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

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• 1The 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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• 2The 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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• 3Compared 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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• 4According 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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• 5Which of the following statements is TRUE、

  A.The first settlers of Roanoke Island nearly abandoned their colony.

  B.Unlike the Roanoke Island settlers, the Jamestown settlers met with serious starvation

  C.The Jamestown settlers were the first English settlers in North America.

  D.Few people knew what had happened to the Roanoke Island settlers.

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• 6The author mentions the city of Philadelphia (par

  A.2) because .A.it was the site of the first post office in the United Stated

  B.its postal service was inadequate for its population

  C.it was the largest city in the United States in 1847

  D.it was commemorated by the first United States postage stamp

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• 7In 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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• 8The 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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• 9A 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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• 10At 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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