初中英语知识型阅读理解（信件的投递过程）

     The post office has plenty of work to do.It landles(处理)thousands of letters every day.Let's follow a letter all the way across America.

     Julie lives in New York.She wrote a letter to Dave.Dave lives in Oregon(俄勒冈，美国州名).Julie put the letter in the mailbox on Monday night.on Tuesday morning a truck stopped at the mailbox.The mail carrier put the letters into a large bag and took the bag to a post office in New York.

     On Tuesday afternoon the letters were sorted(分类).Zip Codes were used to sort the mail.A machine picked up a letter and held it.A worker read the Zip codes.Then the worker pushed five buttons on anotyer machine.The worker had only one second to do this.After the worker pushed the buttons,the machine put the letter in a box.By Tuesday night the box was on a truck.The truck went to the airport.An airplane took off for Oregon on Wednesday morning.Julie's letter went on the airplane.

      By noon the letters were in an airport in Oregon.Mail trucks then took them to post offices.One of these was in Dave's town.On Wednesday night people in Dave's town sorted the letters by street name.

      On Thursday morning the mail carrier for Main Street picked up her pile(堆) of letters.She sorted all of them by street address before delivering(递送).The people at 1 Main Street got their mail first.Dave lived at 221 Main Street. He got his letter before lunch.

 1 Where did Julie's letter travel first?

     a To a post office in New York

     b On a truck that went to the airport

     c To a post office in Oregon

     d On the airport for Oregon

2  What does the underlined word"Zip codes"mean in Chinese?

   a   密码          b   电话号码       c   邮政编码    d   身份证号码

3 Why do we use Zip codes?

  a They were uesd to sort the mail      b They were used to post the mail

  c They were used to read the mail     d They were used to write the mail

4 How long did the worker spend in pushing five buttons on another machine?

  a Ten minutes      b Two minutes

  c One second      d An hour

5 The title of the passage is __________

   a How a Letter is written

   b How Mail is Delivered

   c How a Letter Gets to the Airport

   d How a Machine Picks up Letters

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