《2025年名校课堂九年级英语上册人教版湖南专版》

六、语法填空。
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Most people today buy things by using different kinds of payments(支付方式)such as coins, paper money, cards or mobile phones. As a result, shopping is more convenient 26. than before.
About 10,000 years ago, people farmed and 27. grew(grow)the food they needed. During that time, people exchanged things among them. They mostly used cows and rice 28. to get(get)things they needed in many different parts of the world.
About 3,000 years ago, people started to use other things as money. Shells from the ocean were 29. widely(wide)traded as money in places like China, Thailand, and some 30. countries(country)in Africa.
It wasn't until about 2,000 years ago that the original(最早的)coins appeared. China was probably the 31. first(one)place to use metal coins. People made 32. them(they)by heating small amounts of metal and then putting 33. a hole in the middle.
But it's not convenient to carry around a lot of heavy coins, 34. so paper money started to be used in China almost 1,000 years ago. Nowadays we use mobile(可移动的)payment to buy what we need. It is much 35. easier(easy)to pay by mobile phones than a lot of coins or paper money.

答案： 26. than 27. grew 28. to get 29. widely 30. countries 31. first 32. them 33. a 34. so 35. easier