Part 4 - Academic Lecture

Sentence completion

Complete the sentences below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

1. Before the railways, towns set their clocks by the position of the ______.

2. Bristol time was about ______ minutes behind London time.

3. In 1840 the Great Western Railway began using London time in its ______ and stations.

4. The clock on Bristol's Corn Exchange has two minute ______.

5. From the 1850s, time signals were sent from Greenwich by ______.

6. By 1855, almost all public ______ in Britain showed Greenwich time.

7. Greenwich Mean Time became Britain's ______ time in 1880.

8. In the USA, 18 November 1883 was called 'the day of two ______'.

9. Standard time in the USA was introduced by the railways and not by the ______.

10. Today, time is kept by ______ clocks.