Passage One 

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

If you make a five-day trip across the Atlantic ocean, your ship enters a different time zone every day. As you enter each zone, the time changes one hour. Traveling west, you set your clock back; traveling east, you set it ahead. Each day of your trip has either twenty-five of twenty-three hours. 

If you travel by ship across the Pacific, 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 day, backward or forward. Traveling east, today becomes yesterday, traveling west, it is tomorrow! 

 The difference in time between zones is _________ .

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic. You should write at least 120 words and base your composition on outline( given in Chinese) below.

你计划4月6日晚上6点在家举办一场派对。写一封信邀信给你的朋友，内容应包括：

1说明你举办派对的原因。

2告知你所安排的派对活动。

当朋友陷入困境时，我们应当毫不犹豫的帮助他们。_____________________________________________________________________________

他把他的成功归功于他的老师和他的家人。_____________________________________________________________________________

是我们的所为和所不为决定着我们的未来。_____________________________________________________________________________

我喜欢农村生活胜过城市生活。_____________________________________________________________________________

我们可以通过电话与世界上大多数地方的人交流。_____________________________________________________________________________

The government or employer may be able to help you pay all or some college costs._____________________________________________________________________________

This is generally true of American schools, especially at the undergraduate level._____________________________________________________________________________

A dog is loyal to its master and consequently wants him to show proof of his affection_____________________________________________________________________________

Different dogs were originally developed to perform specific tasks._____________________________________________________________________________