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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.