2024年中考英语复习：完成图表 专项练习题汇编（PDF版，含解析）

2024年中考英语复习：完成图表专项练习题汇编
话题一事物介绍
Passage 1
As the science and technology is developing so fast,great changes have taken place in our
daily life,especially the way to buy things.It is so convenient and fast to pay that we just need a
smart phone,fingerprint,or even to put our faces in front of a camera.However,how did people
buy things in the past
Between 11,000 and 6,000 years ago,people started exchanging animals and food to get the
things they needed.It is named bartering()People bartered one thing for another.Here's
how it worked in the beginning.
Around 3,000 years ago,people thought that shells()were a good form of money.Why
The reasons are simple for people then.Shells are beautiful and hard.They don't break easily,so
they can last a long time.People can't find shells everywhere,which makes them valuable.If
people wanted something.they would pay shells for it.
Next,about two hundred years later,the first coin was invented in China.The coins were
made out of metal.Nowadays,we have small and round coins.But in the old days,they were
made into different shapes in different centuries.
About 1,200 years ago,the Chinese were the first to print money,but it wasn't paper money.
They used leather()which was made from the hides of animals.It wasn't until the seventh
century that they decided to use paper.At last,the world had its first paper money.Paper is lighter
than the coins and they can be carried more easily,so people like it very much.If you had paper
money,you wouldn't need so many coins.Strangely,it took much more centuries for other
countries around the world to start using such money.
Thanks to the development of technology,we still have paper money and coins,but now we
also pay for things electronically.
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