Reading passages

217 -According to the passage, so far, ---- .
A) the Apollo spacecraft has brought back several pieces of comets
B) NASA has regularly sent missions to bring back material from outer space
C) the "Stardust" spacecraft has completed some other major missions
D) pieces of a comet haven't been brought back from space by NASA
E) the comet Wild -2 has never come close to the Sun


218 -The passage suggests that the Wild -2 comet --- .
A) came close to the Sun for the first time in 1970
B) travels about 5.1 billion kilometres every seven years
C) was discovered In the 1970s
D) probably consists partly of frozen material
E) is the first comet to come dangerously close to the Earth


219 -Scientists wish to study the comet because it ---- .
A) seldom comes near the Sun
B) is full of extraterritorial material
C) could help them explain how life started
D) is considered to be the oldest comet in the universe
E) may melt if it goes too close to the Sun
In order to avoid the traditional form, writers like the Irishman James Joyce tried to find other structures around which to build their novels. Joyce broke away from the regular beginning, middle, and end technique of earlier writers with his novel 'Ulysses'. Using the Greek mythology contained in The Odyssey', written by Homer, Joyce devised a completely new technique which combined Greek mythology with tales of modern life. In the novel, the adventures of Homer's Ulysses are paralleled to the happenings of one day in the life of a group of characters in Dublin, Ireland. As this novel shows, if a writer actually describes every single thing a character does throughout one day, that one day can easily produce a whole long novel.


220-James Joyce's novel 'Ulysses' --- .
A) is a traditional novel with a beginning, middle and end
B) was a modem translation of Homer's 'Odysseus'
C) revolutionised classical Greek literature
D) was written in one day
E) was meant to be different from novels written up to that time