阅读理解实战演练

徐香琼

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Mr Hill arrives at London Airport, at the end of a three-week holiday in France. Usu- ally he wears a beard (留胡须). Since it has been hot there, he has taken it off(剃掉). But his passport photo shows him with his beard.An officer looks at the photo for a moment, and says, "Excuse me, will you please sit down? I .won't keep you long." With this, he walks away, shows the photo to a second offi-cer and says, "I know that face." The second officer looks at the passport and asks where Mr Hill has come from. When he hears that Mr Hill has arrived back from Paris, the sec-ond officer smiled and says, "An Englishman with a beard stole a painting in Paris on Fri-day, And that man looks just like the kind of man...