DOLLAR
On
15 January 1520, the Czech Kingdom
of Bohemia
began minting coins from silver mined locally in Joachimsthal
(Czech Jáchymov) and marked on reverse with the Czech lion. The
coins were called joachimsthaler,
which became shortened in common usage to thaler
or taler. The German name "Joachimsthal" literally means
"Joachim's valley" or "Joachim's dale".
Dollar
is also the name of a small town in Scotland with a population of
2,860. The name of the town has nothing to do with the name of the
currency.
Dollar
(often represented by the dollar
sign $)
is the name of more than twenty currencies,
including (ordered by population) those of the United
States, Canada,
Australia,
Taiwan,
Hong
Kong, Singapore,
New
Zealand, Liberia,
Jamaica
and Namibia.
The U.S. dollar is the official currency of East
Timor, Ecuador,
El
Salvador, Federated
States of Micronesia, Marshall
Islands, Palau,
the Caribbean
Netherlands, and for banknotes, Panama.
Generally, one dollar is divided into one hundred cents.
TEXT
COMPREHENSION
05-In “Dollar is the
name of a small
town in Scotland”, the underlined word means:
01-Check the correct sentence according to the text:
a)Dollar is the name of twenty currencies
b)The U.S. Dollar is the official currency of Canada
c)Dollar is a huge city in Scotland
d)Dollar is the currency of the Czech Republic
e)Joachimsthal lies in the Czech Republic
02-The word “dale” means:
a)money b)coin c)valley
d)country e)dollar
03-Joachimsthal is a _____________________.
a)city b)river c)mountain
d)state e)square
04-The U.S. Dollar is the official currency of
_________________.
a)Ecuador b)Namibia c)Jamaica
d)Liberia e)Taiwan
a)large b)wide
c)little d)narrow e)poor
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