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, from the days of shell money until today.
小题1: In the Philippines Islands ______ was once used as money.
A．rice
B．knife
C．cloth
D．wheat小题2:What was first used as money? ______.
A．Elephants tusks
B．Cloth
C．Salt
D．Shells小题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小题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小题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