Konu: İ am suspecting Longman answer key , correct or not!!! Could u look at too

The Postage Stamp
The postage stamp has been around for only a relatively short period of time . the use of stamps for postage was first proposed in England İn 1837 , when Sir Rowland Hill published a pamphlet entitled " Post Office Reform : ıts ımportance and Practicability " to put forth the ideas that postal rates should not be based on the distance that a letter or package travels but should instead be based on weight of letter or package and that fees for postal services should be collected in advance of delivery , rather than after through the use of postage stamps

According to paragraph 1 , postage stamps were first suggested
a- in the first half of the eighteenth century
b- in the second half of the eighteenth century
c- in the first half of nineteenth century
d- in the second half of the nineteenth century

Actually i didnt only suspect that question , like that question , it has many question on Longman 2. edition Toefl book
i thought maybe it can be wrong answer key

Thank you for your interest

Actually, that is the correct answer. In the second line it states that "stamps for postage were first propsed in England in 1837" (proposed here means suggested which is the key word in the question being asked). In order to determine the century you simply take the year plus one. So 1700 would be the eighteenth century and 1800 would be the nineteenth century. And because 1837 is before 1850 it is technically in the first half of the nineteenth century. However, you shouldn remember that you won't be presented with such questions on the real TOEFL exam as they depend to much on prior knowledge and they are not related to how you understand the English language (the same goes for vocabulary questions in the Longman book which test how much vocabulary you know and not how you understand how vocabulary works).

I hope that this has been useful to you.

Seosamh Jordan
TOEFL instructure

hmm , thank for ur answer , actually , i didnt thnk that