Between the Revolutionary period and the World War I

Read the passage, then choose the one best answer.

Between the Revolutionary period and the World War I, the United States post office was set out to improve transportation of the post office mails. From those early days to the present, the post office has helped develop and subsidize every new mode of transportation in the United States. Transportation has been the most important element in mail delivery. Even when the general public had still suspected of the security of a now means of transportation, the post office experimented with inventions that, offered potential for moving the mail faster, occasionally suffering embarrassment., ridicule, or even abuse in the process. As mail delivery evolved from foot to horseback, stagecoach, steamboat, railroad, automobile, and airplane, with intermediate and overlapping use of balloons, and helicopters, post office mail contracts ensured the income necessary to build the great highways, rail lines, and airways that eventually spanned the continent. By the turn of the 19th century, the U.S. Post Office had purchased a number of stagecoaches for operation on the nation’s better post roads - a post road being any road on which the mail travels - and continued to encourage new designs to improve passenger comfort and carry mail more safely.

Question 1. The passage is about ________.

A. the Post Office in the Revolutionary period 

B. transportation of the Post Office in the US 

C. the Post Office in the World War I

D. transportation and public ideas

Question 2. According to the passage, the main purpose of the Post Office is ____.

A. to deliver mail as safely and fast as possible 

B. to develop transportation

C. to subsidize every new mode of transportation

D. to apply new mean of transportation

Question 3. Which means of transportation used in the Post Office is NOT referred in the passage?

A. train 

B. car 

C. plane 

D. motorcycle

Question 4. The Post Office ________.

A. has never used helicopters in delivery

B. makes no contribution to build roads

C. contributes income to build highways, railroads, and airways

D. has never been the first to use a new means of transportation

Question 5. Any road on which the mail travels is called________.

A. motorway 

B. highway 

C. national road 

D. post road

Đáp án

Question 1. B

Đoạn văn này nói về việc vận chuyển của Bưu điện ở Hoa Kỳ. 

Question 2. A

Dẫn chứng: Transportation has been the most important element in mail delivery.... the post office experimented with inventions that, offered potential for moving the mail faster

Question 3. D

Trong đoạn văn, phương tiện vận chuyển nào không được đề cập? Đoạn văn không nhắc đến việc sử dụng xe máy (motorcycle)

Question 4. C

Dẫn chứng: post office mail contracts ensured the income necessary to build the great highways, rail lines, and airways that eventually spanned the continent.

Question 5. D

Con đường nào mà thư được gửi qua được gọi là gì? Đoạn văn nói rằng "a post road being any road on which the mail travels", nghĩa là "con đường thư gửi qua được gọi là post road", do đó đáp án là D.