Light travels at a speed which is about a million times faster than the speed of  sound. You can get some idea of this difference by watching the start of a race. If    you stand some distance away from the starter, you can see smoke from his gun      before the sound reaches your ears.
This great speed of light produces some strange facts. Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach us. If you look at the light of the moon tonight, remember that the light   rays left the moon 1.3 seconds before they reached you. The nearest star is so far  away that the light that you can see from it tonight started to travel towards you    four years ago at a speed of nearly 2 million km. per minute. In some cases, the    light from one of tonight’s stars had started on its journey to you before you were born.
Thus, if we want to be honest, we can’t say, “The stars are shining tonight.” We   have to say instead, “The stars look pretty. They were shining four years ago, but    their light has only just reached the earth.”
小題1: Light speed is ______ sound speed
A．a(chǎn)s fast asB．a(chǎn) million times slower than
C．a(chǎn)bout millions of times faster thanD．a(chǎn)bout a million times faster than
小題2:If you stand 200 meters away from a man who is firing a gun to start a race, you will find out that ______.
A．you can hear the sound before you see the smoke
B．the sound does not travel as fast as light
C．the sound will reach you before the man fires
D．sound travels about a million times faster than light
小題3:Sunlight obviously (明顯地) ______ than the light of the moon
A．has to travel a greater distanceB．moves less quickly
C．travels much more quicklyD．is less powerful(有力的)
小題4:The scientific way of saying "The stars are shining tonight" should be ______.
A．the stars have been shining all the time
B．the stars seen tonight will shine four years later
C．the stars were shining long ago but seen tonight
D．the starlight seen today could be seen four years ago

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:C

小題1:D 事實細(xì)節(jié)題。由第1段第1句可知。
小題2:B 推理判斷題。由第1段最后一句推出。
小題3: A 推理判斷題。由第2段的第2句(太陽光到達(dá)地球需要8分鐘) 和第3句(月光到達(dá)地球僅需1.3秒) 可推出(太陽光走過的距離明顯遠(yuǎn)于月光)。
小題4:C 推理判斷題。由最后一段的最后一句They were shining four years ago, but their light has only just reached the earth可推出。
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