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[单项选择] One of the most exotic kinds of money in the world is a belt two inches wide and thirty feet long fashioned of glue fibers, and the downy red feathers of a tropical forest bird. This primitive currency is the basis of a complex monetary and trading system in the Santa Cruz Islands of the southwest Pacific.
Improbable as it is, the red-feather currency fits the most rigorous definition of the term money. It serves as a means of accumulating wealth and as a universal medium of exchange in the highly diversified commerce of the islands. It is fully interchangeable, each belt having a precisely negotiable value in terms of other belts. Moreover, it has maintained its economic integrity against the recent invasion of the Australian pound-it is still the only acceptable specie for the purchase of brides, fine pigs, and certain forms of labor.
The use of money is not limited to high civilizations; actually many primitive peoples have devised moneys of their own. Primitive moneta
A. most universal types of money
B. earliest forms of money
C. most unusual forms of money
D. most complex money systems
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00 simplest level, profit means making more money than you spend on. Many ON
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43 so that you
