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Lesson 14
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Lesson 14
Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises
A．Sentence Structure
Drill 1
1．Where?________________________________________
2．Whom?________________________________________
3．How long?______________________________________
4．Why?__________________________________________
5．How much?_____________________________________
6．From whom?____________________________________
7．How many?______________________________________
8．What?__________________________________________
9．How? __________________________________________
Drill 2
1．_______________________________________________
2．_______________________________________________
3．_______________________________________________
4．_______________________________________________
5．_______________________________________________
Score:___
B．Difficult Sentences
1．____to Venezuela will take _______________
2．____, post offices throughout England ______"One Penny?black stamps and"Two Pence?bluc stamps.
Part Ⅱ John At The Post Office
Exercises:
1．____ The airmail rate to Venezuela is 50 cents a half ounce.
2．____ It usually takes two or three days for a letter to get to Venezuela by air.
3．____ It may take three to four weeks for a letter to get to the interior of the country by air.
4．____ Regular mail to Venezuela goes by boat.
5．____ Regular mail to Venezuela takes a longer time, because the sailings are irregular.
Part Ⅲ How Did Postage Stamps Come Into Use
Exercises:
Ⅰ．
1．Why were people unhappy to pay postage for letters in the early nineteenth century?
___________________________________________________
2．Why was the postage rate high at that time?
___________________________________________________
Ⅱ．
Rowland Hill, a schoolmaster in England, was the first to____ forward a proposal to____ stamps. He thought it would be much easier for people to use stamps to____ postage. They could ____ to the nearby post office to____ stamps and put them on envelopes before they____ the letters. The post office could simply____ seals on the stamps so that people could not use the stamps again. In this way, the post office did not need to send postmen to____ postage. It only needed to send fewer postmen to____ letters. That was a good idea and the government finally____ it.
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