Unit 10课时跟踪练(一) Warm up & Lesson 1 - Pre-reading

　　Ⅰ.阅读理解

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　　Money is all surrounding us. Every day, we see it, use it, and it is one the tip of our tongue. Did you ever stop to consider where the money you carry around every day comes from?

　　Making new money is a very unique job and no easy task. It has up to 65 steps. When the money in use gets dirty and worn out, it will be replaced with new money. The old money is taken from banks and brought to places where it is destroyed. Usually, the old money is burned. The burned money is replaced by new paper money.

　　While old money is being replaced, new money is being printed in a place called a mint (铸币厂). Large sheets of paper are printed with many pictures of some currency (流通货币). These large sheets are cut into individual bills. The individual bills are then put together in big stacks and then sent to banks.

　　Sometimes the mint will make a new bill with a new picture (photos of statesmen and places of interest are favoured) or a new colour. It is not easy for the government to make a new bill. It takes a long time, and there are many steps to go through before a new bill can be sent to banks. First, people in the government decide that a new kind of bill is needed. Then, they ask an artist to design the new bill. A different artist cuts the new picture into a soft piece of metal called a die. The dies are made and put onto large printing machines. Then, very special paper is used, which no one but the mint can have. Along with this special paper, the mint also prints currency using special colours. After the dies print the new currency onto the paper, the bills are cut, stacked，and sent off to the banks.

　　1．From the text we know that ________.

　　A．banks make new money

　　B．it takes 65 procedures to make new money

　　C．mints decide what kind of bill is needed

　　D．old money that is not used is forever stored in a special place

　　解析：选B　细节理解题。由第二段中的"It has up to 65 steps."可知B项正确。

　　2．We can infer from the text that a die is ________.

　　A．something for dead people

　　B．a special machine that prints the money

C．a special piece of paper that the money is made from