A B
Read the following passage, then choose the correct answer to questions 26-30.
of gas.
Planet earth is part of a system of planets and their moons, as well as numerous asteroids and
around a huge star we call the Sun. The Sun itself (27)
comets which (26)
the heat and light that make life on the Earth (29)
Nuclear reactions inside its core (28)
The Earth is the third of four small terrestrial (Earth like) planets that orbit close to the (30)
Further out in our Solar System are four huge gas planets, while distant Pluto, (31)
made (32)
planet, is
rock and ice. Our Earth is one of the ten planets that orbit the Sun- a huge, burning-
are part
hot star in the center of our Solar System. The Solar System and all the stars in the (33)
of our galaxy-the Milky Way, which (34)
as many as 200 billions stars. Beyond our galaxy
millions more galaxies. They all add together to make up the Universe.
(35)
26. A. run
27. A. consists
B. orbit
D. walk
C. turn
C. includes
D. maintains
28. A. produce
29. A. able
30. A. Earth
31. A. the smaller
32. A. from
33. A. space
34. A. consists
35. A. is
B. remains
B. product
B. possibility
B. Mars
B. smallest
B. of
D. productive
D. ability
C. Mercury
D. Sun
C. the most smallest D. the smallest
C. for
D. in
C. Moon
D. sky
C. stays
D. contains
C. to be
D. Get
C. production
C. possible
B. Universe
B. makes from
B. are
fauca ar form of the verbs in brackets.