五年级英语同步阅读1,2

(1)The sun

There is nothing more important in life than the sun. Without the sun all living things on Earth would die. The sun is a star. In the sky there are thousands of stars like the sun. They are as large as the sun and as hot as the sun. At night you can see many stars, but in day-time you can only see one star- the sun.

The sun is much nearer to us than any other star. That is why it looks like the biggest and brightest of all the stars. The distance of the sun from the Earth is as much as 150 million kilometers. Most of the stars are thousands of light years away from the earth.

Do you know what a light year is? Nothing in the world travels faster than light. It travels 300000 kilometers a second. One light year is the distance that light travels in one year.

注释：

Die:死亡，thousands of: 成千上万的，distance:距离，million: 百万，light year:光年，kilometer:千米The sun is____ most important thing to ____. Without the sun, all living things on the earth would lose their _______. The sun is ____of the stars in the ____ that can only be seen in the _____. And the sun is the ___star to our _____. So it looks the biggest and brightest. But the distance between the sun and the Earth still needs____ to measure.

(2) A clock

The clock has a round face with figures on it. And it has two hands, a long hand and a short hand. The short hand points to the hours, the long hand points to the minutes. Some clocks have three hands, a long one, a short one and a very short one. And the longest one points to the second.

We can tell the time by a clock. A clock is big, and it is generally on the wall or it stands on the table. Some clocks are very big, for example, Big Ben, the clock on the houses of Parliament in London. The minute hand of Big Ben is fourteen feet long, and the hour hand is nine feet long.

注释：

Point:指向，second:秒，generally:一般，example:例子，Big Ben: 大本钟，Parliament: 国会

根据上下文回答问题：

1.How many hands are there on the face of a clock? There are ____or _____.

2. What time is it when the long hand points to twelve and the short hand points to six?

It is______.

3.Which clock is the biggest one in the world?

_________

4. Where is Big Ben?

It’s in_________.

5. How long is the minute hand of Big Ben? It’s ______.

答案：

(1)the, life, lives, one, sky, daytime, nearest, Earth,

light, year

(2)two, three, six, Big Ben, London, England,

fourteen.