For many companies without Google’ s money, however, the leap second will likely still cause some crashes.
32. Why do we need to add a leap second?
A. To change the world’ s atomic clocks.
B. To keep atomic clocks in time with the world’ s computers.
C. To keep atomic clocks in time with the slowing of Earth’ s rotation.
D. To record the changes to astronomical time.
33. What happened to the website Reddit when the leap second was added in 2017?
A. It crashed because of a virus attack.
B. Its network time added two extra seconds.
C. All of the code in its Linux system went wrong.
D. One of its software systems got confused and the site broke down.
34. How do companies usually deal with the problem of the extra second?
A. By shutting down computers at the end of the day.
B. By stopping receiving emails during that second.
C. By turning the clocks back by one second at the end of the day.
D. By cutting the extra second into milliseconds and putting them into the system throughout the day.
35. What’ s Pascoe’ s attitude toward Google’ s solution to the problem?
A. Ambiguous.
B. Approving.
C. Doubtful.
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