Macmillan English Grammar

6 Chaase the carrect form, A, B ar C, to complete the text.

When you look into the night sky, you may not be able to tell the difference between stars and planets, but

planets area.A ....to Earth. However, they are still very far away, and a journey to Mars would be about

nine months, b.... .....than a journey to the Moon (about three days). Even if your future space ship was

c... the simple space probes we have now, it would still take you a coupleafyears to get to jupiter, which

isd... Earth - more than 1,300 times, in fact, and its more than 300 timese.. .jupiter is agiant

balI of gas and the atmospheric pressure isf it is on Earth. If you could land there, you would be

g.. -more than twice as much. The whoIe planet is h Earth as well, and scientists think that

the centre of the planet may be as hot as 1O,000°C. Interestingly, the day on jupiter isi .. ....,and onIy lasts

about ten hours, but a year on jupiter lasts for 11 Earth years. 50 when you came back, you would be

j .. ....when you set autl

a nearer thanless near thanAa lot nearer C B

b

as long asmuch longerAmore longer C B

c

a lot (aster thannot as (ast asAmore (ast C B
d

as big asless big thanAvery much bigger thanC B

e A

maTe denseless dense thanas dense as C B
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less greata lot greater thanA CBjust as great
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much heavierAmaTe than heavy CB less heavy

h

hotterAas hot as CB a lot hotteT than

A

less shorta lot shorter CB shorter than

A

much oldeT thanmore old CBolder

EXTENSION ACTlVITY

1 Write six sentences comparing yaurself naw

with yaurself aged eight.

2 Write six sentences comparing cars and bikes.

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