Einstein Named "Person of the Century"
　　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 -- 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 vt.解開 synonymous adj.同義的
　　runner-up 亞軍，第二名 intricate adj.復(fù)雜的
　　icon n.象征;圖符 constant n.常量
　　totalitarianism n.極權(quán)主義 variable n.變量
　　personify vt.象征，體現(xiàn) equation n.等式
　　注釋：
　　1. President Franklin Roosevelt:美國(guó)第32任總統(tǒng)羅斯福(1882-1945)
　　2. Mahatma Gandhi:印度政治和精神領(lǐng)袖、改革家甘地(1869-1948)
　　3. He could not stomach organized learning and loathed taking exams.他無(wú)法忍受一切都安排得死死的教學(xué)，討厭考試。
　　4. avowed pacifist:公開承認(rèn)的和平主義者
　　練習(xí)：
　　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(jì)人類科學(xué)作出的重大貢獻(xiàn)。本段是理論物理學(xué)家史蒂芬·霍金在《時(shí)代》雜志上發(fā)表的一篇評(píng)價(jià)愛因斯坦所作貢獻(xiàn)的文章中的幾句話，他說(shuō)世界在近100年里發(fā)生的改變比歷任何一個(gè)世紀(jì)的改變都大得多。原因不是政治的或經(jīng)濟(jì)的，而是基礎(chǔ)科學(xué)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(gè)科學(xué)家比艾爾伯特·愛因斯坦更能代表這些進(jìn)步。”those在此發(fā)揮了銜接作用。
　　2. E 本段簡(jiǎn)要介紹愛因斯坦早年生平。E說(shuō)：“愛因斯坦在小時(shí)候并未顯示日后會(huì)成為大科學(xué)家的任何天賦。”后一句話實(shí)際上是對(duì)E的詳細(xì)解釋。
　　3. F 本段主要介紹愛因斯坦提出的相對(duì)論。第一句話告訴我們1905年的時(shí)候愛因斯坦發(fā)表一個(gè)人類歷展現(xiàn)出奇巧想象力的理論，第三、第四句話是具體解釋相對(duì)論，F(xiàn)說(shuō), “在他的‘特殊相對(duì)論’中，愛因斯坦描述了為什么宇宙中不多的是光速�！庇纱丝磥�(lái)F放在此處最合適，其中constant和variable意思相反，構(gòu)成詞匯銜接(lexical cohesion)。
　　4. A 本段是伊薩克森在《時(shí)代》雜志上的一篇文章中對(duì)相對(duì)論的深遠(yuǎn)意義所做的評(píng)述，他說(shuō)：“相對(duì)論間接地為道德、藝術(shù)和政治領(lǐng)域中新的相對(duì)主義的出現(xiàn)鋪平了道路。”后一句是對(duì)此的進(jìn)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(guān)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(guó)搶在納粹德國(guó)之前研制原子彈的信上簽了名。D說(shuō)：“羅斯福對(duì)這項(xiàng)建議十分關(guān)注，遂制訂了秘密制造第一顆原子彈的‘曼哈頓計(jì)劃’�！焙笠痪湔f(shuō)愛因斯坦未參與這個(gè)項(xiàng)目，其中the project指的就是the "Manhattan Project"。