题目内容
Last week I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a prize for some scientific discovery. I forgot what it was. The announcer, his name was Ralph Story, said something that caught my attention. “All great discoveries,” he said, “are made by people between the ages of twenty-four and thirty.” 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 discovery. The next day I happened to be in the public library and spent several hours looking up the ages of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph was right.
First I looked at some of the scientific discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries, the famous experiment that proved that bodies of different weights fall at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was twenty-six. Madame Curie started her research that led to a Nobel Prize when she was twenty-eight. Einstein was twenty-six when he published his world-changing theory of relativity. Well, enough of that. Yet I wondered if those “best years” were true in other fields.
Then how about the field of politics? Surely it took the wisdom of age to make a good leader. Perhaps it does, but look when these people started their careers. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of twenty-six. Abraham Lincoln gave up the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age? Twenty-six!
But why don't best years come after thirty? After thirty, I guess, most people do not want to take risks or try new 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 still trying new ways of painting when he was ninety! Perhaps there is still hope for me.
(1) What did the writer do to prove Ralph was wrong?
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A．He compared scientific discoveries by young people.
B．He went to the bookstore to buy a lot of books.
C．He searched for useful information in books.
D．He looked at some discoveries by old people.
(2) After his research, the writer ________.
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A．believed what Ralph said and became uneasy
B．argued more forcefully with the TV announcer
C．was sure that he was right to disagree with Ralph
D．doubted more strongly about Ralph's words
(3) How did the writer most probably feel in the end?
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(4) What can we draw from the passage?
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A．Some old people have also made scientific discoveries.
B．People can not make useful discoveries when old.
C．People at twenty-five or thirty are creative.
D．People can be creative at all ages but young people are better.
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