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第二部分 阅读理解 （2010.9） Passage 1: Clowns（小丑）like to make people laugh. They paint their faces and put on funny noses. Sometimes they put on a sad face but most of the time they put on a happy face. They also wear funny clothes. 答案：DDACD Passage 2: Many people now keep animals as pets. Numerous people have cats and dogs in their houses. Other people like fish, caged birds, tortoises and even snakes, monkeys or lions. 答案：DDACC Passage 3: My secret for staying young is simple. Put all attention to the part of your brain and keep it young and growing. Keep your mind awake and youll stay young all over. These are exciting times. 答案：CADDC Passage 4: Mrs. Jones telephone number was 3463, and the number of the cinema in her town was 3464, so people often made a mistake when they wanted the cinema. 答案：DCBAB Passage 5: The word horsepower was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt had made the world first widely used steam engine. He had no way of telling people exactly how powerful it was, for at that time there were no units for measuring power. 答案：CDDAB Passage 6: No one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon and part of it taken out. Today, however, we neednt worry about feeling pain during the operation. The sick person falls into a kind of sleep, and when he awakes, the operation is finished. But these happy conditions are fairly new. It is not many years since a man who had to have operation felt all its pain. 答案：BCBCA Passage 7： Nancy and Peter McCall like sports. In the summer they swim and in the winter they ski. They are planning ski trip for this weekend, but they dont know about the weather. Its 7:30 now, and they are listening to the weather report on the radio. The weatherman is giving the weather forecast for the weekend. 答案：ACDCA Passage 8： Americans, like many people elsewhere in the world, like to invite friends to their homes for an evening of food, drink and conversation. 答案：DBACC Passage 9： A man got into a train an