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Listening practice
/ Section GTF3
Listen to an Academic Talk
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43. Why does the speaker mention faster trains and more accurate clocks at the end?
A
To explain why railways abandoned their first timetables.
B
To argue that technological improvements made standard time unnecessary.
C
To identify the inventions that caused the sun to be measured differently.
D
To emphasize that an agreed convention also mattered to improving the network.