Salt, shells or metals are still used as money in out-the-way parts of the world today. Salt may seem rather a strange 【B1】_

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问题     Salt, shells or metals are still used as money in out-the-way parts of the world today.
    Salt may seem rather a strange 【B1】______ to use as money, 【B2】______ in countries where were the food of the people is mainly vegetable, it is often an 【B3】______ necessity. Gakes of salt, stamped to show their【B4】______. were used as money in some countries until recent 【B5】______, and cakes of salt 【B6】______ buy goods in Borneo and parts of Africa.
    Sea shells 【B7】______ as money at some time 【B8】______ another over the greater part of the Old World. These were【B9】______mainly from the beaches of the Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean, and were traded to India and China. In Africa, shells were traded right across the【B10】______from East to West.
    Medal, valued by weight,【B11】______coins in many parts of the world. Iron, in lumps, bars or rings, is still used in many countries【B12】______paper money. It can either be exchanged【B13】______goods, or made into tools, weapons, or ornaments. The early money of China, apart from shells , was of bronze,【B14】______in flat, round pieces with a hole in the middle, called "cash". The【B15】______of these are between three thousand and four thousand years old—older than the earlist coins of the eastern Mediterranean.
    Nowadays, coins and notes have【B16】______nearly all the more picturesque【B17】______of money, and【B18】______in one or two of the more remote countries people still keep it for future use on ceremonial【B19】______such as weddings and funerals, examples of【B20】______money will soon be found only in museums.
【B12】

选项 A、in spite of
B、instead of
C、along with
D、in line with

答案B

解析 考查语篇理解。上一句提到金属出现在硬币前,而此句说在许多国家人们还在使用不同形状的铁而不是纸币,故答案是B.instead of“代替,而不是”。in spite of“尽管”:along with“连同…一起”;in line with“符合,和…一致”,均不符合文意,故排除。
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