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录音文字材料、参考答案及详细解答听力原文PART Ⅱ DICTATIONMONEYMoney is accepted across the world as payment for goods or services. People use money to buy food, clothes and hundreds of other things. In the past, many different things were used as money. People on Pacific islands once exchanged shells for goods. The Chinese used cloth and knives. In Africa, elephant tusks or salt were used. Even today, some people in Africa are still paid in salt. Coins were first invented by the Chinese. Originally, they were round pieces of metal with a hole in the center, so that a piece of string could keep them together. This made doing business much easier, but people still found coins inconvenient to carry when they wanted to buy something expensive. To solve this problem, the Chinese again came up with the solution. They began to use paper money for coins. Now paper notes are used throughout the world.Now you have two minutes to check through your work.PART Ⅲ LISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A STATEMENT1. Lily studied drama at the university but she used to work as a policewoman. Now she is a teacher because she likes children.2. May I have your attention, please? Flight 5125 scheduled to take off at 11:30will be delayed for 20 minutes. Please check-in half an hour prior to departure. 3. There is a railway strike in the south region and several trains have been canceled, however, the strike doesn’t seem to be spreading to other regions. 4. Latest reports from the northeast provinces say that at least sixteen peoplelost their lives in Sunday’s floods. A further nine people, mostly children arereported missing.5. John, your paper must be revised over the weekend and handed in its final form on Monday. If you have any problem, call the office directly. 6. My discovery of Mary Jackson was as a matter of fact, a gift from a friend. Years ago I was given a copy of Tell Me a Riddle, and I liked the stories.7. Oh! Talking about money, it’s terrible when you think how tiring the work is. I