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One of the most exotic kinds of money in the world is a belt two inches wide and thirty feet long fashioned of glue fibers, and

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问题     One of the most exotic kinds of money in the world is a belt two inches wide and thirty feet long fashioned of glue fibers, and the downy red feathers of a tropical forest bird. This primitive currency is the basis of a complex monetary and trading system in the Santa Cruz Islands of the southwest Pacific.
    Improbable as it is, the red-feather currency fits the most rigorous definition of the term money. It serves as a means of accumulating wealth and as a universal medium of exchange in the highly diversified commerce of the islands. It is fully interchangeable, each belt having a precisely negotiable value in terms of other belts. Moreover, it has maintained its economic integrity against the recent invasion of the Australian pound—it is still the only acceptable specie for the purchase of brides, fine pigs, and certain forms of labor.
    The use of money is not limited to high civilizations; actually many primitive peoples have devised moneys of their own. Primitive monetary systems require the same balance of supply and demand that confronts the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve System; the value of the money must be carefully regulated. Lacking devices to regulate currency demand artificially, primitive societies must rely on natural or social circumstances. Iii the red-feather currency system, the supply of new money is regulated by the availability of red feathers and by the output of the people who traditionally make the money. Old currency goes out of circulation, because it loses value as its color fades.
选项 A、most universal types of money
B、earliest forms of money
C、most unusual forms of money
D、most complex money systems
答案C
解析 文章在一开头就介绍说有一种非常奇特的(exotic)钱币仍在被使用着。A项说它是最通用的货币当然与文章内容不符。B、D两项文章中没有提到。
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