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Vocabulary

Put the right word in the blanks. The sentences are from the text.
crossed received postage glue prepaid members international mail stamp
delivered immediately accept

1. When people ______________ letters they didn’t have to pay anything.

2. Before the invention of the ______________ ______________,it was difficult to send a

letter to another country.

3. The post office ______________ the letter.

4. Each country in the UPS agreed to accept letters with prepaid postage from the other
______________.

5. If a letter ______________ several countries, the problem was worse.

6. Postage stamps became popular in Great Britain ______________.

7. Some countries did not want to ______________ letters with stamps from other countries.

8. The letters were ______________.

9. There were still problems with international ______________.

10. Rowland Hill, a British teacher, had the idea of a postage stamp with ______________ on
the back.