Fill in the blanks with words given in the box. Make any grammatical changes if necessary. There are more words than needed. [চিত্র] If one looks up on a clear (a) , one will see that the sky is full of stars. During the summer months in the (b) Hemisphere, a faint band of light stretches from horizon [গণিত] (c) . For the early Egyptians, this was the heavenly Nile, flowing through the land of the (d) ruled by Osiris. The ancient Greeks used [গণিত] call it a river of milk. (e) now know that the band is actually composed of countless stars in a flattened disk seen edge on. While watching through a large (f) , astronomers find myriads throughout the depths of space. They call such vast (g) of stars galaxies, after the Greek word for milk. Again, the Sun is a star around which the Earth and the other planets (h) . Some stars are intrinsically brighter than the Sun; others are (i) Indeed, they appear densely packed in the Milky Way only because there are so many of them. The actual separations of the stars are (j) so large that it is conventional [গণিত] measure their distances in units of how far light can travel in a given amount of time.

উত্তর: (a) night; (b) Northern; (c) horizon; (d) dead; (e) Astronomers; (f) telescope; (g) collections; (h) revolve; (i) fainter; (j) enormous.

HSC English 1st Paper Reading : Cloze Test (with Clues) CQ — Prosthuti প্রশ্নব্যাংক