General Studies · Verbal Reasoning
Read the passage carefully and judge the statement based on the details provided. Passage: Using knives and shears, a pair of Russian spacewalkers cut samples of material around a mysterious hole in a Soyuz spacecraft docked on the International Space Station that a Moscow official suggested could have been deliberately sabotaged. The 2 mm cavity on the Soyuz spaceship docked at the ISS caused an air leak detected in August, two months after the craft's last voyage. Roscosmos spa ce agency said the aim was to discover whether the small but dangerous hole had been made on Earth or in space, to cut away the insulation covering the hole, take out a sample of the material around it to analyse and put new insulation over the area. Roscosmos chief stated that an investigation had ruled out a manufacturing error. Statement: The air leak caused by the cavity on the Soyuz spaceship was detected two months after the craft's last voyage.
- 1The statement is probably true
- 2The statement cannot be determined
- 3The statement is definitely false
- 4The statement is definitely true✓
Correct answer
The statement is definitely true
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