Time Zones（时区）
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.
小题1:Strange things happen to time when you travel because______.
A．no day really has 24 hours
B．the earth is divided into time zones
C．time zones are not all the same size
D．no one knows where time zones are小题2:From this passage it seems true that the Atlantic Ocean___.
A．is divided into five time zones
B．is divided into 24 time zones
C．is in one time zone
D．cannot be crossed in five days小题3:If you cross the ocean going west, you set your clock_____.
A．ahead by 25 hours in a new time zone
B．one hour ahead for the whole trip
C．back one full day for each time zone
D．one hour back in each new time zone小题4:The international date line is the name for______.
A．the beginning of any new time zone
B．the point where a new day ends
C．the point where a new day begins
D．any time zone in the Pacific Ocean
小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:C
题目分析：
小题1:这是细节理解题。根据Because the earth is divided into twenty-four zones one hour apart（相差）.一句话可知，导致这种奇怪现象的原因就是因为时区的划分。故选B。
小题2:这是细节理解题。根据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.段落末尾又说“每一天你的旅行不是二十四小时，就是二十五小时”。由此可以判断大西洋跨五个时区。故选A。
小题3:这是细节理解题。根据Travelling west ,you set your clock back;故选 D。
小题4:这是细节理解题。根据this is the point where a new day begins故选 C。
点评：这是一篇涉及地理方面的知识性小品文。地球上共划分了二十四个时区，两个相邻的时区之间时间正好相差一个小时。因此，我们环球旅行时，就会遇到时差问题。国际日期变更线是新的一天开始的地方。穿越这条线向东去，今天就变成了昨天，向西去，今天就成了明天。做这种题需用地理方面的知识来帮助考生理解。
