Section Ⅱ Use of English
(15 minutes)
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, or Don your ANSWER SHEET 1.
Text
As every traveler soon finds out, it is important to know the local time. 26 until the last century, every town and village kept its own time, usually regulated 27 an official public clock set in the town hall or village church. 28 the sun was directly overhead, the clock 29 strike noon. This meant that the time was 30 for each degree of longitude (经度) Saudi Arabia and a few Pacific islands still keep this "sun time". 31 of the world, however, operates according to time zones 32 by international agreement. The globe is divided 33 24 time zones, one for each hour of the day. Mean time is the time at the Prime Meridian (本初子午线). All the 34 zones are measured according to 35 time or minus time, reflecting the differences 36 the particular time zone and Greenwich mean time. The International Date Line, 37 one day changes to the next, is at 38 near the 180th meridian.
The boundaries between time zones are usually meridians. 39 on some maps they appear to be straight lines, they are 40 great circles. In many places, 41 , the time-zone boundaries have been 42 to accommodate national boundaries and other political or economic divisions.
Most nations prefer to have 43 of their territory in the same time zone. Those 44 very large areas, however, need to 45 themselves into two or more zones.