Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everybody, I am new to shell script. Please help me with this problem.
I have a file test.txt with the content like this:
I have a shell script test.sh like this

Code:

#!/bin/sh 

while read line
do    
    echo $line >> out.txt
done < test.txt

out.txt is expected to have the same content with test.txt. But here is the output.txt
laconfirm remote1 test.sh test.txt are files in the same folder.
It replaces the * in the original text.txt

Would you please tell me what is my problem and how I can fix it?
Thanks in advance.