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- Synonyms and Urdu words meaning of difficult English words
- Exercise short questions and answers
- Extra short questions
- Exercise multiple-choice questions (MCQs)
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The Dying Sun – Short Questions & Answers
Q.1: How is it that a star seldom finds another star near it?
Ans: Millions of stars are wandering about in space. A few form groups which journey in company, but most of them travel alone. And they travel through a universe so immense that it is a very, very rare event indeed for one star to come anywhere near to another. For the most part, each star makes its voyage in complete loneliness, like a ship on an empty ocean.
Q.2: What happened when, according to Sir James Jeans, a wandering star, wandering through space, came near the sun?
Ans: Years ago, a star wandering blinding through space, came near the sun. It must have raised tides on the surface of the sun and created a disturbance. As this star would have come nearer, the tides would have been higher and ultimately developed into big mountains. As the second star began to move away, its tidal pull had become so powerful that this mountain was torn to pieces and threw off small parts of itself into space our earth is one of those pieces.
Q.3: What happened when the wandering star came nearer and nearer?
Ans: Years ago, a star wandering blinding through space, came near the sun. It must have raised tides on the surface of the sun and created a disturbance. As this star would have come nearer, the tides would have been higher and ultimately developed into big mountains. As the second star began to move away, its tidal pull had become so powerful that this mountain was torn to pieces and threw off small parts of itself into space our earth is one of those pieces.
Q.4: What are planets and how did they come into existence?
Ans: Years ago, a star wandering blinding through space, came near the sun. It must have raised tides on the surface of the sun and created a disturbance. As this star would have come nearer, the tides would have been higher and ultimately developed into big mountains. As the second star began to move away, its tidal pull had become so powerful that this mountain was tom to pieces and threw off small parts of itself into space our earth is one of those pieces.
Q.5: Why is there no life on the stars?
Ans: Life needs a suitable temperature to exist, a temperature at which substance can exist in liquid form. The stars are too hot for this. Life can exist only on earth because here the temperature is neither too hot nor too cold.
Q.6: Write a note on the beginning of life on the earth?
Ans: We do not know how and when life came into existence. It must have started in the form of a simple organism, whose living power consisted chiefly in their being able to reproduce themselves before dying. From these humble beginnings came steam of life, which grows ever more and more complex has in the end produced human beings.
Q.7: Why is the universe, of which our earth is a part, so frightening? Give as many as you can.
Ans: We find the universe frightening because of its immense distance which we do not understand, frightening because of the stretches of time so great that we cannot imagine them, making the whole of human history so very small in comparison, frightening because of our extreme loneliness, and because of the littleness of our home in space, a millionth part of the grain of sand out of al! the sea -stand in the world. But above all else, we find the universe frightening because we cannot find any sign that life like our own exists anywhere in it except on the earth.
Q.8: What, in your opinion, should be the conditions necessary, for the kind of life we know to exist on other heavenly bodies? Do such conditions generally exist?
Ans: There are certain conditions necessary for life to exist, along with water, food, and air, a temperature at which substances can exist in liquid form. On the planets which are very close to the sun, life would be burnt up, and away from it, life would be frozen. The earth • is the only place, where the temperature is neither too hot nor too cold.
The Dying Sun – Extra Short Questions and Answers
Q.1: What is the littleness of our earth as compared to the universe?
Ans: A few stars are known which are hardly bigger than the earth, but most of them are so large that hundreds of thousands of earth could be packed inside each and leave room to spare; here and there we find an immense star large enough to contain millions and millions of earth. And the total number of stars in the universe is probably something like the total Humber of grains of sand on all the seashores of the total substance of the universe.
Q.2: What are stars and planets?
Ans: The stars burning particles in space. They wander about in the space. Sometimes they travel alone and sometimes they form groups. Sometimes a star breaks and throws off its pieces in the space. These pieces revolve around its star. These moving particles are called planets.
Lesson No.1 – Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. According to James Jeans the earth came into existence.
(a) Two thousand million years age
(b) Three thousand million years age
(c) One thousand million years age
(d) Four thousand million years age
2. The space beyond the Milky Way is immensely cold.
Replace the underlined phrase with any of the following.
(a) Group of Stars
(b) Group of Planets
(c) Group of Moons
(d) Group of Shining particles
3. The stars are immense balls of fire. The underlined word can be replaced by
(a) Tiny
(b) Huge
(c) Small
(d) Burning
4. The building is made of bricks and stones. The underlined word is a/an
(a) Material Noun
(b) Verb
(c) Adjective
(d) Adverb
5. Beauty is a nine-day wonder. The underlined word is a/an
(a) Proper Noun
(b) Adjective
(c) Abstract Noun
(d) Common Noun
6. Our team won the match. The underlined word is a/an
(a) Verb
(b) Proper Noun
(c) Abstract Noun
(d) Collective Noun
Answers
| 1-A | 2-A | 3-B |
| 4-A | 5-C | 6-D |
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