完形填空 The other day I was watching the evening news on television. The news was a

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The other day I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a prize for some scientific 1 ; I forget what it really was. The announcer said something that caught my 2 “All great discoveries” he said,“are made by people between the ages of twenty five and 3 ”. Being a little over thirty myself , I wanted to disagree with him. Nobody wants to think that he is past the age of making any discoveries. The next day I happened to be in the city library and spent several hours 4 the ages of famous people and their discoveries.

First I looked at some of the 5 discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries, the famous experiment that proved that bodies of different 6 fall at the same speed , was made by Galileo when he was twenty six. Madame Curie started her research that 7 to a Nobel Prize when she was twenty-eight. Einstein was twenty-six 8 he published his theory of relativity. Well , enough of that. 9 I wondered if those 'best years' were true in other  10 .

Then how about the field of  11 ? Surely it  12 the wisdom of age to make a good leader. Perhaps it does, but look  13 these people started their careers. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of twenty-six . Abraham Lincoln  14 the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government  15 what age? Twenty-six.

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

Perhaps there is still  20 for me.

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A．inventionB．report C．experimentD．discovery

2．

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A．earsB．notice C．attentionD．observation

3．

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A．thirtyB．twenty C．fortyD．fifty

4．

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A．looking upB．checking up C．searching forD．asking for

5．

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A．generalB．scientific C．naturalD．social

6．

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A．heightsB．sizes C．weightsD．things

7．

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A．referredB．turned C．gotD．led

8．

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A．afterB．when C．beforeD．though

9．

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A．YetB．Thus C．ThereforeD．Unfortunately

10．

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A．waysB．courses C．branchesD．fields

11．

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A．revolutionB．politics C．historyD．society

12．

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A．neededB．spent C．tookD．cost

13．

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A．whyB．when C．howD．where

14．

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A．devotedB．spent C．madeD．gave up

15．

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A．atB．by C．ofD．with

16．

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A．allB．many C．mostD．few

17．

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A．otherB．new C．braveD．special

18．

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A．andB．or C．whileD．but

19．

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A．writingB．painting C．thinkingD．camping

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A．discoveryB．energy C．imaginationD．hope

试题答案

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