[{"text": "Read the following passage and answer the question nos. 146-150.Extraterrestrial life has so far been the stuff of science fiction. Yet NASA, the American space agency, is taking the idea so seriously that it is pondering how to dispose of its Galileo spacecraft, at present orbiting Jupiter, without harming possible alien lifeforms on one of Jupiters moons, Europa. NASA is worried that Galileo might blunder into Europa, contaminating it with earthly organisms. The best way to stop this happening the agency believes, is to crash Galileo deliberately into Jupiter.", "type": "text_block", "database_type": "", "university": "", "year": "", "unit": "", "shift": "", "subject": "", "chapter": "", "topic": ""}, {"question": "This passage suggests that NASA_______.", "mark": 1.0, "answer": "one", "explanation": "", "options": [{"option": "is certain about extraterrestrial life", "answer": false}, {"option": "believes that talk of extraterrestrial life is fiction", "answer": false}, {"option": "is willing to consider possibility of extraterrestrial life.", "answer": true}, {"option": "is more interested in its spacecraft than its extraterrestrial life.", "answer": false}], "type": "question", "database_type": "qb", "university": "du", "year": "2000-01", "unit": "a", "shift": "", "subject": "e-b", "chapter": "e-40", "topic": "", "title": "This passage suggests that NASA_______.", "full_question": "This passage suggests that NASA_______.

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"}, {"question": "According to the passage, NASA is worried that_______.", "mark": 1.0, "answer": "one", "explanation": "", "options": [{"option": "Its spacecraft may unwillingly harm Jupiter's life forms", "answer": true}, {"option": "NASA astronauts may be harmed by Jupiter's life forms", "answer": false}, {"option": "Its spacecraft may crashland into Jupiter accidentally", "answer": false}, {"option": "NASA should abandon its Jupiter programme\u00a0immediately", "answer": false}], "type": "question", "database_type": "qb", "university": "du", "year": "2000-01", "unit": "a", "shift": "", "subject": "e-b", "chapter": "e-40", "topic": "", "title": "According to the passage, NASA is worried that_______.", "full_question": "According to the passage, NASA is worried that_______.

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"}, {"question": "The phrase 'the stuff of science fiction' means the\u00a0same thing as_______", "mark": 1.0, "answer": "one", "explanation": "", "options": [{"option": "fantastic", "answer": true}, {"option": "convincing", "answer": false}, {"option": "exciting", "answer": false}, {"option": "effective", "answer": false}], "type": "question", "database_type": "qb", "university": "du", "year": "2000-01", "unit": "a", "shift": "", "subject": "e-b", "chapter": "e-40", "topic": "", "title": "The phrase 'the stuff of science fiction' means the\u00a0same thing as_______", "full_question": "The phrase 'the stuff of science fiction' means the\u00a0same thing as_______

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"}, {"question": "NASA is 'pondering' the fate of the Galileo\u00a0spacecraft, in other words, it is_______.", "mark": 1.0, "answer": "one", "explanation": "", "options": [{"option": "speculating", "answer": false}, {"option": "making exact calculations", "answer": false}, {"option": "rejecting", "answer": false}, {"option": "considering seriously", "answer": true}], "type": "question", "database_type": "qb", "university": "du", "year": "2000-01", "unit": "a", "shift": "", "subject": "e-b", "chapter": "e-40", "topic": "", "title": "NASA is 'pondering' the fate of the Galileo\u00a0spacecraft, in other words, it is_______.", "full_question": "NASA is 'pondering' the fate of the Galileo\u00a0spacecraft, in other words, it is_______.

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"}, {"question": "NASA is worried that Galileo might 'blunder' into Jupiter, that is to say, it might", "mark": 1.0, "answer": "one", "explanation": "", "options": [{"option": "end up on the planet by sticking to the right course", "answer": false}, {"option": "end up on the planet accidentally", "answer": false}, {"option": "arrive in the planet by taking an indirect route.", "answer": true}, {"option": "land on the planet after a sustained flight", "answer": false}], "type": "question", "database_type": "qb", "university": "du", "year": "2000-01", "unit": "a", "shift": "", "subject": "e-b", "chapter": "e-40", "topic": "", "title": "NASA is worried that Galileo might 'blunder' into Jupiter, that is to say, it might", "full_question": "NASA is worried that Galileo might 'blunder' into Jupiter, that is to say, it might

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