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一、（原快速阅读理解调整为长篇阅读理解，篇章长度和难度不变。篇章后附有10个

句子，每句一题。每句所含的信息出自篇章的某一段落，要求考生找出与每句所含信息相

匹配的段落。）

Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements

attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.

Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a

paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the

questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

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 Paris, Franklin wrote of being

awakened at 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 chose to observe it.

[C ] During World War II the U.S. made daylight saving time mandatory^ 强制

的)for the whole country, as a way to save wartime resources. Between February 9,

1942, and September 30, 1945, the government took it a step further. During this

period daylight saving time was observed year-round, essentially making it the

new standard time, if only for a few years. Many years later, the Energy Policy Act

of 2005 was enacted, mandating a controversial month-long extension of daylight

saving time, starting in 2007.

Daylight Saving Time: Energy Saver or Just Time Suck?

[D ] In recent years several studies have suggested that daylight saving time

doesn’t actually save energy—and might even result in a net loss. Environmental

economist Hendrik Wolff, of the University of Washington, co-authored a paper

that studied Australian power-use data when parts of the country extended

daylight saving time for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and others did not. The

researchers found that the practice reduced lighting and electricity consumption

in the evening but increased energy use in the now dark mornings—wiping out

the evening gains. That’s because the extra hour that daylight saving time adds in

the evening is a hotter hour. “So if people get home an hour earlier in a warmer

house, they turn on their air conditioning,” the University of Washington’s Wolff

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