Read the text, give it a name and make questions to which the sentences after the text can be answers. Stamp collecting, or philately, has been a hobby of millions of peopl for about 100 years. Stamp collecting can be a very educational hobby Every picture on a stamp was selected for some particular reason. Each can give you some information about the country from which it came. The most valuable stamps, of course, are the rare ones. Usually they are connected with some events. For example, in certain United States post offices in 1847 there was a shortage of five-cent The stamps. postmasters just cut ten-cent stamps in half, each part five cents paying postage. Today these halves cost several hundred dollars each. Mistakes occur in printing stamps, and such mistakes make the stamp even more valuable. In 1918, the first United airmail stamps went States on sale. Each of them cost 24 cents. In office the clerk sold a certain post them at the regular price. what he did not notice was that on some of them the airplane was printed upside down. Later, each of those stamps cost $ 2,000! 1. ..-It is also called philately. 2. ..-For about 100 years. 3. ..-It can give you information about the country from which it came. 4. ..-The rare ones. 5. ..-Because in 1847 there was a shortage of five-cent stamps in certain US post offices. 6. ..-Mistakes in printing. 7. ..-Beacause the airplane on them was printed upside down.