题目内容
American kids count money
They made from a lemonades sell
We see motley almost every day Parents give us pocket money.We pay for our favorite CDs with money.We can hardly imagine a world without money.
Money helps people trade(交易).If you want a kilo of chicken you don’t have to give the seller a box of apples.You can use money.Traders can give each other change to make the trade fair because of money.
With money the world becomes a big moving system.People work to get money.Then they use their money to buy things they want.Money travels from person to person and from place to place.
Money is usually coins and banknotes.Each country has its own currency(货币).Some have their leaders’ faces on the coins and banknotes;others have plants or animals.Still others have beautiful or historical places on the fronts or backs of currency.So you see, money also says something about the culture of a country.
1.Who usually give you pocket money?
2.Why can traders make the trade fair?
3.Why do people work according to the passage?
1.Parents
2.Because they have money
3.To get money
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A little girl called Fan Yi has caught many people’s attention recently. The little
1 first English story, Swordbird, was on the New York Times’ bestseller list for children’s fiction.
Fan Yi was born in Beijing in 1997. She 2 her second grade of primary school in Beijing. She 3 to the US with her parents at the age of 7. She has shown 4 interests in birds since she was a little girl.
When Fan 5 studying American history at school, she read many articles(文章) about the September 11 Attacks (9.11事件). She wanted all people to 6 in peace with each other. Around that time, she had a(n) 7 one night. In the dream, some birds fought with each other. Fan got an idea 8 the dream and turned it into a story. In it, she showed her idea of peace in the world.
In the future, Fan will write more 9 for the Swordbird series. Will she become another J.K Rowling? We 10 have to wait and see.