It wasn't until the 1500s that a wellorganized postal system appeared again in Europe.One family gained the right to deliver mail for the Holy Roman Empire and arts of the Spain.This family continued to carry mail,both government and private,throughout Europe for almost 300 years.However,governmentcontrolled postal systems finally took over private postal businesses,and by the 1700s government ownership of most postal systems in Europe was an accepted fact of life.These early government systems remained quite expensive public use until 1840 when Roland Hill suggested lowering postal rates in order to encourage more people to use the system.Soon after that many other countries took up his idea.
1.The Egyptian pharaohs sent many of their messages by .
A.boats
B.fire
C.horses
D.runners
解析:细节理解题。从第一段第二句的“...the pharaohs frequently needed to send messages up and down the Nile River...”可知法老王用船送信,故选A。
答案:A
2.What was different about the postal system used by Kublai Khan?
A.It had more horses along the delivering lines.
B.The roads were not wide enough for the delivering horses to pass through.
C.The delivering stations were too further apart between one another.
D.His system worked in quite the different basic way as the Roman system.
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