2014年5月托福考试模拟试题及答案(第八套)_第9页

　　Where would you like to go on your next vacation. choose a place and explain why you would like to go there. Please include specific details and examples in your explanation.

　　On my next vacation, I would really like to go to France. I've never been in western Europe, but among all the countries of the western Europe I would really like to visit France because it's a country of great culture with a lot history called heritage and being a Russian myself, er, we had French language as a second language, er, second common language for all aristocracy for more than two centuries. When I'm in France I would really like to see the river Thames. I would like to visit the Louvre and their galleries. I would like to walk in their old cities and to see...

　　Narrator

　　Now listen to a part of a talk in an economics class.

　　Question

　　Important points(答题要点)

　　Under the broad definition, money is anything that can be used as payment (as a medium of exchange), e.g., coins/bills and barter. If you take a taxi ride, you could use vegetables as payment for the cab ride. Under a narrower definition, money is anything that must be accepted as payment (legal tender). In the United States, coins and bills are legal tender. A taxi driver must accept coins and bills as payment for the taxi ride. Vegetables and credit cards are not legal tender in the United States, so the taxi driver does not have to accept these as payment.