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1 What is the best title for the passage?
The Facts of Mars
The Achievements of NASA
The Historical Meaning of “Curiosity”
✔ The Landing of “Curiosity” and Its Mission
2 Why did NASA scientists use a giant parachute?
✔ to make the robot’s landing slower to make the computer work slowly
to make the space shuttle fly fast to make the searching for oxygen fast
3 Which of the following is NOT true about Curiosity?
Curiosity is a car-sized robot.
Curiosity was sent into space on November 26, 2011.
✔ Curiosity has not sent even one picture back to Earth so far.
Curiosity’s mission is to find important things like oxygen.
4 What can be inferred from the passage?
Robots helped NASA scientists.
Curiosity could land by itself.
Humans can live on Mars now.
✔ It is possible that some life lived on Mars.
Visualize the Text
Complete the map with the words from the passage.
The Machine Rover: “Curiosity”
as big as a car
Features has computers with memory, communication systems and many
Mission
kinds of cameras
uses a huge parachute to slow down the landing
searching for the important things like oxygen
finding traces of life on the Red Planet
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The Facts of Mars
The Achievements of NASA
The Historical Meaning of “Curiosity”
✔ The Landing of “Curiosity” and Its Mission
2 Why did NASA scientists use a giant parachute?
✔ to make the robot’s landing slower to make the computer work slowly
to make the space shuttle fly fast to make the searching for oxygen fast
3 Which of the following is NOT true about Curiosity?
Curiosity is a car-sized robot.
Curiosity was sent into space on November 26, 2011.
✔ Curiosity has not sent even one picture back to Earth so far.
Curiosity’s mission is to find important things like oxygen.
4 What can be inferred from the passage?
Robots helped NASA scientists.
Curiosity could land by itself.
Humans can live on Mars now.
✔ It is possible that some life lived on Mars.
Visualize the Text
Complete the map with the words from the passage.
The Machine Rover: “Curiosity”
as big as a car
Features has computers with memory, communication systems and many
Mission
kinds of cameras
uses a huge parachute to slow down the landing
searching for the important things like oxygen
finding traces of life on the Red Planet
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