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  3. Today we are sure that the mail will be sent every day to our door. But in the early days, no one could be sure about where—or w

Today we are sure that the mail will be sent every day to our door. But in the early days, no one could be sure about where—or w

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问题     Today we are sure that the mail will be sent every day to our door. But in the early days, no one could be sure about where—or when—the mail would arrive.
    There is a stump(树桩) of a big tree in the state of Washington. It was once a "post office". Because people needed a place for the mail carrier(信使) to leave their letters, they found a tree at the cross of roads and cut it down ten feet from the ground. Then they hollowed it out and covered it with something. Inside, they put many boxes. Each box had a family’s name on it. The mail carrier could leave letters there for everyone.
    Even earlier, when there was no post services, people gave their letters to any traveler going in the right direction. Often they gave them to a traveling shoe maker. The traveler might stop in a small hotel and he would leave the letters there. But the letters stayed there until the person to receive them happened to come by and stop at the hotel.
    Today an airmail letter can travel across the world in much less time than that. And you know that your letter will go where you want it to go, and when.
What do we know about the post service in the old days?
选项 A、Hotels offered post service.
B、Letters were sent to the door.
C、When letters would arrive was not clear.
答案C
解析 句意：关于古代的邮政服务，我们了解了哪些?推理题。从文章第一段第二句“But in the early days, no one could be sure about where—or when—the mail would arrive. ”可推出C项符合。而文章第三段虽提到旅行者会将信件存放在旅馆直到收信人碰巧路过取走，但是并没有说旅馆提供邮政服务，故A项不符合文义；B项信件会被送到门口也在文中无法证实。故选C。
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