题目内容
2. I think the dictionary published this year is worthy of (buy) .
2. being bought
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
6. The eagle (俯冲) and caught the little bird.
8. You had better turn off the bicycle lights to ( conservation) the batteries.
2. Would you mind if I turn down the radio?
Would you mind the radio?
7. The girl's (educate) in a simple environment was what her parents wished for.
4. 因为受到了深深的伤害,她不愿意见她的父亲。
,she was unwilling to see her father.
8. These pancakes made by my mother are really (好吃的) .
5. She actively p in local politics.