天津专版2018年高考英语二轮复习专题三阅读理解第三节题组训练2科普知识.docVIP

第三节 题组训练 2 科普知识 A (2017·河东区一模) Do you ever wish for a little more time to do everything you need to do？Well，on July 1 you’ll be getting it—but only one more second. On July 1 at exactly 7：59：59 a．m.Beijing time (or on June 30 at 23：59：59 UTC，Coordinated Universal Time)，the world’s atomic(原子的) clocks will pause for a single second，or，more precisely，change to the unusual time of 7：59：60，according to .The addition of a leap second(闰秒)，announced by the Paris Observatory，is to keep our clocks in time with the slowing of Earth’s rotation(旋转) and astronomical time as measured by the sun. Just one ex