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1、Last evening I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a prize for scientific ___36___; I forgot what it was. The announcer, whose name was Ralph Story, said something that caught my ___37___. “All great discoveries,” he said, “are made by people between the ages of twenty-fi

2、ve and thirty.” ___38___ a little over thirty myself, I wanted to disagree with him. ___39___ 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 ___40___ of famous people and their discoveries, Ra

3、lph was right. First I looked at some of the ___41___ discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries, the famous experiment that proved that bodies of different ___42___ fall at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that ___43___ to Nobel Prize when she

4、was 28. Einstein was 26 when he published his world-changing theory of relativity. Well, ___44___ of that. Yet I ___45___ if those “best years” were true in other ___46___. Then how about the field of ___47___? Surely it needs the wisdom of age to make a good leader. Perhaps it ___48___, but look w

5、hen these people ___49___ their career. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln ___50___ the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age? Twenty-six. But why ___51___ best years come after thirty? After thirty, I ___52___, m

6、ost people do not want to take risks or try ___53___ 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 ___54___ trying new ways of painting when he was ninety years old! Perhaps there is still ___55___

7、for me. 36. A. invention B. discovery C. experience D. progress 37. A. mind B. head C. attention D. name 38. A. For B. Being C. However D. As 39. A. Everybody B. Somebody C. Nobody D. Whoever 40. A. names B. ages C. addresses D. education 41. A. modern B. scientific C. last D.

8、 oldest 42. A. heights B. sizes C. weights D. things 43. A. led B. meant C. stuck D. referred 44. A. plenty B. enough C. much D. none 45. A. understood B. trusted C. wondered D. knew 46. A. fields B. countries C. courses D. ages 47. A. agriculture B. politics C. industry D. so

9、ciety 48. A. is B. will C. has D. does 49. A. finished B. went C. started D. failed 50. A. started B. gave up C. began D. led 51. A. don’t B. the C. can D. not 52. A. believe B. know C. guess D. agree 53. A. other B. new C. best D. their 54. A. always B. still C. seldom D. enjoying 55. A. discovery B. problem C. wish D. hope