Strange things happen to time when you travel because the earth is divided into twenty-four zones, one hour apart.You can have days 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 time zone every day.As you enter the 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 hour.

  If you travel by ship across the Pacific Ocean(太平洋), you cross the International Line.

  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 things happen to time when you travel because ________.

[  ]

A.

no day really has twenty-four hours.

B.

no one knows where time zones begin

C.

the earth is divided into time zones

D.

in some places one day always has twenty-five hours

(2)

The difference in time between zones is ________.

[  ]

A.

one hour

B.

more than seven days

C.

seven days

D.

twenty-four hours

(3)

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

[  ]

A.

one hour ahead in each time zone

B.

one hour ahead for the whole trip

C.

one full day back for each time zone

D.

one hour back in each time zone

(4)

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

[  ]

A.

is in one time zone

B.

is divided into twenty-four zones

C.

is divided into five time zones

D.

is in four time zones

(5)

The International Date Line is the name for ________.

[  ]

A.

the beginning of any new time zone

B.

any point where tine changes by one hour

C.

the point where a new day begins

D.

the end of any new time zone

答案:1.C;2.A;3.A;4.C;5.C;
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