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There is nothing more【小题1】  than the sun. Without the sun, all【小题2】  things on the earth will【小题3】.
The sun is a star. In the sky there【小题4】  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,【小题5】  in the daytime you can only see one star, the sun.
The sun is much nearer to us than any other star. This is【小题6】  it looks biggest and    __ of all the stars. The distance of the sun from the earth is as much as 150【小题8】__  kilometers. Most of the stars are thousands of light years（光年）away from the earth.
Do you know the light year? Nothing in the world travels faster than light. It    ____ at 300, 000a second. And one light year is the distance that light travels in one year.