阅读理解

　　Many people want to buy old, old coins (硬币). But, before you part with your good money, watch out! You may be buying a coin that is really a fake(假货).

　　Experts tell us that the making of fake coins goes back 2, 000 years. In the old days, those who faked coins were punished(惩罚)with death. But now the making and selling of fake coins is a legal business.

　　Some of the fake coins are made so well that they are listed in coin books. And these coins are sought after by collectors. They will pay a high price for them. It is one thing to buy a fake coin when it is sold as a fake. But it is another thing to buy a fake coin when it sold as the real thing. The best advice is always to buy from a reputable(声誉好的)dealer(商人).

　　The dealer will take back a coin if it should prove to be a fake one. But this advice is hard to follow if you visit other countries yourself. You might be tempted to buy coins“from the soil”rather than from a dealer. And many of these fake coins do come right from the soil. The fake coins are buried in secret. Then they are dug up in front of witnesses. The dealers themselves can be fooled by this.

　　Another trick is for someone who sells postcards to have one fake coin. It is a copy of a rare(稀有的)coin and is placed among some real but common coins. The visitor sees the real coins. The visitor thinks then that the rare coin is real too. When this happens, the visitor has been tricked. So, if you decide to buy old coins, be careful !

1．This passage is mainly about ________.

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A．today's coins

B．how old coins were made

C．fake coins

D．coin collectors

2．This passage tells of coins ________.

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3．People who are tricked into buying fake coins are most often ________.

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A．coin collectors

B．people who stay at home

C．antique(古玩)dealers

D．visitors to another country

4．The last sentence is trying ________.

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阅读理解，判断正（T）误（F）

People use money to buy food,books,bicycles and hundreds of other things they need.When they work,they usually get paid in money.

Most of the money used today is made of metal(金属) or paper.But in ancient(古代的) time,?people often used all kinds of things as money.One of the first kinds of money was shells(贝壳).

In China,cloth and knives were used as money.Elephant tusks(象牙)，monkey tails and salt were used in some parts of Africa.Rice was also a kind of money used by the ancient people in some islands.Cows and other animals were used as money,too.

The first copper coins(铜币) were made in China.They were round and had a square(方形)hole in the center.Different countries had used different metal for their money.Later some countries began to make coins of gold and silver.But gold and silver were heavy to carry when people need a lot of coins to buy something expensive.The Chinese were the first to use paper money.The first paper money looked more like a note from one paper to another than the paper money used today.

1.People used all kinds of things as money in ancient times.

2.African people used copper coin as money in the old days.

3.People gave up gold and silver coins because they were easy to slip off.

4.The Indians were the first to use paper money.

5.The passage is mainly about the history of money.