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        The postage stamp has been around for only a relatively short period of time. The use of stamps forpostage was first proposed in England in 1837, when Sir Rowland Hill published a pamphlet entitled “PostOffice Reform: Its Importance and Practicability” to put forth two ideas. First, postal rates should not bebased on the distance that a letter or package travels but should instead be based on the weight of the letter orpackage. Second, fees for postal service should be collected in advance of the delivery, rather than after,through the use of postage stamps. The ideas proposed by Hill went into effect in England almostimmediately, and other countries soon followed suit. The first English stamp, which featured a portrait ofthen Queen Victoria, was printed in 1840. This stamp came in sheets that needed to be separated with scissors.It provided enough postage for a letter weighing 14 grams or less to any destination. In 1843, Brazil was thenext nation to produce national postage stamps, and various areas in what is today’s Switzerland alsoproduced postage stamps later in the same year. Postage stamps in five- and ten-cent denominations werefirst approved by the US Congress in 1847, and by 1860, postage stamps were being issued in more than 90countries worldwide.
46 According to the passage, when was the idea of the postage stamp first suggested?
(A) In the first half of the eighteenth century.
(B) In the second half of the eighteenth century.
(C) In the first half of the nineteenth century.
(D) In the second half of the nineteenth century.

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答案：C
難度：困難0.318182
統計：A(10),B(2),C(7),D(0),E(0)

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