阅读理解( 20 题 40 分) When people print a stamp, any error madeon 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 bail was planned at Mauritius's Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copythe design for the stamps. He accidentally inscribed the words “ Post Office ” instead of "PostPaid" 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. 1. Over a century ago,Mauritius ________. 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 2. The mistake on the stamps was made ________. A) in Mauritius B) at Mauritius Government House C) in a post office D) in London 3. The mistake on the locally printed postage stamps was in the ________. A) price B) color C) carelessness D) inscription 4. Stamp collectors have paid $16,800 for ________. A) one Two Penny Blue B) twelve Two Penny Blues C) one One Penny Orange-Red D) fourteen One Penny Orange-Reds 5. A stamp is worth a million and a half times its original value because ________. A) it was misprinted a hundred years ago B) of its rareness and age C) few collectors have it D) it was made in British colonies