题目内容
短文填空，根据短文内容及所给首字母提示写出所缺单词, 并将完整单词填在下面对应题号后的横线上。
There was an old man who loved money very much . He n 1. gave anything to anybody . After some years he became r 2. .
One day he was walking near the river with hia friends when he fell into the river . His friends ran to help him . One of them held out his hand and cried , “ Give me your hand , and I’ll p 3. you out !” The rich
m 4. head went down the water a 5. then came up again , but he did not g 6.his hand to his friend . Again another of his friends tried , but again the s 7.thing happened .
Then a 8.friend , Nasreddin , said , “ Take my hand and “I’ll pull you out !” The rich man took his hand and Nasreddin pulled him out of the water .
“You don’t know your friend very w 9.. ” Nasreddin said to the others . “ When you say ‘ Give !’ to him , he d 10.nothing , but when you say ‘Take !’ , eh always takes.”
One day people heard a shout for help. They h (1)to the river, and saw a man in the water. A young fisherman jumped i (2) the river and s (3) to that man. Soon he pulled the man to the bank and carried him out of the water. All the people nearby praised the b (4)and kind man.
Now people found the man out of the water was the r (5) man in the town, he went over to the young fisherman and said, “Young man, you saved me, d (6) you? Thank you very much. I’d like to p (7) you for your kindness.”
He took out five cents and wanted to give it to the young man. Everybody was angry w (8) the rich man. Just then, an old man said to the young fisherman, “T (9) the five cents, young man. The rich gentleman’s life is w （10） just that much.
We usually use two kinds of money . One kind is money made of paper and the other kind is money made of m (1) . But in the past people used many things i (2) of money . Some countries used salt , tea or stones （石头）. Other countries even used some animals . Today people in some p (3) in the world still do not use paper money all the time .
On the island of Yap , people use the h (4) money in the world —Yap stones . These are round , white stones w (5) a hole in the middle . The Yap stones do not c (6) from this island . The Yap men have to go to the islands over 600 kilometres away to get t (7) .
Rich people do not carry Yap stones . Servants （仆人） f (8) the rich . Each servant carries a stone on a long s (9) over his shoulder （肩） . Today people on the island of Yap use paper money for everyday shopping . But for other things they still p (10) Yap stones to paper money .
