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  3. When people print a stamp, any error made on a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on one inexpensive postage

When people print a stamp, any error made on a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on one inexpensive postage

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问题     When people print a stamp, any error made on a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on one inexpensive postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original value.
    More than one hundred years ago in the British colony of Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean, the mistake was made. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer — Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps.
    Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball was planned at Mauritius’ s Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy the design for the stamps. He accidentally inscribed the words "Post Office" instead of "Post Paid" on the several hundred stamps that he printed.
    Today there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left-fourteen One Penny Orange-Reds and twelve Two Penny Blues. Because of the Two Penny Blues’ rareness and age, collectors have paid as much as $ 16,800 for it.
Over a century ago, Mauritius ______.
选项 A、was an independent country
B、was a small island in the Pacific Ocean
C、belonged to India
D、was one of the British colonies
答案D
解析 题干意为“一个世纪以前，毛里求斯______。”根据第二段第一句“(这个错误在一百多年前的毛里求斯—印度洋上的一个小岛—还是不列颠殖民地时就产生了。)”可知答案。
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