【新编英语教程】（第一册）Unit6 邮票(1/3)

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_1_, printed with an official emblem, design, or monarch's head relating to the country of issue. Stamps, _2_, are affixed to postal matter to indicate that the postage has been prepaid. _3_. Revenue stamps are affixed to deeds and other documents as proof that the government tax or fee has been paid. Similarly, _4_, cigarettes, and other luxuries and require that tax stamps be placed on the packages.
Stamp taxes were used by the Dutch as early as 1624 and by the English after the end of the 17th century, _5_. The famous British Stamp Act of 1765, requiring the American colonists to purchase and affix government stamps to all legal and commercial papers and to pamphlets and newspapers, was a leading cause of the American Revolution.
Since the Civil War the United States has raised revenues by requiring that special internal revenue stamps be affixed to such luxury items as liquor, tobacco, and playing cards.A stamp is a small piece of paper
which are usually gummed on the back
Other kinds of stamps are also used of a variety of official purposes
some states raise money by imposing taxes on liquor
chiefly to finance wars