Lesson 14 Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises
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.


Lesson 14 Part Ⅱ John At The PostOffice
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.



Lesson 14 Part Ⅲ How DidPostage Stamps Come Into Use
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?

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2．Why was the postage rate high at that time?

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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.