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Instructions: Read each question carefully and choose the best answer.

1. What is this passage mostly about? 4. How did people on Earth

feel when they saw the first
A where people have traveled photographs of the outer planets?
B whether alien life exists
A afraid
C the space probes named
Pioneer and Voyager B amazed
D what space probes have C satisfied
learned about the outer planets D bored
2. What does the word investigate 5. Which outer planets have moons?
most likely mean?
A Jupiter and Saturn
A preserve B Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn
B get rid of C Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune
C find out about D all of them
D ignore 6. One of Jupiter’s moons is named
3. Which space probes took the first  .
up-close color photographs of
the outer planets?
A Titan
B Europa
A Pioneer and Voyager
C Uranus
B Galileo and Cassini
D Galileo
C Europa and Titan
D Uranus and Neptune

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7. What does the word fragile most
likely mean?
A strong
B extraordinary
C easy to see
D easy to break
8. What did Galileo and Cassini do
when their work was done?
A The kept on flying into outer
space.
B They flew back to Earth.
C They flew to Jupiter and Saturn.
D They destroyed themselves.
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9. Why do you think scientists didn’t
want Earth germs or bacteria to
survive and spread?
A If alien life exists, Earth bacteria
could harm it.
B If we send people to the outer
planets, those people could get
sick from the bacteria there.
C If alien life exists, it could find
out about humans by looking at
the Earth bacteria left behind.
D The bacteria might harm future
space probes.
10. Do you think scientists will
continue sending probes into
space?
A Yes, because they want to find
out if alien life exists.
B Yes, because people want to
migrate there.
C No, because it’s too dangerous.
D No, because it costs too much.
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Answer Key

1.
D Main Idea
2.
C Derived Meaning
3.
A Factual
4.
B Inferential
5.
D Inferential
6.
B Factual
7.
D Derived Meaning
8.
D Factual
9.
A Inferential
10.
A Inferential

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