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Listen to the extract and mark true false statements.
1. The scientist raises the questions about the Universe.
2. Scientific researches in astronomy gave the answers to the questions.
3. The Greek philosopher Aristotle put forward an argument that the
Earth wasn't a flat plate.
4. The Greeks knew a lot about the Universe because they travelled much.
5. It was another British scientist who demonstrated that our galaxy
wasn't the only one.
6. Edwin Hubble made many calculations to determine distances to other
galaxies.
7. The scientist worked out distances to twenty different galaxies by
measuring their brightness.
8. Each galaxy contains thousand million stars.
9. It is a well-known fact that our galaxy is slowly rotating.
0. It was proved scientifically that the Sun is no longer a star.
In the United Kingdom, the New Year is celebrated from the evening of December 31st into January 1st.
The date was declared as the New Year in 1752. Before 1752, England celebrated its New Year on Christmas Day, that is on December, 25.
Traditionally it is not as widely celebrated as Christmas. However, people enthusiastically wait for the time of the New Year to arrive; more so because it offers them a chance to carry forward their celebration mood of Christmas ahead and higher with the New Year celebrations.