Question

  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 be?tween the ages of twenty-five and thirty. " Being a little over thirty myself,I wan?ted to 3        with him. Nobody 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 4        the ages of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph was 5      . First I looked at some of the 6        discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries,the 7        experiment that proved that bodies of different weight fall at the same speed,was made by Galileo when he was 26,Madam Curie started her research that 8        to the Nobel Prize when she was 28.        Einstein was 26 when he 9        his world-changing theory of relativity. Well,enough of that. Yet I 10        if those "best years" were true in other 11      . Then how about the field of 12     ？Surely it needs the wisdom of 13 to make a good leader. Perhaps it does,but look when these people 14        their ca?reer. 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 govern?ment. At what age? Twenty-five.

  But 16        don't 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 had wonderful works at the ripe age of fifty,19        the latter was still trying new ways of painting when he was ninety!Perhaps there is still 20        for me.

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

2. A. mind   B. idea   C. attention   D. thought

3. A. disagree   B. deal   C. talk   D. fight

4. A. for   B. into   C. up   D. at

「) .A. clever   B. right   C. different   D. simple

6. A. modern   B. scientific   C. wonderful   D. old

7. A. practical   B. further   C. famous   D. boring

8. A. led   B. fell   C. stuck   D. referred

9. A. challenged   B. learned   C. mastered   D. published 

10. A. believed   B. thought

   C. wondered   D. understood 

11.A. fields   B. countries   C. people   D. ages 

12.A. agriculture   B. politics   C. industry   D. society 

13.A. thinking   B. living   C. knowledge   D. age 

14.A. finished   B. went   C. started   D. failed 

15.A. devoted   B. gave up   C. began   D. turned over 

16.A. why   B. how   C. when   D. what 

17.A. say   B. know   C. guess   D. count 

18.A. strange   B. difficult   C. best   D. new 

19.A. but   B. while   C. or   D. so 

20.A. space   B. problem   C. wish   D. hope

Answer 1

[文章大意]本文是一篇記敘文.。文章講述了"我"看了電視新聞后，不相信自己巳經(jīng)超過了能創(chuàng)造的年齡。后來通過在圖書館査閱資料，"我"終于在文學和繪畫藝術上找到了突破口，從而找到了希望。

1. D從后面出現(xiàn)的great discoveries可知答案。

2. C catch one's attention引起某人的注意。

3. A作為30歲出頭的"我"，"我"不同意他的看法。沒人愿意相信他自己已經(jīng)超過了能夠進行創(chuàng)造的年齡。

4. C第二天"我"恰巧在公共圖書館，于是花了幾個小時的時間查閱了名人的年齡和他們的發(fā)現(xiàn)。

5. B結果發(fā)現(xiàn)Ralph說的是對的。

6. B由下文所舉的例子可知，本段主要敘述了"一些科學發(fā)現(xiàn)"。

7. C證明不同重量的物體以相同的速度下落是伽利略在26 歲時所做的一項著名的實驗。

8. A lead to導致。

9. D愛因斯坦在26歲時發(fā)表了他的改變世界的相對論理論。 

10. C然而"我"想知道那些適合創(chuàng)造的"最佳年齡"是否在其他領域也適用。 

11. A由下文可知，此處應為fields。field領域。

12. B根據(jù)后文的leader及'Winston Churchill和Abraham Lincoln的例子可知選B. 意思是"在政治領域情形又如何呢？" 

13. D這里的意思是"一個好的領導需要歲月(積累) 的智慧"。 

14. C這些人什么時候開始他們的事業(yè)。 

15. B林肯放棄律師職業(yè)，被選人政府時是26歲。 

16. A為什么適合發(fā)明創(chuàng)造的最佳年齡不在30歲以后呢？ 

17. C "我"猜想，大多數(shù)人在30歲后不想冒險或嘗試新的思維方式。 

18. D解析見上題。 

19. B此處while表示前后兩種情況的對比。前者在50歲時才有精彩的作品，而后者在90歲時還在嘗試新的W法。 

20. D通過 下面文學和繪畫藝術領域的例子，作者有了信心，覺得自己也許還有希望。