For a long time in history,numerous scholars have asked the question:what is beauty?As designers update the latest fashions and artists create their masterpieces,what is considered beautiful changes at an alarming pace.Fifty years ago,the full-figured American actress Marilyn Monroe was a symbol of the American aesthetic（美學(xué)的）value; today,many Hollywood actresses different in appearance from Marilyn’s have taken her taken per place.However, aesthetic values not only differ from generation to generation,but do so along cultural lines as well.Often,what is considered hating one civilization is just the aesthetic appeal in another.Thus it is difficult to give an absolute definition of beauty.

As fundamental physicists,my colleagues and I like to believe that we are involved in a search for a beauty that affects definition.The beauty that we search for is not what is set up through the work of people and subject to the tastes,but rather what has been laid down by nature Physics allows its students to look past outer appearance,into a deeper beauty.As a human being,I am attracted by the visual appeal of a wave crashing on the beach.As a physicist, however I am able to see the deeper beauty of the physical laws that govern such a phenomenon.

In truth,since Albert Einstein put forward the idea that there might be one main physical theory that governs the universe,aesthetics,have become a driving force in modern physics.Einstein and other later physicists have discovered that:Nature,as its most fundamental level,is beautifully constructed.The extraordinary simplicity of the laws that govern the universes is really breathtaking.As Einstein said, it would seem more likely that we should find ourselves living in a "disorderly world,in no way apprehensible through thinking".Yet we are now closer than ever to a full understanding of the universe's beautiful clockwork.As new discoveries and technologies allow us to examine the physical world on deeper and deeper levels, we find that the beauty itself becomes much deeper.

1.The reference to" Marilyn Monroe" in paragraph 2 mainly serves to .

A. show there is no fixed definition of aesthetics

B. provide an example of today's beauty standards

C. compare traditions of the East to the west

D. discuss her abilities as an actress

2.When appreciating a wave crashing on the beach,a physicist sees the beauty of .

A. the visual attraction B. the powerful sounds

C. the lovely creatures D. the physical laws behind

3.Why are Albert Einstein's words mentioned in paragraph 3 ?

A. To detail the functions of physical laws.

B. To highlight the range of Einstein's influence.

C. To stress the very simplicity of the laws of the universe

D. To show that Einstein doubted the beauty of physics.

4.the passage is mainly to .

A. emphasize the influence of physics

B. present a special way of seeing beauty

C. discuss the awareness of across-culture

D. argue the traditional ideas on value

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