English P6 (Unit 6)

What is the term for a small, rocky object that orbits the Sun, often found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?

• Comet

• Asteorid

• Meteoroid

• Belt Object

Which planet is known as the "Red Planet" due to its reddish appearance and iron-rich soil?

• Venus

• Saturn

• Jupiter

• Mars

Which one is not the feature of non-fiction text?

• Diagrams

• Fact or information boxes

• Settings

• Subheadings

Earth may look enormous from where you're standing, but on a solar system scale it's just a tiny ball of rock zooming around the Sun.

Choose the adjectives.

• zooming, tiny

• enormous, tiny,

• enormous, scale

• standing, zooming

James was proud to be declared the runner up in the fencing tournament.

The use of hyphens (-) in this sentence is . . .

• fencing-tournament

• proud-to-be

• to-be-declared

• runner-up

The children seemed incapable of co-operating with each other.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Stars don't burn forever. Eventually they run out of fuel and swell up. Small, boring stars cool down and shrink, but the biggest stars explode! Our Sun has five billion years left - more than enough time to get your homework done!

When will the Sun go out?

• ten billion years left

• when it exploded

• five billion years left

• when homework is done

A news article does not have an introductory and a closing sentence.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The word 'poisonous' is similar with . . .

• nutritious

• cheerful

• dangerous

• strong

What is a dwarf planet?

• A small star

• A tiny moon

• A distant galaxy

• A small planet