UNIT ONE 1
CONTENTS 1
Text:What Is a Bank? 16
Supplementary Material:A Children s Bankin AmericaUNIT TWO 16
Text:What Is a Central 33
Bank? 33
Supplementary Material:The central Bank inBritain and theU.S.A.UNIT THREE 33
Text:The Exchange of 47
Currencies 47
Supplementary Material:The Stock MarketUNIT FOUR 47
Text:The Use of Com- 65
puters 65
Supplementary Material:Shop with theOK CumputerUNIT FIVE 65
Supplementary Material:A Definition ofMoneyUNIT SIX 82
Text:The History of 82
Money 82
Text: Basic Rloes and Ser- 106
vices of a Bank 106
Supplementary Material:Banks and TheirNew RoleUNIT SEVEN 106
Text:Credit Cards 125
Supplementary Material:The Credit CardEconomyUNIT EIGHT 125
Text:Current Accounts 148
Supplementary Material:Funny MoneyUNIT NINE 148
Text:Deposit Account 166
Supplementary Material:Main Types of BankAccountin the UKUNIT TEN 166
Text:Business Letters Ⅰ 186
Supplementary Material: Business Letters ⅡUNIT ELEVEN 186
Supplementary Material:Dialogues:ChangingYuan toDollarsUNIT TWELVE 208
Operations 208
Text:Dialogues:Banking 208
Text:Buying on the 224
Installment Plan 224
Supplementary Material:Installment Buying inthe U.S.UNIT THIRTEEN 224
Text:A Bourgeols 241
Economist s 241
Opinion on the 241
Poverty Problem 241
Supplementary Material:What Can Be Doneabout Poverty?UNIT FOURTEEN 241
Text:Inflation Tears the 259
Society Apart 259
Supplementary Material:How Do People BattleInflation?UNIT FIFTEEN 259
Supplementary Material:The Standard of LivingUNIT SIXTEEN 275
Economy”(Ⅰ) 275
Text:WeLivea“Money 275
Text:We Live in a“Money 291
Economy”(Ⅱ) 291
Supplementary Material:Why Does Food CostSo Much?UNIT SEVENTEEN 291
Test:The World Bank 308
Supplementary Material:International Mon-etary Fund(IMF)UNIT EIGHTEEN 308
Text:the Money in a Bank 323
Supplementary Material:The Ways BanksEmploy Their FundsUNIT NINETEEN 323
Text:Foreign Exchange 337
(Part One) 337
Supplementary Material:What Is ForeignExchange?UNIT TWENTY 337
Text:Foreign Exchange 351
(Part Two) 351
Supplementary Material:Foreign ExchangeRate and ForeignExchange MarketAPPENDIX:Glossary 351