HER SKIN IS AS SOFT AS A BABY. A B C D I./ A. THEME

What is money? The pound, the dollar or the franc are actually just (0)

___ a gram or a kilometre. The difference is that you can exchange money

for something (1) ___. A five pound note may buy a book, a huge bag of

sweets, or a (2) ___ of cinema tickets. But the note itself is only a printed (3)

___ of paper which costs almost nothing to make. Thousands of years (4)

___, people didn't have money as we know (5) ___. There were no banks (6)

___ even shops. In those days, Mr. Green the farmer exchanged the corn he

(7) ___ grown for Mr. Hive's money. This was an exchange arranged

between two (8) ___, each of whom had something that the other wanted.

But in time, most societies invented their own "currencies" (9) ___ that

people could exchange more. The different currencies began to join together,

which is why (10) ___ everyone uses a national currency.