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Strange things happen to time when you travel. Because the earth is divided into twenty-four time 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 each zone, the time changes one hour. Traveling west, you set vour 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. 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!

The difference in time between zones is.

  • A、more than seven days
  • B、twenty-four hours
  • C、one hour
  • D、seven days
正确答案:C
答案解析:

From this selection, it seems true that the Atlantic Ocean .

  • A、is in one time zone
  • B、can’t be crossed in five days
  • C、is divided into time zones
  • D、is divided into twenty-four zones
正确答案:C
答案解析:

If you cross the ocean going east, you set your clock

  • A、ahead one hour in each new time zone
  • B、ahead by twenty-three hours
  • C、back one full day for each time zone
  • D、ahead one hour for the whole trip
正确答案:A
答案解析:

The International Date Line is the name for

  • A、any time zone in the Pacific Ocean
  • B、any point where time changcs by one hour
  • C、the point where a new day begins
  • D、the beginning of any new time zone
正确答案:C
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