小学关于航天的英语阅读理解 The Chang’e 5 mission has successfully returned to Earth. This mission made China only the third country to have been able to bring home lunar samples. On November 24, 2020, the Chang’e 5 spacecraft was launched via the Long March 5 rocket. The mission landed on the lunar surface on December 1. It collected the samples the day after. Then, on December 3, the spacecraft carrying the lunar samples was launched into an orbit around the moon. On December 17, it safely landed in Inner Mongolia with the samples. The spacecraft landed in the “Ocean of Storms” on the near side of the moon. The rocks and soil near there are only 1.2 billion years old. So the lunar samples should be the youngest ever returned to Earth! By studying the samples, we can better know the moon’s history. It can also shed new light on how Earth and our solar system evolved . 1. China has become the ______ country to have brought home lunar samples. A.first B.second C.third 2. The Chang’e 5 mission collected the moon samples on ______. A.December 1 B.December 2 C.December 3 3. The lunar samples that Chang’e 5 brought back are the ______ to have ever been brought to Earth. A.youngest B.heaviest C.oldest 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/321aae2ac181e53a580216fc700abb68a982add2.html