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Final Exam of College English Band IV Paper I I. Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (10%) Directions: In this part, you will go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on the Answer Sheet. For questions 1-7, markA (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;B (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;C (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. The Earth Power and Light Compared to the rest of the universe, the Earth is very small. Our planet and eight (or maybe nine) others orbit the Sun, which is only one of about 200 billion stars in our galaxy (银河系). Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of the universe, which includes millions of other galaxies and their stars and planets. By comparison, the Earth is microscopic (微小的). Compared to a person, on the other hand, the Earth is enormous. It has a diameter (直径) of 7,926 miles (12,756 kilometers) at the equator (赤道), and it has a mass of about 6 x 1024 kilograms. The Earth orbits the Sun at a speed of about 66,638 miles per hour (29.79 kilometers per second). Don’t dwell on those numbers too long, though; to a lot of people, the Earth is inconceivably, mind-bogglingly big. And it’s just a fraction of the size of the Sun. From our perspective on Earth, the Sun looks very small. This is because it’s about 93 million miles away from us. The Sun’s diameter at its equator is about 100 times bigger than Earth’s, and about a million Earths could fit inside the Sun. The Sun is inconceivably, mind-bogglingly bigger. But without the sun, the Earth could not exist. In a sense, the Earth is a giant machine, full of moving parts and complex systems. All those systems need power, and that power comes from the Sun. The Sun is an enormous nuclear power source—through complex reactions, it transforms hydrogen into helium (氦), releasin