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　　Last evening I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a prize for scientific 1 ; I forgot what it was. The announcer, whose name was Ralph Story, said something that caught my 2 . “All great discoveries ,” he said , “are made by people between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.” 3 a little over thirty myself, I wanted to disagree with him. 4 wants to think that he is past the age of making any discovery. The next day I happened to be, in the public library and spent several hours looking up the 5 of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph was right.

　　First I looked at some of the 6 discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries , the famous experiment that proved that bodies of different 7 fall at the same speed, was made by Galieo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that 8 to Nobel Prize when she was 23. Einstein was 26 when he published his world-changing theory of relativity. Well, 9 of that. Yet I 10 if those “best years” were true in other 11 .

　　Then how about the field of 12 ? Surely it needed the wisdom of age to make a good leader. Perhaps it 13 , but look when these people 14 their career. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln 15 the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age? Twenty-six.

　　But why 16 best years come after thirty? After thirty , I 17 , most people do not want to take risks or try 18 ways. Then I thought of people like Shakespeare and Picasso. The former was writing wonderful works at the ripe age of fifty, while the latter was 19 trying new ways of painting when he was ninety!

　　Perhaps there is still 20 for me.

1．

[　　]

A．invention	B．discovery
C．experiment	D．progress

2．

[　　]

A．mind	B．idea
C．a(chǎn)ttention	D．thought

3．

[　　]

A．As	B．Being
C．However	D．Beyond

4．

[　　]

A．Everybody	B．Somebody
C．Nobody	D．Whoever

5．

[　　]

A．names	B．a(chǎn)ges
C．a(chǎn)ddresses	D．education

6．

[　　]

A．modern	B．scientific
C．last	D．oldest

7．

[　　]

A．heights	B．sizes
C．weights	D．things

8．

[　　]

A．led	B．meant
C．stuck	D．referred

9．

[　　]

A．plenty	B．enough
C．much	D．none

10．

[　　]

A．believed	B．trusted
C．wondered	D．a(chǎn)sked

11．

[　　]

A．fields	B．countries
C．courses	D．a(chǎn)ges

12．

[　　]

A．a(chǎn)griculture	B．politics
C．industry	D．society

13．

[　　]

A．is	B．will
C．has	D．does

14．

[　　]

A．finished	B．went
C．started	D．failed

15．

[　　]

A．devoted	B．gave up
C．began	D．led

16．

[　　]

A．don't	B．the
C．can	D．not

17．

[　　]

A．believe	B．know
C．guess	D．a(chǎn)gree

18．

[　　]

A．other	B．new
C．best	D．their

19．

[　　]

A．a(chǎn)lways	B．still
C．seldom	D．enjoying

20．

[　　]

A．discovery	B．problem
C．wish	D．hope

Answer 1

答案：B;C;B;C;B;B;C;A;B;C;A;B;D;C;B;A;C;B;B;D
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