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阅读理解
A team of scientists proved that seals (海豹) had a very good sense of hearing. These men trained blind seals to expect food when they heard sounds. The seals always began snapping (猛咬) when a strong signal was sounded.
It' was proved that even a soft signal, a considerable distance away, could make these sea animals respond. That should make the fisherman who makes much noise while working, or talks loudly, start thinking.
The same team of scientists also trained seals to recognize different sounds. One bell-tone meant food, two bell-tones meant no food. In the beginning, the seals made mistakes when the two-bell tones were sounded. They were, given a light tap after each mistake. The seals were good learners. They easily learned to tell the difference between the sounds.
1．Why was it necessary to use blind seals? Because they ________.
A. were unable to use sight for clues (线索)
B. had better hearing
C. were waiting to be fed
D. were the only animals to be found
2．To those seals strong signal meant ________.
A. snapping
B. nothing
C. food
D. a light tap
3．The article doesn't say directly but suggests that fishermen usually think ________.
A. seals have no sense of hearing
B. seals have good sense of hearing
C. seals can only recognize bell sounds
D. seals cannot hear soft and long distant sounds
4．Light taps were given to those who ________.
A. expected food
B. came for food
C. made mistakes
D. recognized the sounds
解析：
1. 因为它们不能用眼睛看。 2. “These men trained blind seals to expect food when they heard sounds.” 根据这句可知，对它们来说，声音就意味着食物。 3. 根据第二段可以进行推测，答案为D。 4. “They were, given a light tap after each mistake.” 这句为信息句。
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A long time ago, before there was any money (coins or paper money), people got the things that they needed by trading or exchanging. Salt was one of the first items used to exchange for other items. Later, some of the common things that were used for exchanging were tea leaves, shells, feathers, animal teeth, tobacco, and blankets. Around 3000 BC, barley, a type of grain, was used for exchanging.
The world’s first metal money was developed by the Sumerians who melted silver into small bars all weighing the same. This was around 1000 BC. About three hundred years later, people started using coins as official money.
Around 640 BC, people in the ancient kingdom of Lydia ( which was in Turkey) created special coins of exact with and purity (纯度). They were made of gold and silver and were stamped with a lion’s head.
Later, other empires such as Greece, Persia, and Rome adopted the concept of coins and started developing their own in many different shapes and different metals.
Around the year 1000, the Chinese started using paper money. The Chinese were the first to use paper money. The Europeans discovered this thanks to Marco Polo who went to China in 1295. the Chinese had different values for the paper notes which were made by the Chinese government.
Around 1661, Sweden became the first European country to make paper money. Until 1850, the Spanish dollar was the coin most widely used throughout the world.
1What is the best title for this passage?
| A. | The history of money |
| B. | How people traded in the past |
| C. | The invention of paper money |
| D. | The use of coins around the world |
| A. | barley had always been used for exchanging |
| B. | only a few people knew how to trade with others |
| C. | salt was the most widely used item for exchanging |
| D. | many kinds of things were used for exchanging |
| A. | Around 1300 BC. | B. | Around 1000 BC. |
| C. | Around 700 BC. | D. | Around 640 BC. |
| A. | replaced | B. | changed |
| C. | accepted | D. | invented |
A. Spain B. China C. Sweden D. Lydia
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| 1.____ Auctions are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer.He asks the crowd assembled in the auctionroom to make offers, or "bids", for the various items on sale.He encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called "knocking down" the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer strikes a small hammer on a table at which he stands. 2. _____ The ancient Roman probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auction, meaning "increasing". The Romans usually sold in this way the goods taken in war.In England in the eighteenth centuries, goods were often sold "by the candle": a short candle was lit by the auctioneer, and bids could be made while it stayed alight. 3. _____ Practically all goods whose qualities vary are sold by auction.Among these are coffee, skins, wool, tea, furs, silk and wines.Auction sales are also usual for land and property, furniture, pictures, rare books, old china and similar works of art. 4. _____ An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by potential buyers.If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each group of goods to be sold together, called a "lot", is usually given a number.The auctioneer need not begin with Lot 1 and continue in the order of numbers: he may wait until he notices the fact that certain buyers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in. 5. _____ The auctioneer's services are paid for in the form of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high as possible.He will not waste time by starting the bidding too low.He will also play on the opponents among  his buyers andsucceed in getting a high price by en  couraging two business competitors to bid against each other. |