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Free Admission to Hundreds of Museums Sept. 25
What a weekend! This Saturday, Sept. 25, hundreds of U.S. museums are admission free for the Smithsonian’s annual Museum Day.
Unlike previous Museum Day celebrations, you must sign up for a free ticket that admits two people to any of the participating museums. That means filling out a form and having the ticket emailed to you. Not bad for a free offer that will give you admission to museums such as the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and the Air & Space Museum in San Diego.

Free Books for Kids @ Barnes & Noble!
If your kids love to read — and we hope they do! — be sure to sign them up for Barnes & Noble’s summer reading programs so they can earn a free book!
It’s easy for kids ages 12 and under to participate. For Barnes & Noble’s Passport to Summer Reading program, just download and print out your passport. Read any eight books, make a list of them on the back of the passport and bring it to any Barnes & Noble by September 7. Choose your free book from the list.

FREE Night of Theater Across the U.S. in October
It’s the annual run of the Free Night of Theater, when hundreds of theaters in 120 U.S. cities give away thousands of tickets to local productions. 
While the kickoff date is October 15, many of the theaters start releasing their free tickets by Oct.1 or in waves during the month of October for performance dates throughout the month. Ticket seekers are limited to two tickets for one performance.
Find your city on the Free Night of Theater Website and check the listings for performances, their dates and their ticket giveaway times and locations.

64. What is new about this year’s Museum Day?
A. People will get free tickets online.         
B. Two museums offer free admission.
C. People must buy tickets for visiting a museum.   
D. People can visit museums online and get a small gift.
65. The main purpose of the passage is to___________.
  A. introduce ways to save money                 B. help people who are very poor
  C. give guidance on how to have some fun         D. provide information about free things to do
66. How can kids get a free book?
A. By reading eighty books at any Barnes & Noble.
B. By downloading and printing out a passport before October.
C. By signing up for a summer reading program and choosing one of the books they have read.
D. By signing up for a winter reading program and make a list of the books.
67. Which of the following shows the similarity between Museum Day and Free Night of Theater?
A. They last for the same length of time.           B. The same number of free tickets is given away.
C. The tickets can be used in any U.S. city.         D. They take place once a year.

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Mars was the first planet that humans attempted to get to. Since the 1960’s, scientists have been working to learn more information about the Mars’ past, We now know that Mars was once a warm, wet place with great oceans and deep rivers. We also know that about 3.7 billion years ago, all that water disappeared when the planet lost its air. But why did the atmosphere on Mars change so greatly?    
NASA had launched the MAVEN spacecraft in the hope of answering that very question. MAVEN will study the remains of Mars’ air and help scientists figure out what became of the rest of it．    
The spacecraft was launched on Monday, November 18, 2013, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The trip to Mars takes about 10 months. and MAVEN is scheduled to go into orbit in September 2014. It is the first spacecraft created with the purpose of studying Mars’ atmosphere. Its wings measures 37.5 feet not quite the length of a school bus, and it weighs 1991 pounds about the same amount as a small car. MAVEN is equipped with eight different tools to measure and study the planet’s atmosphere. To collect information, it will fly in orbit as fast as 3278 miles per hour, and as slow as 93 miles per hour.     
Once it arrived at Mars, MAVEN will have plenty of company. The spacecraft Curiosity is still walking around the planet’s rocky surface, studying the geology, chemistry and possible biology there. NASA currently has a number of spacecrafts getting unique views of Mars with powerful cameras and telescopes. These missions are all slow, steady steps forward to discover Mars secret past. While the results may not be revealed for some time, an exciting exploration is on the way.

68．We can learn from the first paragraph that________
A．all the scientists wanted to live on Mars        
B．people have had a better knowledge of Mars nowadays
C．spaceships have been sent up to Mars since 1960s
D．all the water on Mars has been gone for ten billion years 
69．The MAVEN spacecraft has been launched with the purpose of________
A．analyzing the change of the atmosphere on Mars    B．assisting Curiosity in studying the surface of Mars.
C. analyzing what is contained in Mars’ air           D．checking whether water still exists on Mars  
70．It can be inferred from, the text that__________．
A．many different tasks will be given to MAVEN when it lands on Mars 
B．many spacecrafts are working around Mars to study its water 
C．more wonderful things about Mars will be found in the future
D．more spacecraft will be sent up to help Curiosity
71．What is the best title of this text?
A．A new finding on Mars               B．A new spacecraft sent to Mars
C．The rapid development of Mars        D．The great change of the Mars’ atmosphere 
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