【全国百强校word】山西省大同市第一中学2016-2017学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题（有答案）

第Ⅰ卷 客观卷(共60分) 第一部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分40分) 第一节 (共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分) A Can you imagine that a small stamp should be worth $16,800? Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on a two-penny stamp has made it worth a million and a half times its face value. Maybe you think it impossible. But it is true. And this is how it happened. The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the former British colony(殖民地)of Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 and order for stamps was sent to London. Mauritius was about to become the fourth country in the world to put out stamps. Before the order was filled and the stamps arrived from England, a big dance was planned by the commander-in-chief of all the armed forces on the island. The dance would be held in his house and letters of invitation would be sent to all the important people in Mauritius. Stamps were badly needed to post the letters. Therefore, an islander, who was a good printer