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　　Strange things happen to time when you travel because the earth is divided into twenty-four zones (时区) , one hour apart(相差一个小时). 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 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 (国际日期变更线) . 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) Why does time become strange when a person travels? Because ________ .

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A. no day really has twenty-four hours

B. no one knows where time zones begin

C. the earth is divided into time zones

(2) The difference in time between zones is ________ .

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A. one hour

B. more than seven days

C. seven days

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

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A. one hour ahead in each time zones

B. one hour ahead for the whole trip

C. one full day back for each time zone

(4) From this selection, it seems true that the Atlantic ________ .

A. is in one time zone

B. is divided into twenty-four zone

C. is divided into five time zone

(5) The international date line is the name for ________ .

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A. the beginning of any new time zone

B. any point where time changes by one hour

C. the point where a new day begins

Answer 1

答案：C;A;A;C;C
解析：

(1) C 从第一句可以知道本题的答案 (2) A 从one hour apart即知 (3) A 变化方法是：Traveling west, you set your clock back. Traveling east, you set it ahead,故本答案是对的 (4) C 太平洋分成1个或24个时区显然不对 (5) C 从第三段的说明可以知道本题的答案