[填空题]At what time of the day did the fire start
In the early ______.

[单项选择]At what time did the basketball match start last Saturday
A. At 8:45.
B. At 9:15.
C. At 8:15.
D. At 9:45.

[单项选择]What time will the movie start
A. 8:40.
B. 9:00.
C. 9:40.

[单项选择]
What time does the next movie start
A. (A) 4:00.
B. (B) 7:00.
C. (C) 7:30.
D. (D) 10:30

[单项选择]At what time does the woman’s class start on Wednesday（）
A. 7:30.
B. 8:00.
C. 9:00.
D. 9:30.

[单项选择]What did the teachers do at the time of the fire
A. They tried to put out the fire.
B. They ran into the school kitchen.
C. They helped the children out of the building.
D. They ran away from the building.

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M: What time does the meeting start
W: At 8:30. We have 15 minutes to get there.

What time is it now（）
A. 9:00.
B. 9:50.
C. 8:15.
D. 8:45.

[填空题]On which day did the Titanic sink

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M: What time does the meeting start
W: At 8: 30. We have 15minutes to get there.

What time is it now（　）.
A. 8:15.
B. 8:45.
C. 9:50.

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W: What time does the film start
M: At 7:30. We have 45 minutes to get there.

What time is it now（　）.
A. 6:45.
B. 6:15.
C. 6:30.

[单项选择]At some later point, what did humans start to breed dogs for（　）
A. For looks and companionship.
B. For hunting and protection.
C. For herding livestock.
D. For fun.

[单项选择]For which day did Mr. Nelson make a hotel reservation（）
A. The l7th.
B. The l8th.
C. The 19th.
D. The 20th.

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Daylight Saving Time (DST)

How and When Did Daylight Saving Time Start
A．Benjamin Franklin-of "early to bed and early to rise" fame-was apparently the first person to suggest the concept of daylight savings. While serving as U.S. ambassador to France in Pads, Franklin wrote of being awakened at 6 a.m. and realizing, to his surprise, that the sun would rise far earlier than he usually did. Imagine the resources that might be saved if he and others rose before noon and burned less midnight oil, Franklin, tongue half in cheek, wrote to a newspaper.
B．It wasn’t until World War I that daylight savings were realized on a grand scale. Germany was the first state to adopt the time changes, to reduce artificial lighting and thereby save coal for the war effort. Friends and foes soon followed suit. In the U.S. a federal law standardized the yearly start and end of daylight saving time in 1918-for the states that ch