(Text 5)
If you want to eat something.you need money.If you want to go somewhere,you need money.You just can't do anything without it anymore.But where did money begin? Well.a long.long time ago people began to exchange things with each other. If someone had a cow and wanted some cloth.he exchanged the cow's milk for it.People could exchange anything that someone else wanted and could use.So people in different places used different kinds of“money”,such as: sheep,fish and knives.The Japanese exchanged rice,the Chinese used tea,and in Ethiopia they used salt.
After many years people began to use gold,and then they made coins.But coins were heavy,and people didn't like to carry them,so they started to use paper money.They say the Chinese first used paper money.Today checks are another kind of paper money—you sign your name and。tell the bank to pay another person.
Of course money can be a terrible problem.If you don't have any,you are really in trouble.But when you do have money.there are people who want to steal it—and some.times kill you because they want or need it so much.So poor people are worried because they can't buy things that they need or often can't pay their bills.And rich people are worried because maybe tomorrow they're going to be poor.