1 . 下列素材选自于现行牛津英语教材。阅读短文，然后根据其内容从方框中选出可以填入文中空白处的词语。

turn away        have day       from the sun     towards the sun     larger than

Our earth gets its warmth and light     1    . The sun is a huge blazing（酷热的）ball, a million times     2     the earth. And it is millions of miles away. The earth spins（旋转） round once every 24 hours. It turns to face the sun and spins away every 24 hours.

When our part of the earth looks on to the sun, we see sunlight and we     3    . When our part turns away from the light, we have night.

When our part begins to turn     4     and we see the first sunlight, we call it morning.

When we are facing the sun most directly, it is noon. Then the sun is closest to begin straight（直接地）above us. When we begin to     5     from the sun, we have afternoon, evening and night.

2 .        Long, long ago people thought that the sun went around the earth. In some countries, people said that the sun was a god（神）. They thought that he drove across the sky each day on a golden（金色的）horse.
       But now we know the earth goes around the sun. Today men know how far it is for the earth to go around the sun. They tell us that the earth travels over 1000 miles（英里）a minute on its way around the sun.
       The sun is really a star. It is much bigger than the earth and it is very hot. Some people have been to the moon, but we know that no one can ever get to the sun. It is too hot for people to live anywhere near it. The sun is 300, 000 times（倍）heavier than the earth and more than a million（百万）times larger.
1. What did people think about the sun long, long ago?
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2. What goes around the sun?
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3. Which is bigger, the sun or the earth?
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4. Why don’t people get to the sun?
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5. Can people live near the sun?
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3 . Our earth gets _________ warmth and light from the sun. The sun is a huge blazing(酷热的)ball, a _________ times larger than the earth. And it is _________ of miles away. The earth spins(旋转)round once every 24 hours. It turns to _________ the sun and spins away every 24 hours.

When our part of earth looks on to the sun, we see sunlight and we have _________. When our part turns away from the light, we have _________.

When our part begins to turn towards the sun and we see the first sunlight, we call it _________. When we are facing the sun most directly, it is _________. Then the sun is _________ to begin straight (直接地)above us. When we begin to turn away from the sun, we have afternoon, evening and __________.

1.

A．it

B．its

C．it’s

2.

A．hundreds

B．thousand

C．million

3.

A．hundreds

B．thousands

C．millions

4.

A．head

B．nose

C．face

5.

A．minute

B．day

C．date

6.

A．night

B．time

C．day

7.

A．noon

B．morning

C．evening

8.

A．afternoon

B．evening

C．noon

9.

A．close

B．closer

C．closest

10.

A．afternoon

B．morning

C．night

4 . The Earth goes around the Sun, and the Moon goes around the Earth. When our part of the Earth turns to the Sun, it’s the day. When our part of the Earth turns away from the Sun, it is the night.

        The Sun is much bigger than the Moon. But sometimes the Moon looks bigger than the Sun because it’s much nearer to the Earth. The Sun is very bright. It gives very strong light. The Moon looks very bright too. But it doesn’t give any light.
       The Moon looks much bigger and brighter than the stars. But in fact, the stars are much bigger than the Moon. They look smaller than the Moon because they’re much farther (更远的) away from us.
1. ________ goes around the Earth.

A．The Moon

B．The Mars

C．The Sun

D．The star

2. When it is the night, ________.

A．we can’t see any stars in the sky	B．the Moon looks much smaller than the stars
C．our part of the Earth turns away from the Sun	D．our part of the Earth turns to the Sun

3. Why does the Moon look bigger than the Sun sometimes?

A．Because the Moon comes out only at night.	B．Because the Moon is bigger than the Sun.
C．Because the Moon is far away from the Earth.	D．Because the Moon is much nearer to the Earth.

4. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．The stars are much farther away from us than the Moon.	B．The Sun is bright but it gives weak light.
C．The stars look much bigger than the Moon.	D．The stars are not bigger than the Moon.

5. We may read this passage in a ________.

A．storybook

B．magazine

C．cookbook

D．comic book

6 . 下列素材选自于现行牛津英语教材。阅读短文，然后根据其内容从方框中选出可以填入文中空白处的词语。

do exercises             about four days        travel into space        wear a spacesuit       Without gravity

I’m so happy! Tomorrow I’ll be one of the first students to     1    . The spaceship will leave the Earth at 9 a.m.. It’ll take us to the Moon. I can’t wait!

The moon is around 380,000 kilometres from the Earth, so it’ll take us     2     to get there. There’s no gravity in space, so we’ll all be able to float around in the spaceship. We’ll have to tie ourselves to our beds so that we won’t float away in our sleep!     3    , our bodies may get weak, so we’ll have to     4     every day.

When we arrive, I’m going to walk on the Moon. I’ll have to     5     to help me breathe because there is no air on the Moon. I am going to take as many photos as I can, that is, if my camera still works up there.

7 . Do you have a dream of going to the Moon? In July 1969, two astronauts from the US walked on the Moon. Their names were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. If you visit the Moon today, you will still be able to _______ their footprints! They also left behind the _______ flag.

When the astronauts went to the Moon, they needed to _______ spacesuits and helmets (头盔) to protect themselves, because sometimes the Moon is very _______ or very hot. The helmets also helped them breathe because there is no _______ on the Moon.

Do you know that if you weigh 70 pounds on Earth, you will weigh only 11.5 pounds on the Moon? And if you go for a _______ on the Moon, you will jump with each step. Here is a (n) _______ thing about the Moon: Do you know that the Moon is like a mirror? It reflects (反射) the _______ of the Sun and _______ it to the Earth. And that makes the Moon look __________ and beautiful! Don’t you agree we have a beautiful Moon?

1.

A．build

B．buy

C．see

2.

A．American

B．English

C．Japanese

3.

A．blow

B．provide

C．wear

4.

A．quiet

B．cold

C．different

5.

A．water

B．air

C．wind

6.

A．space

B．walk

C．look

7.

A．foreign

B．modern

C．interesting

8.

A．light

B．sound

C．smell

9.

A．sends

B．carries

C．brings

10.

A．young

B．dark

C．bright

8 . 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

Do you know something about the Moon? You can     1     (seeing) it at night. Sometimes it looks round and     2     (brightly). It also looks quite near. But the Moon is very far from the Earth. If you take     3     spaceship, you will get there in more than     4     (third) days. The spaceship     5     (go) very fast, at 11 kilometres a second. In 1969 two     6     (American) got on the Moon by spaceship.

There     7     (be) no living things on the Moon     8     there is no air or water there. That’s why people can’t live there. But you may know you can jump much higher there than     9     the Earth. It’s fun, isn’t it?

    10     (Hopeful) I can visit the Moon in the future.

9 . The Sun offers us light.     1     It makes things grow. All the living things on the Earth need the Sun. However, how much do you know about the Sun?

The Sun is a huge star.     2     In the sky, there are thousands of stars like the Sun. They are as large and hot as the Sun. At night, you can see many stars.     3    

Our Earth is cool enough to live on because the hot Sun is so far away.     4     If a plane flew day and night without stopping, it could take nearly 18 years to get to the Sun. If the Sun were much nearer, our Earth would be too hot to live on.     5     Aren’t we lucky to be just about the right distance away form the Sun?

A．But if there were no Sun, the Earth would be so cold that nothing could live on it.

B．However, in the daytime, you can only see one star—the Sun.

C．One million balls as big as our Earth could fit inside the Sun.

D．It is about one hundred and fifty million kilometers away.

E．It keeps us warm.

10 . We all know the Sun is important. It gives sunshine to plants, animals and people on the Earth.     1     It’s the Sun’s energy. It makes life on our earth possible. Energy from the Sun is called solar energy.

    2     They built houses with windows so that the sunlight could get inside and make them warm.

We can also turn the Sun’s light into electricity. It has something to do with solar panels（太阳能电池板）.

    3    

But what happens when it is cloudy or rainy? Solar panels cannot collect energy from sunlight on cloudy and rainy days.     4     Because solar panels have batteries（电池）in them to keep electricity.

At the same time, solar energy is good for the environment.     5     And we can’t use it up. So we should try our best to find more good ways to use it in our life.

A．They collect energy from sunlight to make electricity.

B．It will not pollute the air and water.

C．But how does the Sun do that?

D．People started to use solar energy many years ago.

E．It can produce electricity from water.

F．You can do many things to protect the environment.

G．We needn’t worry about it.