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Today we use numbers very often. But have you ever thought about numbers?

We think that counting is easy. But it was not easy long ago. People didn’t know how to count. When they had to count their cows and horses they used their names.

When people first began to count they did not use number names like “one” “two” and “three”. Sometime they used short sticks. But very often they used their fingers.

“Ten” has become an important number because we have ten fingers. In many languages of today people use ten to make all numbers from 11 to 99. “Thirteen” is short for “three and ten” “twenty” for “two tens” and so on.

To show numbers above ten number names are more useful than fingers. We can only count up to ten with our fingers. We can hold up seven fingers and show that there are 365 days in a year.

Number names are very useful but some people still have names for numbers above three or four. They use “many” for those numbers.

(      ) 1. Counting was difficult long ago.

(      ) 2. When people first began to count they used number names.

(      ) 3. Long ago people used ten to make all the numbers from 11 to 99 but we do not.

(      ) 4. “Twenty” came from “two tens”.

(      ) 5. Fingers are more useful than number names to show numbers above ten.

Answer 1

1A  2B  3B  4A  5B