12.Since the discovery in 1995 of the first exoplanet - a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun - more than 200 others have been found by ground-based observatories.

　　13.Until now the usual method of finding exoplanets has been to detect the wobble their gravity imparts on parent stars.But only giant gaseous planets bigger than Jupiter can be found this way，and they are unlikely to harbour life.

　　14.In the 2010s，ESA plans to launch Darwin，a fleet of four or five interlinked space telescopes that will not only spot small rocky planets，but analyse their atmospheres for signs of biological activity.

　　15.At around the same time，the US space agency，Nasa，will launch Terrestrial Planet Finder，another space telescope designed to locate Earth-like planets.

　　(615 words)

　　Questions：

　　Choose the appropriate letter from A-D for question 1.

　　1.Corot is an instrument which

　　(A) can help to search for certain planets

　　(B) is used to find planets in the orbit

　　(C) can locate planets with human beings

　　(D) can spot any planets with water.

　　Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage? For questions 2-5 write

　　TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

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