根据下面资料,回答44-47题
In the race to the moon , who came in first ?
You might say the answer is Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin , and Michael Collins , the crew of Apollo 11. Or you could represent for the crew of Apollo 10 , which reached the moon in May1969 and then headed back to Earth without landing.
But there is a much stranger answer to this question , depending on how much you care about humans and what your definition(定义) of reaching the moon might be. Before any people arrived at the moon , other animals had got there first. And unlike the dogs and monkeys that were made famous in early space shots and Earth orbits , the first creatures to reach the moon were a pair of tortoises ,Discovery's Amy Shira Teitel reminded us.
The Soviet spacecraft(航天器) sent the animals around the moon—although not into its orbit—during a mission in the middle of September ,1968. The unmanned(无人驾驶的) craft then returned to Earth and dashed into the Indian Ocean,after which the Russians recovered the craft.
A month later ,Soviet scientists revealed that the spacecraft had been a tiny ship , carrying the tortoises , wine flies , meal worms , plants , seeds , bacteria , and other living matter.
The tortoises , as history records , lost about 10 percent of their body weight , but had a healthy appetite when they returned to Earth. In the following checkups comparing the animals to stay-at-home turtles used as a test control , "most things seemed normal , aside from some vaguely explained minor problems with the liver.
What this all means is that , as Teitel explained , "The first living beings to see an Earthrise from the Moon were Russian tortoises. However,as far as I can tell , the animals were not named.”
What was the biggest change in the tortoises in Paragraph 6?
A They showed abnormal behaviors.
B They had serious liver problems.
C They lost their appetite for food.
D They had obviously lost weight.