Living things have a life cycle.They are born，grow，and die.Even though stars are not living things，they do have a life cycle.A star is born in a cloud of dust and gas.A young star is blue and very hot.A middle-aged star is yellow.It cools and becomes a red giant.Finally，the star explodes.The light of a star tells astronomers many things about the star.Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer who carefully classified（分級）stars by looking at their light.
Annie Jump Cannon was born in 1863.Her mother taught her about the constellations（星座）when she was a girl.Annie was interested in studying the stars when she grew up.But not many women went to college in those days.Also，Annie had an illness that caused her lost most of her hearing.But these things didn't stop Annie from earning two college degrees.
Cannon was hired to work at the Harvard College Observatory（天文臺）.Astronomers there used telescopes and took photographs of the sky.It was an exciting new science.
The light from each star passed through a prism（棱鏡）in the telescope.A prism is a piece of cut glass.Light passing through a prism is separated into a rainbow.Cannon studied the photos of each band of colors.Almost all photos were black and white.She could not see the colors.She could only see different dark lines.She used them to classify stars from younger and very hot to older and cooler.
Annie Jump Cannon classified more than 300，000 stars!Her star catalog is still used by astronomers all over the world.During her lifetime，Cannon received many honors.In 1934，an award was named for her.The Annie J.Cannon Award in Astronomy is given every year.It is given to a woman astronomer from North America.
（1）A prism can AA.
A．separate light into colors
B．take a photograph
C．cut through glass
D．tell the age of a star
（2）What does the underlined word "them" in the fourth paragraph refer to？ DD
A．Colors.
B．Prisms.
C．Photos.
D．Dark lines.
（3）Which of the following is NOT the description to Cannon？ CC
A．She was nearly deaf.
B．She knew about stars.
C．She didn't go to college.
D．She worked carefully.
（4）What is the passage mainly about？ CC
A．A report on science.
B．A report on astronomy.
C．An introduction to Annie Jump Cannon.
D．An introduction to the development of astronomy.
【答案】A；D；C；C
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