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阅 读 理 解 Passage 1 Have you ever seen a moon that looks unbelievably big? It hangs over the horizon 1ike a huge，pale hot-air balloon. Many people think of the bright full moon of autumn or the harvest moon that way-like a huge，pale hot-air balloon. But can you always trust your eyes? The harvest moon is the full moon on a day nearest the first day of autumn. Full or nearly full, it rises early in the evening for several nights in a row, It brings farmers well-lit evenings to harvest their crops. The harvest moon can look huge. But does it really fill more of the sky than an ordinary full moon? Why does the moon look bigger when it is near the horizon? Our brains compare the size of the moon with the size of the objects we see on the horizon. We know that the distant mountains, homes, or skyscrapers are really large. And, since the moon is much farther away than is the distant landscape, we ”see” the moon as being larger than it would otherwise look. 1. To what do we compare the size of the harvest moon? A. Mountains B. Building C. Homes D. A11 of these 2. The main purpose of the article is to A. inform B. persuade C. praise D. convince 3．The author knew most people find the moon A. mysterious B. interesting C. boring D. so ordinary 4．The moon looks bigger if A. it is autumn B. it is near the horizon C. homes are near D. it is a clear night 5. The autumn moon ． A. is more beautiful than it really looks B．is the brightest object in the sky C. rises slowly at dawn D. helps farmers see as they harvest their crops Passage 2 Strange thing happens to time when you ravel. Because the earth is divided into twenty-four time zones one hour apart, you can have days with more or fewer 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 the hour. Traveling west,