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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.
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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.
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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 you'll 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.
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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 needn't 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 sin