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年职称英语考试补全短文理工试题辅导2023年职称英语考试补全短文理工试题辅导2023Albert Einstein,whose theorieson spacetime andmatterhelped unravelthe secretsof theatom andof theuniverse,was chosenas“Person ofthe Century”by Timemagazineon Sunday.A manwhose veryname issynonymous withscientificgenius,Einstein hase torepresent_1_the floweringof20th centuryscientific thoughtthat setthe stagefor theageof technology.“The worldhas changedfar morein thepast100yearsthan in any othercentury inhistory.The reasonis notpoliticalor economic,but technological-technologies_2_,wrote theoreticalphysicist StephenHawkinginaTime essayexplaining Einsteinssignificance.Clearly,no scientistbetter representsthose advancesthanAlbert Einstein.”Time choseas runner-up PresidentFranklin Roosevelttorepresent thetriumph of freedom anddemocracyover fascism,and MahatmaGandhi asan iconfora centurywhen civiland humanrights becamecrucial factorsinglobal politics.“What wesaw FranklinRoosevelt embodyingthe greatthemeoffreedom1s fightagainst totalitarianism,Gandhipersonifying thegreat themeof individualsstruggling fortheirrights,and Einsteinbeing botha greatgenius andagreat symbolof ascientific revolutionthat broughtwithit amazingtechnological advances.⑶“said TimeMagazineEditor WalterIsaacson.Einstein wasborn inUlm,Germany in
1879.In hisearlyyears,Einstein did not showthe promiseof whathe wastobee.He wasslow tolearn tospeak anddidnotdo wellinelementary school.He couldnot stomachorganized learningandloathed takingexams.Inl905,however,he wasto publisha theorywhich standsasone ofthe mostintricate exlesof humanimagination inhistory.In his“Special Theoryof Relativity,“Einsteindescribed howthe onlyconstant inthe universeis thespeedof light.Everythingelse-mass,weight,space,even timeitself-is avariable.And heoffered theworld hisnow-famous equationenergyequals masstimes thespeed oflight squared-E=mc
2.“Indirectly,relativity pavedthe wayfor anewrelativism inmorality,art andpolitics,“Isaacson wroteinan essay
4.uThere wasless faithin absolutes,not onlyoftime andspace butalso oftruth andmorality.”Einstein1s famousequation wasalso theseed thatledto thedevelopment ofatomic energyand weapons.Inl939,sixyears afterhe fledEuropean fascismand settledatPrinceton University,Einstein,an avowedpacifist,signeda letterto PresidentRoosevelt urgingthe UnitedStates todevelopan atomicbomb beforeNazi Germanydid.Rooseveltheeded theadvice andformed the“Manhattan Project“_5_.Einstein didnot workon theproject.Einstein diedin Princeton,New Jerseyin
1955.A.explaining Time1s choicesB.how hethought ofthe relativitytheoryC.more thanany otherpersonD.that secretlydeveloped thefirst atomicweaponE.that floweddirectly fromadvances inbasic scienceF.that helpedexpand thegrowth offreedomKeyCEFAD。