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  Time changes when you travel.Strange things happen to time when you travel because the earth is divided into twenty-four time zones(時(shí)區(qū)), one hour a part.You can have das with more or fewer than twenty- four hours, and weeks with more or fewer than seven days.

  If you make a five-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean, your ship enters a different day.As you enter each zone the time changes one hour.Traveling west, you set your clock back.Traveling east you set it ahead.Each day of your trip has either twenty-five or twenty-three hours.

  If you travel by ship across the Pacific, you cross the international date line(國(guó)際日期變更線(xiàn)).By agreement, this is the point where a new day begins.When you cross the line, you change your calendar one full day, backward or forward.Traveling east, today becomes yesterday.Traveling west, it is tomorrow.

(1)

Strange thing happen to time when you travel because ________.

[  ]

A.

no day really has twenty-four hours

B.

time flies

C.

the earth is divided into time zones

(2)

The difference in time between two nearby zones is ________.

[  ]

A.

one hour

B.

one month

C.

one day

(3)

If you travel across the Atlantic Ocean, going east, you set your clock ________.

[  ]

A.

one hour ahead for the whole trip

B.

one hour back for each time zone

C.

one hour ahead for each time zone.

(4)

From the passage, it seems true that the Atlantic ________.

[  ]

A.

is one time zone

B.

is divided into five time zone

C.

is divided into 24 time zone.

(5)

The international line is named for ________.

[  ]

A.

the beginning of any new time zone

B.

the point between two different zones

C.

the point where a new day begins

答案:1.C;2.A;3.C;4.B;5.C;
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