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21. It is understood from the passage that the meteorite found in Morocco …
A) was too contaminated to be of any real use.
B) is the first meteorite from Mars to be seen on the Earth.
C) was a part of larger meteorite that crashed into the Earth.
D) is a very rare kind, which can be valuable to scientists.
22. It is pointed out in the passage that …
A) Tissint was one of the meteorites that were actually seen while falling.
B) other meteorites that preceded Tissint were quite similar to it in size.
C) the meteorite is one of the 41,000 that originated from Mars.
D) the Natural History Museum took possession of the meteorite as soon as it landed on the Earth.
23. According to the passage, scientists …
A) claim that Tissint gives clues about the meteorites expected to hit the Earth.
B) are examining the meteorite to reveal whether microbes could survive it.
C) believe there may well be fossils in the rock.
D) have unfortunately failed to identify the origin of Tissint.
24. Dr Tony Irving believes that …
A) it is almost impossible to discover to remnants of living things.
B) Tissint could say more about secrets of Mars.
C) the meteorite was not valuable for scientists.
D) researchers` chance to find water from Tissint is useless.


The earliest intelligence test was designed to place children in appropriate school classes. At the beginning of the 20th century school authorities in Paris asked the psychologist Alfred Binet to devise a method of picking out children who were unable to learn at a normal rate. Binet went on to develop a method that could measure the intelligence of every child-dull, bright, or normal. Binet realized that a person`s ability to solve problems was an indication of intelligence. He found that complex problems, especially those involving abstract thinking, were best for sorting out bright and dull students. Problem-solving ability grows rapidly during childhood. Because of this, Binet decided to make an age scale of intelligence ad chose specific tasks for each age level.