二、阅读理解（共 2 道试题，共 40 分。）

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二、阅读理解（共 2 道试题，共 40 分。）V
1.  
    Once there was a king. He liked to write stories. He thought his stories were good, so he liked to show them to people. As people were afraid to criticize the king’s stories, they all said that his stories were very good.
    One day, the king showed some of his best stories to a famous writer. He wanted the writer to say good of these stories. But the writer said his stories were so bad that he should throw them into the fire. The king got very angry with him and sent him to prison(监狱).
    After some time the king felt sorry for the writer and set him free. When the writer returned from prison, the king ordered him to come to his palace. Again he showed him some of his new stories and asked what he thought of them. After reading them, the writer at once turned to the soldier and said,“Take me back to prison, please.”
1). Why did people say the king’s stories were good?
A. Because they were afraid to be in trouble.
B. Because they liked the stories very much
C. Because the king was a famous writer.
D. Because the king’s stories were interesting.
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2). Why did the king like to show people his stories?
A. Because he wanted people to criticize them.
B. Because he thought his stories were good.
C. Because he knew people enjoyed his stories.
D. Because he liked to play a trick on other people.
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3). Which of the following is true?
A. The writer said he liked the stories very much.
B. The writer said people hated the stories.
C. The writer said the stories were badly written.
D. The writer said it was good for people to read the stories.
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4). Why did the writer ask the soldier to take him back to prison?
A. Because he enjoyed living in the prison.
B. Because he didn’t like the king at all.
C. Because the king didn’t want to set him free.
D. Because he thought the king’s new stories were still badly written.
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5). What do you think of the famous writer?
A. He was an honest man and never told a lie.
B. He was a strange man.
C. There was something wrong with him.
D. He was a little afraid of the king.
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2.  
    Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services. People use money to buy food, furniture, books, bicycles and hundreds of other things we need or want. When they work, they usually get paid in money.
    Lots of the money today is made of paper. But people used to use all kinds of things as money. One of the first kinds of money was shells. Shells were not the only things used as money.
    In China, cloth and knives were used. In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as money for a long time. Some Africans once used elephant tusks, monkey tails, and salt as money.
    The first metal coins were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the center. Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money. Later, countries began to make coins of gold and silver.
    But even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive. Again the Chinese thought of a way to improve money. They began to use paper money. The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than the paper money used today.
    Money has had an interesting history, from the days of shell money until today.
1). In the Philippines Islands ______ was once used as money.
A. rice
B. knife
C. cloth
D. wheat
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2). What was first used as money? ______.
A. Elephants tusks
B. Cloth
C. Salt
D. Shells
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3). The first metal coins looked like ______.
A. square-shaped with some designs on them
B. square-shaped with a round hole in the center
C. round-shaped with a square hole in the middle
D. round-shaped with a round hole in the middle
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4). The first paper money ______.
A. was passed from west Asia to China
B. looked like a note used today
C. was first used in Europe
D. looked like a piece of fur
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5). We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. paper money isn’t difficult to make
B. money must be suited to carry
C. people need money to exchange goods with each other
D. people prefer metal coins to paper notes
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