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阅读理解（40分） Passage One The United States has all kinds of lakes, large and small. But most of the fresh water in America is in five large lakes in the northeast and central U.S. These are the Great Lakes :Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario. There is enough water here to cover the U.S. 10 feet deep. Travel in the Great Lakes area is easy because the lakes and many rivers are connected. Water transportation is quicker and cheaper than travel by land. For this reason, many industries such as steel and automobile factories were started around the Grea