2016職稱英語考試綜合類補全短文練習(5)
2016職稱英語考試綜合類補全短文練習匯總,供考生參考。
Albert Einstein, whose theories on space time and matter helped unravel the secrets of the atom and of the universe, was chosen as "Person of the Century" by Time magazine on Sunday.
A man whose very name is synonymous with scientific genius,Einstein has come to represent more than any other person the flowering of the 20th century scientific thought that set the stage for the age of technology.
"The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic,but technological 一 technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. ” wrote theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in a Time essay explaining Einstein's significance. (1)
Time chose as runner-up President Franklin Roosevelt1 to represent the triumph of freedom and democracy over fascism, and Mahatma Gandhi2 as an icon for a century when civil and human rights became crucial factors in global politics. 、
"What we saw was Franklin Roosevelt embodying the great theme of freedom's fight against totalitarianism, Gandhi personifying the great theme of individuals struggling for their rights, and Einstein being both a great genius and a great symbol of a scientific revolution that brought with it amazing technological advances that helped expand the growth of freedom. ” said Time Magazine Editor Walter Isaacson.
Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany in 1879. (2) He was slow to learn to speak and did not do well in elementary school. He could not stomach organized learning and loathed taking exams3 ?
In 1905, however, he was to publish a theory which stands as one of the most intricate examples of human imagination in history. (3) Everything else ― mass,weight, space, even time itself ― is a variable. And he offered the world his now-famous equation : energy equals mass times the speed of light squared ― E = mc2.
(4) "There was less faith in absolutes, not only of time and space but also of truth and morality."
Einstein's famous equation was also the seed that led to the development of atomic energy and weapons. In 1939, six years after he fled European fascism and settled at Princeton University, Einstein,an avowed pacifist4,signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the United States to develop an atomic bomb before Nazi Germany did. (5) Einstein did not work on the project.
Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1955.
詞匯:
unravel 解開 personify 象征,體現(xiàn)
synonymous 同義的 intricate 復雜的
runner-up 亞軍,第二名 constant 常量
icon 象征;圖符 variable 變量
totalitarianism 極權 equation 等式
注釋:
1.President Franklin Roosevelt:美國第 32 任總統(tǒng)羅斯福(1882―1945)
2.Mahatma Gandhi:印度政治和精神領袖、改革家甘地(1869―1948)
3.He could not stomach organized learning and loathed taking exams.他無法忍受一切都安排得 死死的教學,討厭考試。
4.avowed pacifist:公開承認的和平主義者
練習:
A "Indirectly, relativity paved the way for a new relativism in morality, art and politics. ” Isaacson wrote in an essay explaining Time's choices.
B How he thought of the relativity theory influenced the general public's view about Albert Einstein.
C ” Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein. ”
D Roosevelt heeded the advice and formed the "Manhattan Project" that secretly developed the first atomic weapon.
E In his early years, Einstein did not show the promise of what he was to become.
F In his “ Special Theory of Relativity ”,Einstein described how the only constant in the universe is the speed of light.
答案與題解:
1.C本文主要講愛因斯坦為20世紀人類科學作出的重大貢獻。本段是理論物理學家史蒂 芬?霍金在《時代》雜志上發(fā)表的一篇評價愛因斯坦所作貢獻的文章中的幾句話,他說世界 在近100年里發(fā)生的改變比歷史上任何一個世紀的改變都大得多。原因不是政治的或經(jīng)濟 的,而是基礎科學的發(fā)展直接引發(fā)的科技。這兩句話并未提及愛因斯坦,因此此處選C最合 適:“很顯然,沒有哪個科學家比艾爾伯特?愛因斯坦更能代表這些進步?!眛hose在此發(fā)揮了 銜接作用。
2.E本段簡要介紹愛因斯坦早年生平。E說:“愛因斯坦在小時候并未顯示日后會成為大科 學家的任何天賦?!焙笠痪湓拰嶋H上是對E的詳細解釋。
3.F本段主要介紹愛因斯坦提出的相對論。第一句話告訴我們1905年的時候愛因斯坦發(fā)表 一個人類歷史上展現(xiàn)出最具奇巧想象力的理論,第三、第四句話是具體解釋相對論,F(xiàn)說: “在他的‘特殊相對論’中,愛因斯坦描述了為什么宇宙中唯一不多的是光速。”由此看來F 放在此處最合適,其中constant和variable意思相反,構成詞匯銜接(>\化01 cohesion)。
4.A本段是伊薩克森在《時代》雜志上的一篇文章中對相對論的深遠意義所做的評述,他說: “相對論間接地為道德、藝術和政治領域中新的相對主義的出現(xiàn)鋪平了道挺。”后一句是對此 的進一步解釋。 、
5.D本段主要講愛因斯坦與原子能和原子武器發(fā)展的關系。前一句告訴我們愛因斯坦1939 年在一封給羅斯??偨y(tǒng)的敦促美國搶在納粹德國之前研制原子彈的信上簽了名。D說:“羅 斯福對這項建議十分關注,遂制訂了秘密制造第一顆原子彈的‘曼哈頓計劃’?!焙笠痪湔f愛 因斯坦未參與這個項目,其中the project指的就是the “Manhattan Project"。
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