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      There is nothing more i____ to life than the sun. W____ the sun, all living things on the earth would die. The sun is a star. In the sky there are t____ 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, but in the day you can o____ see one star-- the sun.

      The sun is much n____ to us than any other star. That is w____ it looks the biggest and brightest of all the stars. The distance (距离) of the sun from the earth is as m____ as 150,000,000 kilometers. Most stars are thousands of light-years a____from the earth.

      Do you know what a light-year is? N____ in the world travels faster than light. It travels 300,000 kilometers per second. And one light-year is the distance that light can travel in one y____.