THE POST OFFICEA. PHONETICSI. CIRCLE THE WORD WHOSE UNDERLINED PART I...

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C. READING * Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

Between the Revolutionary period and the World War I, the United States post office was set out

to improve transportation of the post office mails. From those early days to the present, the post office

has helped develop and subsidize every new mode transportation in the United States. Transportation

has been the most important element in mail delivery. Even when the general public had still suspected

of the security of a new means of transportation, the post office experimented with inventions that

offered potential for moving the mail faster, occasionally suffering embarrassment, ridicule, or even

abuse in the process.

As mail delivery evolved from foot to horseback, stagecoach, steamboat, railroad, automobile, and

airplane, with intermediate and overlapping use of balloons, and helicopters, post office mail contracts

ensured the income necessary to build the great highways, rail lines, and airways that eventually

spanned the continent.

By the turn of the 19

century, the U.S. Post Office had purchased a number of stagecoaches for

operation on the nation’s better post roads – a post road being any road on which the mail travels – and

continued to encourage new designs to improve passenger comfort and carry mail safely.