A：I want to buy some stamps with different face values .B：Special stamps?A：Yes.B：We have stamps of（　　　　）.A、60fenB、2yuansC、60fensD、3yuan20fen

In 1847 most countries of the world were ______.

A. not yet using postage stamps

B. collecting valuable stamps

C. buying stamps from Neuritis

D. printing their own stamps

The phrase" special sectors" (line l ,paragraph 7) most probably refers to

[ A] energy ,food and housing.

[ B] indexed programs.

[ C] social security and food stamps.

[ D] large corporations and labor settlements.

Tomorrow is my mother's birthday. I want to buy _____for her.

A. anything special

B. something special

C. special something

A、Mauritians needed the stamps to send out invitations to a ball.

B、All correctly printed stamps are worthless.

C、The printer was punished for his mistake.

D、Collectors are constantly looking for stamps with mistakes.

We don’t have ______ fruit in the house.Let me buy ______.

A、any, any

B、any, some

C、a little, any

D、some, any

I hear that you are ______ collecting stamps. Could I have a look?

A: pleased with

B: interested in

C: similar to

D: ready for

The first United States airmail stamp has an interesting story.Printed in 1918, this 24-cent stamp with a blue plane inside rose border became the center of much attention.One hundred of the stamps sold to the public became known as "inverts", for the plane was printed upside down.Singles of these "upside down" airmail stamps are now worth over $ 100,000.

The story of these stamps began on May 14, 1918, the day after they were placed on sale.In Washington D.C., W.T.Robey, a man interested in stamps, decided to buy a sheet of the new stamps and so went to the New York Avenue branch post office in Washington.When the clerk handed him a sheet of the stamps, Robey noted that they were poorly centered.He looked at other sheets and found that none was well centered.The clerk asked Robey to return later in the day when more stamps were expected.

About noon Robey came back, and the same clerk was on duty.He reached for the new sheets and handed one to Robey.The collector's heart stood still as he saw that the sheet which had been offered him had inverted centers.

Excited by his find, Robey shopped other branch post offices for more sheets with inverted centers but found none.Then be told his friend of his discovery, and they, too, looked in the city's post offices - also in vain.

Not being a rich man, Robey decided to cash in on his good fortune.He turned down the first offer of $ 500 from a Washington stamp shop owner and took the sheet to New York.There he planned to show it to a collector, Colonel E.H.R.Green, as well as to stamp dealers.

Colonel Green was out of the city, and no one else wanted to bid on the sheet for fear that Robey's might not be the only upside down sheet.As the news of his great find spread, many people said that other such sheets had been found.These stories proved to be false.

Robey left New York without having made a sale, and stopped in Philadelphia on the way home.There, dealer Eugene Klein arranged to buy the sheet for $ 15,000 and finally did buy it.Within a few days, Klein sold the sheet to Colonel Green, the same collector whom Robey had failed to contact in New York.There is a tale that the Colonel was in Texas at the time, and that Klein phoned him there and sold him the sheet, sight unseen, for $ 20,000! Robey's sheet had cost him $ 24, and his profit was $ 14,976 while Klein gained $ 5,000.

Of the 100 stamps first bought by Mr.Robey, stamp collectors are now able to account for 96.What has happened to the others is not known.When a copy is offered for sale it is a major event in the stamp world.A block of four stamps has been sold for sale it is a major event in the stamp world.A block of four stamps has been sold for as much as $ 500,000.Few people have ever seen a copy.Yet no matter how much this valuable stamp is bought and sold, no owner can match the thrill that W.T.Robey had on that day in 1918 when he made America's luckiest stamp find!

1、This article is about().

A、the first-class stamps eighty years ago

B、revenue stamps in the United States

C、the first United States airmail stamps

D、special delivery stamps

2、These stamps were valuable because().

A、the centers of them were "upside down"

B、they were the wrong color

C、they were off center

D、there were so few of them

3、When Robey told his friends of the find, they().

A、tried to buy his stamps

B、also went to look for such stamps

C、reported Robey to the government

D、none of the above

4、The dealers knew that if there were other sheets like Robey's then ().

A、Robey must be lying

B、there were no perfect ones

C、the stamps were no good

D、Robey's stamps would be worthless

5、Robey's stamps have seen by().

A、many people

B、no one

C、few people

D、everyone

The mistake in the locally printed postage stamps was in the ______.

A. spelling of postage

B. price

C. wording

D. color

I’m going to buy Mary a birthday gilt. Do you have _____in mind?

A. special something

B. special anything

C. anything special

—Do you like collecting stamps?

—________ .

A.No, not like

B.No, not exact

C.No, not really

D.No, nothing

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

A、most of them

B、most of which

C、most of that

D、most of what

Yesterday he sold out all his stamps at ____ he thought was a reasonable price.

A.that

B.which

C.what

D.as

Would you ______ the stamps on to the envelope for me, please?

A、stick

B、suck

C、pick

D、spit