Reading Comprehension Worksheets PDF with Answer

This universe is a very strange kind of place. The empty spaces in the universe are immeasurable. The distance from our sun to the nearest star is 4.2 light years. This is in spite of the fact that we live in the very crowded part of the universe, namely the Milky Way which is a collection of about 300,000 million stars. About thirty million similar collections are known to exist in the universe.

• What is immeasurable in the universe?
• What is the distance between the sun and the nearest star?
• What is meant by a light year?
• How many groups of stars are known to exist?
• Write the noun forms of ‘exist’ and ‘measure’.
• What do you mean by the milky way?

Answer

• The empty spaces in the universe are immeasurable.
• The distance from our sun and the nearest star is 4.2 light years.
• A light year is a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year, which is 9.4607x 10 km (nearly 6 million miles)
• About 30 million groups of stars are known to exist.

          Word                                  Noun

          exist                                 existence

          measure                         measurement

• The Milky Way is a collection of about 300,000 million stars.

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