Question

Strange things happen when you travel, because the earth is divided into twenty-four zones. The time difference between two zones is one hour. You can have days with more than twenty-four hours and days with fewer than twenty- four hours. You can have weeks with more than seven days and weeks with fewer than seven days.

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

If you make a trip by ship across the Pacific Ocean , you cross the International Date Line. This is the point where a new day begins when you cross the line, you change one full day. If you travel east, today becomes yesterday, if you travel west it is tomorrow.

1.Something interesting will happen to the time if you travel because ______.

A．a day has always fewer than twenty-four hours

B．a day has always more than twenty- four hours

C．a day has more or fewer than twenty-four hours,

D．some time zones are large and some time zones are small

2.The time difference between two time zones is ______.

A．twenty-four hours                       B．one hour

C．two hours                             D．twenty-three hours

3.If we travel east across the International Date Line on July 5th, the date becomes July ____.

A．3rd              B．4th              C．5th              D．6^th

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.B

3.B

【解析】

試題分析：本文介紹了世界時區的有趣的事情。

1.C 細節題。根據第一段2,3行The time difference between two zones is one hour. You can have days with more than twenty-four hours and days with fewer than twenty- four hours說明時間的變化是最有趣的事情，故C正確。

2.B 細節題。根據文章第一段第2行The time difference between two zones is one hour說明兩個時區之間隔一小時，故B正確。

3.B 推理題。根據文章最后一句If you travel east, today becomes yesterday, if you travel west it is tomorrow.如果你向東，今天變昨天，故5號就變成了4號，故B正確。

考點：考查地理知識類短文

點評：本文講述的是時區的事情，考查細節題較多，答題時在文章找到對應的地方，用筆進行標記，這有利于后期有時間檢查時可以立刻找到答案的位置。仔細理解作者所講的意思，再結合選項，通過排除法和自己對全文的把握，選出正確答案。