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請依下文回答第 26 題至第 30 題：Robert Spring, a 19th century forger, was so good at his profession that he was able to make his living for 15 years by sellingfalse signatures of famous Americans. Spring was born in England in 1813 and arrived in Philadelphia in 1858 to open abookstore. At first he prospered by selling his small but genuine collection of early U.S. autographs. Discovering his abilityat copying handwriting, he began imitating signatures of George Washington and Ben Franklin and writing them on the titlepages of old books. To lessen the chance of detection, he sent his forgeries to England and Canada for sale and circulation.Forgers have a hard time selling their products. A forger can’t approach a respectable buyer but must deal with people whodon’t have much knowledge in the field. Forgers have many ways to make their work look real. For example, they buy oldbooks to use the aged paper of the title page, and they can treat paper and ink with chemicals.In Spring’s time, right after the Civil War, Britain was still fond of the Southern states, so Spring invented a respectablemaiden lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, the only daughter of General “Stonewall” Jackson. For several years MissFanny’s financial problems forced her to sell a great number of letters and manuscripts belonging to her famous father.Spring had to work very hard to satisfy the demand. All this activity did not prevent Spring from dying in poverty, leavingsharp-eyed experts the difficult task of separating his forgeries from the originals.
26 Why did Spring sell faked autographs in England and Canada?
(A)There was a greater demand there than in America.
(B)There was less chance of being detected there.
(C)Britain was Spring’s birthplace.
(D)The prices were higher in England and Canada.

參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.616438
統計：A(13),B(45),C(8),D(6),E(0)

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