[单项选择]Passage Three The men who planned and constructed the first American railroads were men of great vision. They predicted that their “iron horses” would open vast expanses of land to farming and industry. They knew that towns would spring up along the new railroads. Yet few of these pioneers could have guessed that American railroads would establish the system of time used throughout most of the world today. Until the 1880s, all time in the United States was sun time. Farmers set their clocks to noon when the sun appeared to be overhead. In towns, people set their clocks by a courthouse clock or factory whistles. One town’s time was often different from the time in a neighboring town. As the new railroads expanded, large numbers of people began to travel. But the railroads were unable to print accurate timetables when most towns along their tracks have their clocks set differently. There was need for a change, and the railroads led in planning it. In 1883, rai
A. Towns along the tracks set their clocks differently.
B. No one was able to read timetables that were accurate.
C. Farmers preferred to read the sun instead of timetables.
D. Railroad workers had no watches.

[单项选择]Passage Three The men who planned and constructed the first American railroads were men of great vision. They predicted that their “iron horses” would open vast expanses of land to farming and industry. They knew that towns would spring up along the new railroads. Yet few of these pioneers could have guessed that American railroads would establish the system of time used throughout most of the world today. Until the 1880s, all time in the United States was sun time. Farmers set their clocks to noon when the sun appeared to be overhead. In towns, people set their clocks by a courthouse clock or factory whistles. One town’s time was often different from the time in a neighboring town. As the new railroads expanded, large numbers of people began to travel. But the railroads were unable to print accurate timetables when most towns along their tracks have their clocks set differently. There was need for a change, and the railroads led in planning it. In 1883, rai
A. Farmers set their clocks according to the factory whistles
B. The correct time was not too important before the 1800s
C. Only people who traveled on trains ever knew time
D. A standard system was set up by the pioneers

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Three men who ran a cross-channel smuggling group, selling cheap French beer, wine and champagne in Britain, were jailed yesterday. The men were leaders of an 11-man group which made at least 42 tours on the Dover-Calais ferry in three months.
Trucks of cheap drink were brought into the country and sold (19) at Sunday market and corner shops in South Wales. Two secret teams of customs officers (20) vehicles between Kent and Cardiff in an operation called "chancer". Eleven men admitted their part in a (21) to avoid paying duty on beer and spirits.
Mr. Roger Thomas said it was (22) that 70,000 pounds of unpaid duty was involved between January and April last year when the gang was (23) the smuggling group. Cases of beer, wine and champagne were brought to a rented warehouse in Cardiff before being (24) to traders. Mr. Richard Nichols, a former market tr