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初中英语阅读300篇基础卷p98-p127P98 (1)Life on the earth depends on the sun. Day after day, we see its light and feel its warmth. The sun is far away from the earth. It is ninety-three million miles away from the earth. The sun is a large star. The earth is very small among its planets. Every day the sun sends out a great deal of heat and makes us feel hot. But we receive only a small part of the heat, because the sun is so far away from us and its heat loses more of its energy when it reaches the earth. We also receive a very small part of its light. This is enough for the growth of trees, plants, and humans. On the other hand, much heat and light would be harmful to them. The heat and light from the sun come in just the right quantities for life on the earth. 地球上的生命依赖于太阳。日复一日，我们看到太阳的光芒，感受它的温暖。太阳距离地球很遥远。太阳相距地球九千三百万英里。 太阳是一个大星球。地球在行星中是非常小的。每天太阳散发出巨大的热能，使我们感受了热量。但我们只得到了一小部分的热能，因为太阳离我们太遥远，当它的能量到达地球时已失去了大部分。我们也获得了它的一小部分光亮。这对树木生长，植物生长和人类生长已经足够。从另一方面说，过分的光和热将是对他们有害的。发自太阳的光和热满足了地球上的生命所需。P99 (2)The people on earth belong to many different counties. We speak many different languages and have different ideas. But we are all people born on the earth. All of us live and die on this planet. We have never known any other home. Men believed for thousands of years that the earth was the center of everything. They believed the sun and stars moved around us. The old ideas of men should not surprise us. Most of us only believe what we see. Many years passed, and then people knew that ours is only a very small part of a great universe (巨大的宇宙), and the earth is moving around the sun. What do we know about the place of our earth in space? We know that the earth is one of nine planets moving around the sun. We call the family of the sun and its planets the solar system (太阳系). 地球上的人们属于不同的国家。我们说多种不同的语言，有着不同的想法。不过，我们都是在地球上出生的人。我们大家都在这个星球上生活和死亡。我们从来不知道任何其他的发源地。 几千年来，先人们只相信地球是一切事物的中心。他们认为，太阳和星星围绕着我们转动。 先人们的旧思想不应使我们感到惊讶。我们大多数人只相信我们所看到的。许多年过去了，人们逐渐知道了，我们的星球是巨大的宇宙中的非常小的一部分，地球正在围绕太阳转动。 我们了解了我们的地球在太空中的位置是什么