第二部分:阅读理解(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共12小题，每小题2分，满分24分)
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Tom was a clever boy, but his parents were poor, so he had to work in his spare time and during his holidays to pay for his education. In spite of this, he managed to get to university, but it was so expensive to study there that during the holiday, he found it necessary to get two jobs at the same time so as to make enough money to pay for his studies.
