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Unit-Three-Can-Time-Move-backward(英语听力教程第三版)
C You are going to hear eight short dialogues concerning time. As you listen, choose from the following the clock whigue takes place and write the number of the dialogue in the brackets above it.
sentences.
1. When it is 7 a.m. Monday in Tokyo, it is 5 p.m. Sunday in New York and 6 a.m. Monday in Hong Kong.
2. When it is 4 p.m. Friday in Melbourne, it is 11 p.m. Thursday in Denver and 9 a.m. Friday in Baghdad.
in summer so that there is a longer period of daylight in the evenings
Part Ⅰ Getting ready
We can use a clock or a watch to mark the passing of time. But what time is it now? Clocks in different parts of the world do not show the same time at the same time. A You are going to hear five statements about time difference. Complete the following
A. The following words and phrases will appear in this unit. All of them are related to time. Listen carefully and study the definitions.
Part Ⅰ Getting ready
that it seems pass more quickly 8. get on: become old 9. standard time: the time which is officially used in a
country or a part of a country 10. daylight-saving time: the time set usually one hour later
▪1 —(6) 2 —(1) 3 —(8) 4 —(2) ▪5 —(4) 6 —(7) 7 —(4) 8 —(5)
5. When it is 1 a.m. Wednesday in London, it is 9 a.m. Wednesday Shanghai and 9 p.m. Tuesday in Santiago.
Part Ⅰ Getting ready
There are four ways of referring to time. For example, 10:35p.m. can be called twenty-five minutes to eleven in the evening in Britain, twenty-five minutes till/of eleven in the evening in America, ten thirty-five in the evening in a 12-hour clock is not commonly used in conversation. It is used especially in timetables and at some radio stations.
3. When it is 3 p.m. Thursday in Singapore, it is 3 a.m. Tuesday in Miami and 10 p.m. Monday in Honolulu.
4. When it is 8 p.m. Friday in Mexico City, it is 12 noon Saturday in Guam and 3 a.m. Saturday in Rome.
Unit 3
Can Time Move backward?
Part Ⅰ Getting ready
If you read a clock, you can know the time of day. But no one knows what time itself is. We cannot see it; we cannot touch it; we cannot hear it. We know it only by the way we mark its passing. Despite of all our success in measuring the smallest parts of time, time itself is still one of the great mysteries of the universe.
1. a quarter: fifteen minutes 2. half :thirty minutes 3. set: put to the right time 4. be off: be slow 5. sharp: exactly at the stated time 6. local time: the time system in a particular part of the world 7. kill time: spend time doing nothing in particular in order