语音听力
Directions: In this section, you will hear a short passage. At the end of the passage, you will hear 4 questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A) , B) , C) and D) .
Japanese people, who never miss a chance to be photographed, were lining up to get their picture on a postage stamp. Vanity stamps that feature personal photographs went on sale for the first time in Japan as part of an international postage stamp exhibition. The customer's photo is taken with a digital camera and then printed on stamp sheets, a process that takes about five minutes. Sold in a sheet of 10 stamps for $ 8.80, little more than the cost of lunch in Tokyo, each stamp features a different scene from a traditional culture—along with the photo. These stamps can be used normally to mail a letter, and postal officials hope they will help promote interests in letter-writing in the Internet Age. "Certainly e-mail is an useful method of communication, but letters are fun in a different way," said an official in the Posts Ministry, "we want to show young people that letters can be fun too."
Questions:
1. How much does every stamp cost?(B)
2. What are the usages of these vanity stamps?(A)
3. Why does Japan print vanity stamps?(D)
4. Where did the vanity stamps firstly go on sale?(D)
