All of us are familiar with money. All of us have bought one thing or the other with money. Day in day out, we still continue to depend on money. Everybody continues to look for money. Indeed, nobody can exist in the society without money as it is used to PURCHASE man's basic needs. In modern times, the money we spend takes the form of a piece of paper (note) or metal (coin). Money, however, has not been in the form of paper or metal as we know it today. Before the ADVENT of money, people exchanged goods through the system of trade by barter. In this system, if you produced a commodity and you needed another commodity, you had to look for somebody who had the commodity you needed and who also needed the commodity you had. For example, if I had yam and I wanted meat, I had to look for somebody who had meat and wanted yam so that we could exchange. Obviously, it was a highly inconvenient and TEDIOUS way of getting what one needed. Later on in Nigerian history, cowries were used as money. A cowry is the white shell of a small sea creature. To make counting easy, cowries were strung together in twenties . Each bundle of twenty cowries was referred to as a head. People who had large sum of money had them in bags with each bag containing 20,000 cowries. This system of using cowry as a MEDIUM of exchange brought with it the problem of carrying cowries about. Rich people therefore had to employ ABLE-BODIED men to carry money for them. However, metal currency was introduced into Nigeria in the nineteenth century. Copper penny and the silver coins were the most common forms. For a long time in Nigeria, metal currency and cowries were being used simultaneously. Gradually, metal currency replaced cowries for the simple reason that it was more convenient to carry about. For the people in the coastal areas in and around Lagos, the possession of metal currency became a SYMBOL of being civilized.
1. The most successful students are the ------- who do not miss classes.
2. It is a pleasure to welcome you -------- our home.
3. The phones were sold ------- at very cheap rates.
4. Surprisingly, he ------ not punished for violating the law.
5. The cheque was not ------- by the bank
6. In Democratic government, citizens ------- leaders
7. King Medas did not listen to the fairy, ------- she warned him
8. King Medas spent all his time counting gold, -------- he should have spent some time with his daughter.
9. The manager often quarrel with his staff because he goes around with chips on his shoulder. What does this mean?
10. I'm sorry ------ to attend the meeting yesterday.
11. The court ordered the lorry driver to pay for the ------ to my car
13. The thief ran ------luck when the police man running after him caught up with him and knocked him down.
