Read the following passage and fill in the blank spaces with the suitable words

VII. Read the following passage and fill in the blank spaces with the suitable words.

      The first stamp in (1)                      world was an English stamp. It was made (2)            1840. Before that time people paid money to the postman (3)                 every letter they received and the postman didn’t give letters to anybody (4)               didn’t pay him.

      An English teacher (5)                   name is Rowland Hill thought much about it. One day he said that people who wrote the letters must (6)                         for them and not the (7)          who got the letters. He spoke (8)              it to people in the government.

      Soon all the (9)                   began to sell little pieces of paper (10)           a stamp on them.