How can a single postage stamp be worth $16 800? Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on one inexpensive postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original value. The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the British colony Mauritius , a small island in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer – Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps. Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball was planned at Mauritius ’ Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy
1、A postage stamp’s value to collectors is raised if ( ).
A、there are few others like it
B、 there are no errors on the stamps
C、 a mistake is made in the printing
D、 both A and C
2、The mistake in the locally printed postage stamps was in the ( ).
A、price
B、wording
C、color
D、spelling of postage
3、$16 800 is the collector’s value of ( ).
A、the One Penny Orange – Red
B、 a correctly printed 1847 stamp
C、 the Twopenny Blue
D、 both A and C
4、Which one is implied but not stated?
A、All correctly printed stamps are worthless.
B、Mauritians needed the stamps to send out invitations to a ball.
C、The printer was punished for his mistake.
D、Collectors are constantly looking for stamps with mistakes.
5、The best title for this section is ( )
A、The “Post Paid” Error
B、The Twopenny Blue
C、A London Printer’s Error
D、How Mauritius Became Famous
第1题:
Printing ______ greatly at the beginning of the 11th century.
A: will be developed
B: has been developed
C: is developed
D: was developed
第2题:
A. receive completely free education
B. receive parly free education
C. receive no free education if their families are rich
D. receive no free education at all
第3题:
A. interesting
B. layman
C. sin
D. mistake
第4题:
1.I took your bag_______ mistake.
A.with
B.as
C.by
D.in
第5题:
To persuade people , you must be able to find out
a ( ) for them to do it.
A. method
B. reason
C. mistake
第6题:
Printing ______ greatly at the beginning of the 11th century.
A: has been developed
B: will be developed
C: was developed
D: is developed
第7题:
My gyrocompass______is two degrees east.
A.trouble
B.error
C.wrong
D.Mistake
第8题:
As he had a science degree and varied experience in ()
A. transportation
B. engineering
C. nursing
D. printing
第9题:
The price is $14.90, _________ postage.
A、includes
B、including
C、to include
D、included
第10题:
下面的描述哪些是正确的?
A.STAMP是Systems-TheoreticAccidentModelandProcesses的简称
B.STAMP是美国麻省理工大学Leveson教授2004年提出的
C.STAMP模型以系统理论为基础,将系统安全性视为复杂系统的涌现性
D.STAMP模型采用多层次控制结构建模方法构建安全控制结构模型