All life on our earth depends, in one way or another, on the sun. Without its light and warmth, there would be no life. The sun gives us our food and our clothing material. It even gives us our coal, too. 

    The sun also makes our day and our night. Light travels in straight lines. It comes from the sun 45,000,000 miles away. 

    The sun lights half the earth at a time. It is day on the lighted side. It is night on the dark side of the earth. Almost every part of the earth turns from day to night during every 24 hours. 

    A sunny day in winter is colder than a sunny day in summer. This is because the summer day is longer, everything has a longer time to warm up and the sun shines more directly on the earth. In winter, the day is short, there is less time for everything to get warm and the sun doesn't shine more directly on the earth. 

    Land, just like the sand, warms up more quickly than water but it also loses its heat more quickly. So on a hot sunny summer's day on the beach, you can feel how hot the sand gets. The water is cool to the feet when you go for a paddle. 

    The sun makes our earth beautiful. It gives us light. It keeps us warm. It makes things grow. We can not live without the sun. 

    地球上的一切生命都是以各種方式依靠太陽而生存的。沒有太 陽的光和熱，就沒有生命。太陽給了我們食物、衣服，甚至我們的煤也是太陽供給的。 

    太陽還給我們創造了白天和黑夜。光是直線傳播的，它來自 9500萬英里遠的太陽。 

    太陽只能照亮半面地球。照亮的一面是白晝，暗的一面就是黑夜。在24小時當中，地球的每部分進行著白晝和黑夜的交替。 

    一個冬天的晴日要比一個夏天的睛日冷，因為夏天的白天比較長，一切東西受熱的時間較長，太陽直射到地球上。冬天，白晝短，物體受熱時間相對短，而且太陽相對較少地直射地球。 

    土地，就像沙子一樣，比水受熱快，但失熱也快。因此，在一個赤熱的夏日的海灘上你會感到沙灘多么熾熱，而當你在淺水灘行走的時候，水卻是涼的。 

    太陽使我們的地球很美好，它給了我們光亮，使我們溫暖，使萬物生長。沒有太陽，我們就不能生存。