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• 1All the following were seen as advantages of the postage stamp EXCEPT that .

  A.it had to be purchased by the sender in advance

  B.it increased the cost of mail delivery

  C.it was difficult to affix to letters

  D.is was easy to counterfeit

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• 2The passage mainly discusses .

  A.the increased use of private mail services

  B.the development of a government postal system

  C.a comparison of urban and rural postal services

  D.the history of postage stamps

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• 3The local Indian tribes were reluctant to trade with Jamestown settlers because .

  A.they themselves didn’t have enough to eat

  B.they knew too little about the value of the copper brought by the settlers

  C.they had quite different cultures with the new settlers

  D.they considered the new settlers to be their enemy

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• 4Compared with Roanoke Island inhabitants, Jamestown settlers were luckier because .

  A.there were cypress trees in Virginia

  B.their drought was drier

  C.their drought was shorter

  D.their drought was less severe

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• 5According to Dennis Blanton, the real reason for the failure at Roanoke was .

  A.inexperience

  B.ineptitude

  C.hostile natives

  D.bad climate

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• 6In 1863 the United States government began providing which of the following to mail carriers、

  A.A salary.

  B.Transportation.

  C.Housing.

  D.Free postage stamps.

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• 7The private postal services of the 19th century claimed that they could do which of the following better than government、

  A.Deliver a higher volume of mail.

  B.Deliver mail more cheaply.

  C.Deliver mail faster.

  D.Deliver mail to rural areas.

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• 8A jet plane will usually have its best average rate of speed on its run from .

  A.New York to San Francisco

  B.Los Angeles to New York

  C.Beijing to Singapore

  D.Sydney to Tokyo

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• 9At the top of Jungfrau, which towers 12,000 feet above the town of Interlaken in Switzerland, the temperature is usually .

  A.below freezing

  B.about 42 degrees colder than on the ground

  C.warmer than in Interlaken

  D.about 75 degrees colder than in Interlaken

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• 10Studies in the stratosphere have been made possible by .

  A.meteorologists

  B.jet planes

  C.earth satellites

  D.study of jet streams

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