18. 주어진 글 다음에 이어질 글의 순서로 가장 적절한 것은?
Nowadays the clock dominates our lives so much that it is hard to imagine life without it. Before industrialization, most societies used the sun or the moon to tell the time. ----------------------- (A)For the growing network of railroads, the fact that there were no time standards was a disaster. Often, stations just some miles apart set their clocks at different times. There was a lot of confusion for travelers. (B)When mechanical clocks first appeared, they were immediately popular. It was fashionable to have a clock or a watch. People invented the expression “of the clock” or “o’clock” to refer to this new way to tell the time. (C)These clocks were decorative, but not always useful. This was because towns, provinces, and even neighboring villages had different ways to tell the time. Travelers had to reset their clocks repeatedly when they moved from one place to another. In the United States, there were about 70 different time zones in the 1860s.
- 1(A)-(B)-(C)

- 2(B)-(A)-(C)

- 3(B)-(C)-(A)

- 4(C)-(A)-(B)
