_____ MAMMALS HAVE HAIR AT SOME TIME IN THEIR LIVES, THOUGH IN CER...

24. _____ mammals have hair at some time in their lives, though in certain whales it is present only

before birth.

A. Most B. The most C. Most of which D. In most of the

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the

word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

The Planets of Jupiter

The largest of the giant gas planets, Jupiter, with a volume 1,300 times greater than Earth’s,

contains more than twice the mass of all the other planets combined. It is thought to be a gaseous

and fluid planet without solid surfaces, Had it been somewhat more massive, Jupiter might have

attained internal temperatures as high as the ignition point for nuclear reactions, and it would have

flamed as a star in its own right. Jupiter and the other giant planets are of a low-density type quite

distinct from the terrestrial planets: they are composed predominantly of such substances as

hydrogen, helium, ammonia, and methane, unlike terrestrial planets. Much of Jupiter’s interior

might be in the form of liquid, metallic hydrogen, Normally, hydrogen is a gas, but under pressures

of millions of kilograms per square centimeter, which exist in the deep interior of Jupiter, the

hydrogen atoms might lock together to form a liquid with the properties of a metal. Some scientists

believe that the innermost core of Jupiter might be rocky, or metallic like the core of Earth.

Jupiter rotates very fast, once every 9.8 hours. As a result, its clouds, which are composed

largely of frozen and liquid ammonia, have been whipped into alternating dark and bright bands that

circle the planet at different speeds in different latitudes. Jupiter’s puzzling Great Red Spot changes

size as it hovers in the Southern Hemisphere. Scientists speculate it might be a gigantic hurricane,

which because of its large size (the Earth could easily fit inside it), lasts for hundreds of years.

Jupiter gives off twice as much heat as it receives from the Sun. Perhaps this is primeval heat or

beat generated by the continued gravitational contraction of the planet. Another star like

characteristic of Jupiter is its sixteen natural satellites, which, like a miniature model of the Solar

System, decrease in density with distance from rocky moons close to Jupiter to icy moons farther

away. If Jupiter were about 70 times more massive, it would have become a star, Jupiter is the best-

preserved sample of the early solar nebula, and with its satellites, might contain the most important

clues about the origin of the Solar System.