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.
【小題1】 It takes _______ for the moon to go around the earth.

Among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the oldest one is the Great Pyramid of Giza. There are three large pyramids at Giza, outside the modern capital of Egypt, Cairo. The largest and most famous one is called the Great Pyramid. The workers built it as a tomb (墳?zāi)? for the Pharaoh Khufu (法老胡夫).

It took more than twenty years to build the Great Pyramid. When it was built, the pyramid was about 146.5 metres high. Over the years it has lost about eight metres off its top.

The pyramid is made of large stone blocks (石塊) — 2,300,000 of them! Each of these blocks weighs over 2,000 kilograms. The ancient Egyptians did not have any modern machines. How did they build the pyramid? The pyramid shows that the ancient people were intelligent and had great skills.

People once thought that the Egyptians made slaves (奴隸) do all the work on the Great Pyramid. But in fact, they used farmers.

1.From the passage we can learn that _____.

2.According to the passage, the height of the Great Pyramid may be_____ metres now.

3.What does the underlined word “intelligent” mean in Chinese?

4.In fact, the Egyptians used ____ to build the pyramid.

5.What is the writer’s purpose in writing this passage?

句型轉(zhuǎn)換
【小題1】Let’s hurry , or we’ll be late. (改為同義句)
          we             hurry, we’ll be late.
【小題2】Han Mei was ill yesterday . She didn’t go to school . (合并為一句)
Han Mei didn’t go to school yesterday                           was ill.
【小題3】The Yong Pioneers go to help the old people once a week.
                            do the Young Pioneers go to help the old people ?
【小題4】When she was 18, she became a professional singer.(改為同義句)
                                          18，she became a professional singer.
【小題5】She won’t come here earlier. She will miss the meeting. (用if合并為一句)
                                 come here earlier , she will miss the meeting.

句型轉(zhuǎn)換

1.Let’s hurry , or we’ll be late. (改為同義句)

          we             hurry, we’ll be late.

2.Han Mei was ill yesterday . She didn’t go to school . (合并為一句)

Han Mei didn’t go to school yesterday                           was ill.

3.The Yong Pioneers go to help the old people once a week.

                            do the Young Pioneers go to help the old people ?

4.When she was 18, she became a professional singer.(改為同義句)

                                          18，she became a professional singer.

5.She won’t come here earlier. She will miss the meeting. (用if合并為一句)

                                 come here earlier , she will miss the meeting.