Question

根据所给的语境，在空白处填入合适的单词，使得上下语义连贯通顺。每空一词。

A successful scientist is generally a good observer who   1   full use of the facts he observes. He doesn’t accept ideas which are not   2   on obvious facts,   3   he refuses to accept authority (权威) as the only reason for truth. He always checks ideas carefully and make experiments to   4 

them.

Galileo, however,   5   lived   6   1564 and 1642, was the greatest of the great men. Before him, learned men believed that larger bodies fell more   7   towards the earth than   8   ones. But Galileo, going to the   9   of the leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two solid stones and proved it was wrong. It was his spirit that has led   10   all the discoveries of modern science.

Answer 1

1. makes                2. based               3. and/so/thus            4. prove 

5. who                  6. between            7. quickly/rapidly        8. smaller  

9. top                  10. to