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

[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 stamp
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

[单项选择]The two tourists __________I shared the room were both British.
A. whom
B. who
C. in which
D. with whom

[单项选择]The child was playing on the floor with his collection of ______ farm animals.


A. infinitesimal
B. microscopic
C. trivial
D. miniature

[单项选择]How much did the stamp of Elvis Presley cost
A. 29 cents.
B. 32 cents.
C. 35 cents.

[单项选择]I need one more stamp before my collection （　）
A. has completed
B. completes
C. has been completed
D. is completed

[单项选择]The Stamp Act______.


A. was an act about selling stamps at prices from a few cents to almost a dollar
B. required that all commercial and legal documents in America have stamps on them
C. was the main cause of the American Revolution
D. chiefly affected business people who felt it would ruin their businesses

[单项选择]The work to stamp out smallpox was made more difficult by______.

[单项选择]If border officials do not stamp the passport, what should a traveler do


A. Request that it be stamped as soon as possible.
B. Refrain from entering the country.
C. Go to the embassy.
D. Get help at the hotel.