2021年下半年自考英语二作文范文（四）

WHAT IS MONEY?

Money is something you’ve been familiar with throughout your life. You regularly use money to measure the value of things you own. You also have some of it in your pockets & in bank accounts. Money serves a number of functions as following:

Firstly, as a generally accepted medium of exchange, money rules out the need for barter, the direct exchange of one item for another;

Secondly, money provides a unit of account that serves as a standard to measure value, e.g., the concept of GNP will be useless without a standard of value such as the dollar.

Thirdly, money can also serve as store of value that can be quickly converted to goods & services. Namely, money is completely liquid, and it can immediately be converted to goods &services without any inconvenience or cost