TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2008)

　　PART III CLOZE (15 MIN)

　　Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet.

　　Salt, shells or metals are still used as money in out-of-the-way parts of the world today.

　　Salt may seem rather a strange31 to use as money, 32 in countries where the food of the people is mainly vegetable, it is often an 33 necessity. Cakes of salt, stamped to show their 34, were used as money in some countries until recent 35, and cakes of salt 36 buy goods in Borneo and parts of Africa.

　　Sea shells 37 as money at some time 38 another over the greater part of the Old World. These were 39 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 40 from East to West.

　　Metal, valued by weight, 41 coins in many parts of the world. Iron, in lumps, bars or rings, is still used in many countries 42 paper money. It can either be exchanged 43 goods, or made into tools, weapons, or ornaments. The early money of China, apart from shells, was of bronze, 44 in flat, round pieces with a hole in the middle, called "cash". The 45 of these are between three thousand and four thousand years old-older than the earliest coins of the eastern Mediterranean.

　　Nowadays, coins and notes have 46 nearly all the more picturesque 47 of money, and 48 in one or two of the more remote countries people still keep it for future use on ceremonial 49 such as weddings and funerals, examples of 50 money will soon be found only in museums.

　　31. A. object

　　B. article

　　C. substance

　　D. category

　　32. A. but

　　B. and

　　C. so

　　D. even

　　33. A. abstract

　　B. advantageous

　　C. abundant

　　D. absolute

　　34. A. weight

　　B. value

　　C. role

　　D. size

　　35. A. times

　　B. events

　　C. situations

　　D. conditions

　　36. A. even

　　B. also

　　C. still

　　D. never

　　37. A. had been used

　　B. are used

　　C. would be used

　　D. would have been used

　　38. A. and

　　B. but

　　C. yet

　　D. or

　　39. A. collected

　　B. produced

　　C. grown

　　D. raised

　　40. A. city

　　B. district

　　C. communib

　　D. continent

　　41. A. processed

　　B. produced

　　C. preceded

　　D. proceeded

　　42. A. in spite of

　　B. instead of

　　C. along with

　　D. in line with

　　43. A. against

　　B. as

　　C. in

　　D. for

　　44. A. often

　　B. seldom

　　C. really

　　D. much

　　45. A. earlier

　　B. earliest

　　C. better

　　D. best

　　46. A. replaced

　　B. reproduced

　　C. reflected

　　D. recovered

　　47. A. sizes

　　B. shapes

　　C. formats

　　D. forms

　　48. A. while

　　B. although

　　C. because

　　D. if

　　49. A. events

　　B. gatherings

　　C. occasions

　　D. assemblies

　　50. A. original

　　B. primitive

　　C. historical

　　D. crude