Strange things happen to time when you travel, because the earth is
divided into twenty-fourparts6B_ apart. You can have days with
more or fewer than twenty-four hours, and weeks with more or fewer
than seven days.
Your ship goes into__time part every day if you make a five-
day journey across the Atlantic Ocean. As you go into each part, the time
___ one hour Traveling west, you set your clock back; traveling
east, you let it ahead. Each day of your journey has either twenty-five or
twenty-three hours.
If you travel by ship across the Pacificyou_ ___the International
Date Line. This is the point where a new day___.When you go
across the line, you change your calendar one full day, back or ahead.Mr. Clarke works in a middle school. He likes reading and often
borrows some books from the library.Hekeeps____ to the radio
every morning and reading newspapers after supper. So he knows much
and teaches well. His students worship(崇拜) him very much.
Mike, Mr. Clarke.s littleson,is onlynineHe____likes reading
books. And he often asks his father some qusetions. Mr. Clarke always
thinks he.s too___to understand him and chooses the easiest
ones to answer Of course the boy is not pleased with that.
One day Mike read___about the lights and was interested in
it. When his father told him to do some housework, he went on thinking
of it. He asked him___ questions, and his father answered all.
t + A)rhen his father said proudly,"Fathers always know more than sons!"
The boy thought for a while and said,"I don.t think so!"The boy thought for a while and said,"I don.t think so!"
A.afew
B.listening
C.also
D.young
E.something
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