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Name: ________________
I. Use your dictionary to match the English with Romanian. Then write the words in your
vocabulary notebook.
1. to be located
a. strălucitor
2. to believe
b. pe lîngă
3. in addition to
c. a crea
4. to contain
d. a crede
5. the same
e. întunecos
6. appearance
f. același
7. dwarf
g. înfățișare
8. to create
h. a se afla
9. dim
i. a călători
10. bright
j. a conține
11. to travel
k. pitic
II. Arrange the sentences in the correct order, according to the text on page 14.
a. The latter has a diameter of almost two billion miles.
b. If you counted one star a second it would take you more than thirty thousand years to count
100 billion.
c. But, during your lifetime, as always, new stars are being crated.
d. The solar system is located in the Milky Way Galaxy.
e. Stars are not the same size.
f. In addition to the stars there are gases in the galaxy that may have become stars after a long
time.
III. Answer the following questions based on the text.
1. What makes up the solar system?
2. How many stars to astronomers believe there are?
3. How many galaxies are there in the universe?
4. How large is Betelgeuse?
5. What are small stars called?
6. What is the diameter of the earth?
7. What is the name of the smallest star?
8. What are old stars changing into?
Homework
1. to learn vocabulary words (from I)
2. to complete ex. 2 & ex. 3, page 15