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阅读理解;根据短文内容,选择最佳答案Todayweusenumbersveryoften.Buthaveyoueverthoughtaboutnumbers?Wethinkthatcountingiseasy.Butitwasnoteasylongago.Peopledidn’tknowhowtocount.Whentheyhadt

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Todayweusenumbersveryoften.Buthaveyoueverthoughtaboutnumbers?

Wethinkthatcountingiseasy.Butitwasnoteasylongago.Peopledidn’tknowhowtocount.Whentheyhadtocounttheircowsandhorsestheyusedtheirnames.

Whenpeoplefirstbegantocounttheydidnotusenumbernameslike“one”“two”and“three”.Sometimetheyusedshortsticks.Butveryoftentheyusedtheirfingers.

“Ten”hasbecomeanimportantnumberbecausewehavetenfingers.Inmanylanguagesoftodaypeopleusetentomakeallnumbersfrom11to99.“Thirteen”isshortfor“threeandten”“twenty”for“twotens”andsoon.

Toshownumbersabovetennumbernamesaremoreusefulthanfingers.Wecanonlycountuptotenwithourfingers.Wecanholdupsevenfingersandshowthatthereare365daysinayear.

Numbernamesareveryusefulbutsomepeoplestillhavenamesfornumbersabovethreeorfour.Theyuse“many”forthosenumbers.

( )1.Countingwasdifficultlongago.

( )2.Whenpeoplefirstbegantocounttheyusednumbernames.

( )3.Longagopeopleusedtentomakeallthenumbersfrom11to99butwedonot.

( )4.“Twenty”camefrom“twotens”.

( )5.Fingersaremoreusefulthannumbernamestoshownumbersaboveten.

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  1A 2B 3B 4A 5B