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Time Zones（時區(qū)）
Strange things happen to time when you travel. Because the earth is divided into twenty-four zones one hour apart（相差）.You can have days with more or fewer than twenty-four hours, and weeks more or fewer than seven days.
If you make a five-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean(大西洋)，your ship enters a different time zone every day. As you enter each zone, the time changes one hour. Travelling 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（太平洋）, 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 time day, backward or forward. Travelling east, today becomes yesterday; traveling west, it is tomorrow.
小題1:Strange things happen to time when you travel because______.
A．no day really has 24 hoursB．the earth is divided into time zones
C．time zones are not all the same sizeD．no one knows where time zones are
小題2:From this passage it seems true that the Atlantic Ocean___.
A．is divided into five time zonesB．is divided into 24 time zones
C．is in one time zoneD．cannot be crossed in five days
小題3:If you cross the ocean going west, you set your clock_____.
A．ahead by 25 hours in a new time zoneB．one hour ahead for the whole trip
C．back one full day for each time zoneD．one hour back in each new time zone
小題4:The international date line is the name for______.
A．the beginning of any new time zoneB．the point where a new day ends
C．the point where a new day beginsD．any time zone in the Pacific Ocean

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:C

試題分析：
小題1:這是細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Because the earth is divided into twenty-four zones one hour apart（相差）.一句話可知，導致這種奇怪現(xiàn)象的原因就是因為時區(qū)的劃分。故選B。
小題2:這是細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)If you make a five-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean(大西洋)，your ship enters a different time zone every day. As you enter each zone, the time changes one hour.段落末尾又說“每一天你的旅行不是二十四小時，就是二十五小時”。由此可以判斷大西洋跨五個時區(qū)。故選A。
小題3:這是細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Travelling west ,you set your clock back;故選 D。
小題4:這是細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)this is the point where a new day begins故選 C。
點評：這是一篇涉及地理方面的知識性小品文。地球上共劃分了二十四個時區(qū)，兩個相鄰的時區(qū)之間時間正好相差一個小時。因此，我們環(huán)球旅行時，就會遇到時差問題。國際日期變更線是新的一天開始的地方。穿越這條線向東去，今天就變成了昨天，向西去，今天就成了明天。做這種題需用地理方面的知識來幫助考生理解。
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