8.
阅读理解
In
the universe, as we all know, there is the
sun, the moon, the earth and a good many stars. Through our geography lessons,
we know the earth goes around the sun, and the moon goes around the earth. We
have day and night because the earth keeps turning all the time. When our part
of the earth turns to the sun, it is day. When our part of the earth turns away
from the sun, it is night.
Just
because the moon is closer to the earth than
the sun, it looks much bigger than the sun. Big things will look smaller when
they are further, and small things also look bigger when they are nearer.
The
sun is big enough to give out very strong
light. The moon can't give any light at all, but it looks quite bright, too.
Why? In fact, the light from the moon comes from the sun. The moon looks much
bigger and brighter than the stars. But actually (事实上) the stars are much bigger and brighter than the moon. They look
smaller than the moon also because they are further away from the earth.
There
are many other planets in the universe. But
of all the planets, only on the earth there are living things and people can
only live on the earth, too. But at 9:00 a.m. on October 15th,2003, Chinese pilot Yang Liwei was sent up to space. He stayed there
for 21 hours. It was the first time for Chinese to get into space.