广东省佛山市高明区2016-2017学年高二英语下学期晚练（九）.docVIP

广东省佛山市高明区2016-2017学年高二英语下学期晚练（九） 一、阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 In early societies, people relied on a simple system of exchange (交换). Perhaps a good hunter（猎人） had more animal skins than he could use. His neighbor, a good fisherman, might have too many fish but needed furs (皮毛) to protect his children from the cold. Both soon realized that their problems could be easily solved by exchanging what they did not need for what they did need. This method（方法） of exchange is called barter. The word comes from the Italian barattare and the French barater, which mean “to trade.” As societies developed, people in ancient times turned to many different things in the search for a good way of exchange, or money. One of the earliest forms of money was cattle (牛). The richest person was the one who owned the most farm animals, such as cows and sheep. Cattle were called capitale in Latin, and from that Latin word we get the English word “capital,” meaning “wealth.” But people came to realize that this new method often failed to produce satisfactory（令人满意的） results. A cow or a sheep must be fed and cared for. Sometimes they died of disease. Some animals were fat and some were thin. A person who wanted to sell something might believe that it was worth（值得） much more than one cow. The buyer might not be willing to give the seller two. Paying a cow and a half 。was certainly not a good way to solve the problem. When people began to trade with people who lived far away, again a new way of exchange had to be found. Soon such things as grain (谷物) and salt came into use（开始被使用）. They could be weighed exactly. They could be stored（储存） and transported easily. Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt. And it is from salarium, the Latin word for “salt money,” that our own word “salary” comes. We still speak of people as not being worth their salt if they do not do their jobs well. 1. whats the meaning of the underlined word barter in paragraph 1? A. 电池 B.物物交换 C货物