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商取引
受動態 (第4文型の受動態/群動詞の受動態
UNIT 4
Reading
Track 18-19
貨幣はどこから生まれ、私たちの生活の中でどんな役割を果たしているのでしょうか。
Do you know what money is? It can be anything that enough people can agree on
as a means of exchange. For example, rice can be money if many of the people in your
town are willing to accept it as money. But when you are given rice by your
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*employer and try to use it as money in other towns, you may get in trouble.
Before money was invented,
A. This way of exchanging *goods or services
is called *barter. In a barter, one person must have something to exchange that the
other wants.
Many thousand years ago, B Later, it was cast into small, usually round,
coins to make trading easier. The first coins were probably made in *Anatolia, or
10_ *Asia Minor, during the 7th century B.C. As the Greek and Roman civilizations began
accepting coins as money, the rest of the world went along.
C
in the 13th century. The concept of paper money was not accepted by
Western countries until the early 18th century. The early paper money issued in the
West was not successful. Their paper money was easily destroyed because of its poor
15 quality. So, merchants would not accept it. Only in the 20th century did it finally
stand on its own.
Note
Today, as new technologies have changed our lives,
many transactions are
carried out on the Internet. In such trading, e-money or electronic money is
used. E-money is the money that exists only in banking computer systems and has no
20 physical form. Once it's stored on your devices, you can pay at restaurants and stores.
Before long, people may carry ( @ ) paper money ( 6 ) coins.
(294 words)
* employer 雇い主 goods. serviceサービス barter
Anatolia アナトリア 〔トルコ共和国のアジア側の半島部 ]
Asia Minor 小アジア 〔黒海, 地中海, エーゲ海に囲まれたアジア最西部の地域 ]
Note
transaction EX31
業務 取引などを相手 〈人〉 と 「行う」 「処理する」ことを意味す
る transactの名詞形。 英語では 「商取引｣のことをcommercial
transaction, またはbusiness transaction という。
JSSUHTU
