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Yesterday evening I was watching the evening news on TV. The news was about a prize for scientific discoveries. The 21 said something that caught my 22 . “All great discoveries,” he said, “are made by people between the ages of 25 and 30.” Being a little over 30 myself, I wanted to 23 with him. Nobody wants to think that he has passed the age of making any 24 . The next day I went to the public library, spending several hours, and 25 to find the ages of famous people and their discoveries. The announcer was right!

First, I looked at some of the 26 discoveries. One of the earliest, the famous one that 27 that bodies of different weights 28 at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that led to a Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he 29 his world-changing Theory of Relativity. Well, 30 of that. Yet I wondered if those “best years” were true in other 31 .

Then how about this in 32 ? Surely it needs the wisdom of 33 to make a good leader. Perhaps it does, but look when these people 34 their careers. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln 35 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 30? After 30, I 36 , most people don’t want to take risks or try new ways. Then I thought of people 37 Shakespeare and Picasso. The 38 was writing wonderful 39 at the late age of 50, 40 the latter was still trying new ways of painting when he was 90!

Perhaps there is still hope for me.

21. A. announcer B. conductor C. speaker D. hostess

22. A. mind B. care C. attention D. surprise

23. A. disagree B. talk C. meet D. advise

24. A. chance B. discovery C. research D. fortune

25. A. happened B. wanted C. succeeded D. managed

26. A. last B. scientific C. oldest D. modern

27. A. found B. proved C. doubted D. showed

28. A. disappear B. move C. drop D. fall

29. A. invented B. improved C. published D. made

30. A. plenty B. enough C. much D. all

31. A. fields B. science C. courses D. ages

32. A. election B. politics C. leaders D. society

33. A. age B. brain C. living D. leadership

34. A. finished B. won C. started D. defeated

35. A. led B. devoted C. began D. gave up

36. A. guess B. know C. believe D. agree

37. A. as B. to be C. like D. about

38. A. first B. writer C. poet D. former

39. A. painting B. idioms C. fiction D. works

40. A. when B. while C. who D. after

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