
Questions 6-10
Choose the word which best fits each space in the text below.
The stars
There are millions of stars in the sky. If you look (6) .................. the sky on a clear night, it is possible
to see about 3000 stars. They look small, but they are really (7) .................. big hot balls of burning
gas. Some of them are huge, but others are much smaller, like our planet Earth. The biggest stars are
very bright, but they only live for a short time. Every day new stars (8) .................. born and old stars
die. All the stars are very far away. The light from the nearest star takes more (9) .................. four
years to reach Earth. Hundreds of years ago, people (10) .................. stars, like the North star, to know
which direction to travel in. Today you can still see that star.