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英语通用职业技能竞赛 （个人赛项目） 初赛——职业能力在线试题 For the contestants Page PAGE 1 of NUMPAGES 10 I. Listening Comprehension and typing (英文听打) Directions：In the following practice, you will hear a short dialogue. Please type the correct information on the answer sheet according to the5 questions given bellow: Zhang Hui去失物招领处寻找手机事宜，请听录音（附音频文件），根据录音内容填写下面的相关信息： Items Information What’s the lost property? When did she lost it ? 2. Where did she lost it ? 3. Name of person turning in the lost property 4. Description of the lost property 5. II. Reading Comprehension (阅读理解) Directions: in the following practice，you are going to read 5 passages. After reading a passage, you will find questions or unfinished statements. For each question or statement, you are required to make the correct choice among A,B,C and D Passage 1 What makes money valuable? Why is a piece of paper marked $ 10 worth more than one marked $1? You could say there is no reason. It’s true that a special kind of paper is used to make dollar bills, and they are pretty, but that’s not what makes them valuable. The real reason money is valuable is that everyone believes it is. Ancient economies had no paper money or coins. Some used barter trading one thing for another. Others used all kinds of objects as money. Any object would do, as long as there was not an unlimited amount of it. Animals or metals were popular, and so were manufactured products like jewelry or weapons. Wealth in ancient Greece was measured in tools or cattle. This kind of money had two purposes. First, it was useful in itself. Tools and cattle can be used for farming. And second, it was a way to symbolize and measure value. A house, for example, would be valued at a certain number of tools or cattle. This greatly simplified trade. Other societies used money that was totally symbolic. For instance, American Indians used wampum, which is made from seashells. And until r