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牛津深圳版初二英语上第二单元 牛津深圳版初二英语上第二单元 Unit2 Numbers number 数字 instruction 指示 check 检查，核实 gram 克 son 儿子 chess 国际象棋 India 印度 wise 充满智慧的 challenge 向（某人）挑战 promise 许诺，承诺 prize 奖赏，奖品 grain 谷粒 chessboard 国际象棋 double 加倍 amount 数量，数额 rest 剩余部分 gold 金子，黄金 instead 代替，顶替 realize 认识到，意识 到 copy 抄写 correctly 准确无误地，正确地 accident （交通）事故 challenge to 向（某人）挑战 and so on 等等 copy down 抄写 课文The king and the rice A long time ago, there was a king in India. The king’s favourite game was chess. One day, a wise old man came to the palace and the king challenged him to a game. The king promised the old man, “ You can have any prize if you win the game.” The old man said, “If I win the game, I’d like one grain of rice for the first square of the chessboard, two for the second, four for the third, and then double the amount for each of the rest of the squares.” “Is that all?” asked the king. “Wouldn ’t you like gold or silver instead?” “No, just rice,” replied the old man. The king and the old man played the game for a long time. Finally, the old man won. So the king ordered his men to collect a bag of rice. He put one grain on the first square, two on the second, and so on. The king quickly realized the problem even with all the rice in the country, he would still not have enough rice to put on all the squares! Counting before numbers Before the invention of written number, people used many different ways to count numbers. Before the invention of written numbers, people used many different ways to count things. At first, people use their fingers, and even their toes. However, they could only count small numbers in this way. After that, they began to make small marks on sticks and bones. This helped them count bigger numbers. They used them to count the days of the month, the amount of food and the number of animals they have. Then people began to use tokens made from clay or small stones. This helped them count even bigger number