理解
Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Ohio, a state in the
US with a l______________ population. He didn’t have much school education
【小题1】____________
because the m______________ of his teachers thought he was not clever enough,
【小题2】 ____________
and his o_____________ of success is merely a dream. However, he became one
【小题3】____________
of the greatest ________________ (发明家) with a list of 1,093 U.S. patents. In
【小题4】 ____________
fact, there was evidence indicating that Edison was to distinguish ____________
【小题5】 ____________
later in life. The boy had a great d____________ for knowledge and was curious
【小题6】 ____________
about things. He did a lot of reading in the library while ___________ a living by
【小题7】 ____________
selling newspapers on trains. He often __________ (实验)with different things. All
【小题8】 ____________
these made him so extraordinarily ________________ (成功). Many people think
【小题9】 ____________
that we owe our way of life _________ his ideas and efforts.
【小题10】____________
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It’s going to be a busy day at Betsy Ross house in Philadelphia on Thursday. She won’t be there, since she died in 1836, but hundreds of tourists will be going through her house.
You see, Thursday is Flag Day in the United States. The unofficial holiday commemorates the adoption of the stars-and-stripes design of the American flag by the Continental Congress 235 years ago, on June 14, 1777. According to lore, the Ross House is the birthplace of the nation’s flag. That’s open to debate, but it’s a story that schoolbooks still tell. Betsy Ross was a seamstress, busy sewing cushions for chairs in Philadelphia, which was the focus place of the American revolution against British rule. The Declaration of Independence by the colonists was signed there, and so was the new nation’s Constitution after independence was won.
Widowed when her husband, a member of the local militia, was killed in a gunpowder explosion, Betsy Ross often mended the clothes of the rebels’ leader and future U.S. president, George Washington. According to what some say in history and others a stretch of what really happened, Washington asked Ross to design and sew the new nation’s flag. The story was promoted by Ross grandson, who wrote that Betsy Ross had “made with her hands the first flag.” She became a role model for girls - a shining example of women’s contributions to the nation’s history. Most research indicates that Ross did sew the first flag. She’s credited with substituting artful five-point white stars for six-pointed ones in the upper-left blue field. But many other accounts indicate George Washington brought the design to Ross and simply asked her to stitch it together.
In a letter, Washington wrote: “We take the stars from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her. And the white stripes shall go down to posterity as representing liberty.”
1.People would like to go to Ross’s house in Philadelphia to _____.
A. ask Betsy Ross who created the first American flag
B. meet her grandson who wrote a book about flags
C. debate over who designed the first American flag
D. remember her as the creator of the first American flag
2.Which statement is true according to the passage?
A. Betsy Ross was one of the people who signed The Declaration of Independence
B. All are in agreement that Ross designed the first American flag
C. It is almost certain that Ross did sew the first American flag
D. It is George Washington who designed the stars and stripes flag
3.The underlined the word “seamstress” in Paragraph 2 probably means_____.
A. a person who designs flags B. a person who makes a living by sewing
C. a person who takes part in revolution D. a person who creates chairs
4.What does the last paragraph imply according to the passage?
A. It implies that the U.S. is independent from Britain
B. It implies that Washington liked Ross’s design of the flag
C. It implies that Washington might be the designer of the flag
D. It implies that Ross did have helped with the design of the flag
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请根据句子的逻辑含义,用在模块三英语课本中所学的新词汇的正确形式填空。(共10小题;每空1 分,满分10分)
1.People space travel, people thought it was u___________ for anybody to go to the moon.
2.We s_________ Jenny and her boyfriend at the party but she didn’t notice us at all.
3.Twenty m________ by five equals one-hundred.
4.To open a new shop, one needs an official p_______.
5.Isaac Newton is famous for his theory of universal g_______.
6.Christians go to church every Sunday to attend the r_______ services.
7.Yang Peng and Rong Hui had their own menu in the beginning. But when they began their cooperation, their new menu became a c_________ of the original two.
8.Thank you for your good advice, from which I have b_______ greatly.
9.All the goods in that supermarket are on sale. Consumers can get 40% of d________.
10.He said he should take the responsibility for the failure of the plan but begged to be f________ by his boss.
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科目:高中英语 来源:20102011福建省高二下期末模块测试英语试题 题型:填空题
Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Ohio, a state in the
US with a l______________ population. He didn’t have much school education
1.____________
because the m______________ of his teachers thought he was not clever enough,
2. ____________
and his o_____________ of success is merely a dream. However, he became one
3.____________
of the greatest ________________ (发明家) with a list of 1,093 U.S. patents. In
4. ____________
fact, there was evidence indicating that Edison was to distinguish ____________
5. ____________
later in life. The boy had a great d____________ for knowledge and was curious
6. ____________
about things. He did a lot of reading in the library while ___________ a living by
7. ____________
selling newspapers on trains. He often __________ (实验)with different things. All
8. ____________
these made him so extraordinarily ________________ (成功). Many people think
9. ____________
that we owe our way of life _________ his ideas and efforts.
10.____________
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