[单项选择]The two friends shared a ______ interest in stamp collecting.
A. common
B. many
C. popular
D. usual

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Passage Two 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 in expensive’ 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 of Mauritius, a small is land in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer, and Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps. Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball (舞会) was planned at Mauritius’ Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy the de sign for the stamps. He accidentally inscribed the words "Post Office" instead of "Post Paid" on the sever al hundred stamps that he printed. Today there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left--fourteen "One Penny Orange-
A. The "Post Paid" Error
B. The Two Penny Blue
C. A Rare Stamp
D. How Mauritius Became Famous

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Passage Two 2 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 in expensive’ 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 of Mauritius, a small is land in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer, and Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps. Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball (舞会) was planned at Mauritius’ Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy the de sign for the stamps. He accidentally inscribed the words "Post Office" instead of "Post Paid" on the sever al hundred stamps that he printed. Today there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left--fourteen "One Penny Orang
A. spelling of postage
B. price
C. wording
D. color

[单项选择]Do you believe these two intimate friends used to be enemies
A. bearable
B. internal
C. close
D. believable

[单项选择]Linda has two foreign friends. One of them is from England, ______ is from Korea.

[单项选择]Han Meimei ______ two American friends.

[单项选择]The two friends read the newspaper ______.
A. in a hurry
B. with great interest
C. to pass the time
D. to look at the pictures

[单项选择]His attempts to ______ the two friends failed bemuse they had complete faith in each other.
A. alienate
B. appreciate
C. align
D. alarm

[单项选择]The two friends talked about persons ______ they could remember at college.
A. who
B. that
C. what
D. which

[单项选择]The two strangers talked as if they ______ friends for years.
A. should be
B. would be
C. have been
D. }lad been

[单项选择]I have two friends but ______ of them likes to go fishing with me.
A. none
B. neither
C. both
D. either

[单项选择]No one, except his two best friends, ______ where he is.
A. know
B. knows
C. to know
D. knowing