When you look at the sky at night, the moon looks bigger than the stars. Actually, the moon is much smaller than the stars and the sun. It’s much smaller than the earth. But the moon is much closer to us than any star. That is why it looks so big. If you hold a coin close to your eye, it looks big. If you look at it across the moon, it looks small.

The moon moves around the earth. It makes one trip in about four weeks. The moon looks flat to us. But it is a round ball, like the earth.

People once thought the moon had fire on it. They thought the fire made it bright. Now we know the moon is like a mirror. It gets its light from the sun.

Our sunlight comes from the sun, too. What is the sun? The sun is a star. The stars we can see have their own light. There are many big stars we cannot see. Their light had burned out. Others are still bright, but they are so far away that we cannot see them. The sun looks bigger and much brighter than other stars because it is the nearest of all stars. The sun and the other stars we see are very hot, but the air around us saves us from the heat of the sun.

The sun gives us light and warmth. It makes plants grow and turns leaves green. It makes life possible on our earth. It is a life giving star.

小题1: It takes _______ for the moon to go around the earth.

A．more than a week

B．nearly a month

C．half a year

D．more than a year小题2: The moon is bright because _______.

A．there is some fire on it

B．it is near the sun, too

C．there is a big mirror on it

D．it can get light from the sun小题3: The passage tells us _______.

A．the sun is not the biggest star

B．the sun is bigger than any other star

C．only the sun can shine

D．the sun is one of the farthest stars to us小题4: Why do we call the sun "a life giving star"?

A．Because it gives us warmth.

B．Because there are some living things on it.

C．Because plants and animals can’t live without it.

D．Because people have to live in the dark without it.