Have You Got the Time?

People today are always thinking about the time.

There never seems to be enough time to do all the things we want to do. Believe it or not, there was a time before time was so important.

It was enough to know that the ________ was out in the sky. That meant it was daytime. During these days when the clock seems to control us, doesn’t that sound kind of nice?

Time can mean a lot of different things. That’s one way we know ________ important it is for us. We have so many words about it! The ________ amount (量) of time we can measure (测量) is called a second (秒). When you put 60 seconds together, you get one ________. If you take 60 minutes, you get one hour. The hands (指针) of the clock go all the way around twice in 24 hours, giving us one day.

If you want to look at time more than one day, you look at a calendar (日历) ________ a clock. There are about 30 days in one month. Some months have an extra day; February has a couple less. There are 12 months in one year. Time ________ stops.