DepartmentofCollegeEnglishNewVisionCollegeEnglishReading,Writing&TranslationBookⅢDepartmentofCollegeEnglishFinanceandSecuritiesUnitFourUnitFourDepartmentofCollegeEnglishObjectivesObjectivesAfterlearningtheunit,thestudentswillbeableto1.knowaboutfinanceandsecuritiesandtheirimpactonourlife;2.graspthemainideasofTextA,TextBandTextC;3.masterthekeywords,expressionsandusefulsentencepatterns.DepartmentofCollegeEnglishWarm-upWarm-up1.Couldyougivesomenamesofcurrencyofdifferentcountries?2.Whatroledoesmoneyplayinourdailylife?Doesmoneymeaneverything?3.Haveyouexperiencedorreadaboutanyeconomiccrisis?Whatsuggestionsdoyougivetosolveit?DepartmentofCollegeEnglishUnitFourFinanceandUnitFourFinanceandSecuritiesSecuritiesTextTextAATextTextAATheOriginofCurrencyTextBTextBTextBTextBWeLiveina“MoneyEconomy”TextCTextCTextCTextCBankofChinaWritingforPracticalPurposesFurtherStudyDepartmentofCollegeEnglishTextATheOriginofCurrencyPartOne:BackgroundInformationPartFour:ExercisesPartThree:DetailedStudyoftheTextPartTwo:NewWords,PhrasesandExpressionsTextADepartmentofCollegeEnglishTextATheOriginofCurrencyPartOneBackgroundInformation(1)1.FunctionsofCurrencyCurrencyusuallyhasthreefunctions.Firstlyit’samediumofexchange（交换媒介），soit’ssomecommoditywhichfacilitatestheexchangeofgoodsandservices.Itisalsoaunitofaccount（计算单位），whichmeansthatweusemoneytoreckonpricesandreckonvaluesforcomparisonsbetweengoodsandservicesorovertime.Andthirdly，moneyisastoreofvalue（价值储存手段）.Itisanasset.It’ssomethingthatwecanusetostorevalueawaytobebroughtbackatalaterpointintime.Sowecannotconsumetoday，wecanholdmoneyinsteadandtransferthatconsumptionpowertosomepointinthefuture.DepartmentofCollegeEnglishTextATheOriginofCurrencyPartOneBackgroundInformation(2)2.MarcoPoloMarcoPolowasbornin1254anddiedonJanuary8,1324.HewasamerchantfromtheVenetianRepublic（威尼斯共和国）andCroatia（克罗地亚）whowroteIlMilione（《百万》在中国、日本等地被译为《马可•波罗游记》、《东方见闻录》等）.3.GenghisKhan（成吉思汗）GenghisKhanwasbornbetween1155and1167(thedateisuncertain)somewherenearLikeBaikal(贝加尔)inMongolia.Althoughofnobleblood,heinheriteddifficultcircumstancesinafractiousandviolentMongolia.Nevertheless,hewasabletounitetheMongoltribesunderhiscommand,beingproclaimed"GenghisKhan,"or"UniversalRuler"in1206.DepartmentofCollegeEnglishTextATheOriginofCurrencyPartOneBackgroundInformation(3)StrikingoutfromthetraditionalMongolhomelandshedefeatedtheChinesestatesofXia（大夏帝国）andconqueredmuchoftheJinEmpire（金国）.Hethenwentwest,demolishingthePersian（波斯）stateofKhwarizm（花刺子模）.HisgeneralspushedMongolianpowertoNovgorod（诺夫哥罗德）inRussia.Genghisdiedin1227.4.AmericanDollarIntheAmericancolonies,therewasnostandardcurrency.ThecointhatwasinwidestusewastheSpanishPeso,alsoknownalsoas“PiecesofEight”(八片币)becauseitcouldbedividedintoeightpie-likepieces.DepartmentofCollegeEnglishTextATheOriginofCurrencyPartOneBackgroundInformation(4)TheEnglishcolonistsinformallyassignedthenamedollartothiscoin.In1785,whentheContinentalCongress（美洲殖民地大会）establishedU.S.currency,theyadopted“dollar”asnameforthestandardunitofcurrency,atthesuggestionofGovernorMorris（毛里求斯总督）andThomasJefferson,becausethetermwaswidelyknownandwasnotassociatedwithanyformofofficialEnglishcurrency.TheU.S.wasthefirstnationtoadoptanofficialcurrencynamed“dollar”.In1797,theBa...
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