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1、 关于商务英语考试BEC初级单项选择试题练习 1、依据下面内容,答复题: Salt,shells or metals are still used as money in out of- he way parts of the world today.Salt may seem rather a strange(19)_to use as money,(20)_in countries where the food of the people is mainly vegetable,it is often an(21)_necessity.Cakesb of salt,stamped to s
2、how their(22)_,were used as money in some countries until recent(23)_ ,and cakes of salt(24)_buy goods in Borneo and parts of Africa. Sea shells(25)_as money at some time(26)_another over the greater part of the Old world.These were(27)_mainly from the beaches of the Maldives Islands in the Indian O
3、cean,and were traded to India and China.In Africa,shells were traded tigh acrossthe(28)_from East to West. Metal,valued by weight,(29)_ coins in many parts of the world.Iron,in lumps,bars or rings,is still used in many countries(30)_paper money.It Can either be exchanged(31)_goods,or made into tools
4、,weapons,or ornaments.The early money of China,apart from shells,was of bronze,(32) _in flat,round pieces with a hole in the middle,called“cash”.The(33) _of these are between three thousand and four thousand years old older than the earliest coins of the eastern Mediterranean. Nowadays,coins and not
5、es have replaced nearly all the more picturesque forms of money,and while in one or two of the more remote countries people still hold it for future use on ceremonial occasions such as weddings and funerals,examples of primitive money will soon be found only in museums. A.object B.article C.substance D.category