Question

Once, Einstein gave a lecture in a university.After his speech, the audience started asking questions.

A girl asked, “Do you think you're a giant of science？”

Einstein said with a smile, “A giant is a person who is tall in height.You see I'm so small, how can I be a giant? Maybe I see a bit farther, only because I stand higher！”

Then a boy asked, “You mentioned you stand higher than the others.It reminds me that you had a talk with a lady on the top of the Alps (阿尔卑斯山)．I don't want to ask what you talked, but I want to know whether you realised you have been a top in the history of science when you stood on the top.”

Looking at the boy carefully, Einstein replied, “Well, my height cannot become a top.And there is no top that no one can get to, so we don't want to be a top, but we want to be a person to climb the top！”

Then he took up a piece of chalk and wrote on the blackboard, “Standing on the top, you are not tall, but even smaller！”

Then he said, “Though I stand tall, in the eyes of the world I'm still small! Finally, I can tell you a sentence, which was the last one I told the lady on the top of the Alps, ‘Any top can be reached, for there is no giant in the world but the one who stands higher！’”

A storm of applause(掌声) sounded.The lady who listened to Einstein's instruction on the Alps that year was no other than Madam Curie!

1.After Einstein's speech in a university, Einstein ________.

A. happened to meet a girl

B. was happy to answer a girl's questions

C. discussed some questions with his students

D. refused to visit his students

2.Einstein didn't think he was a giant of science because ________.

A. he only stood higher and he could see a bit farther

B. he was both small and short

C. he didn't have a clever brain

D. he was short of more intelligence

3.Einstein told the boy ________.

A. he had become one of the tallest persons in science

B. he wanted to be a person to climb to the top of the Alps

C. his height could not become a top because there was no top that nobody could get to

D. his height was not tall enough for a giant

4.According to Einstein's words, we can know his view is that ________.

A. he had already been a giant of science

B. he hadn't got to the highest mountain of science

C. though he was short then, he'd become a person who was tall

D. though he stood tall, in the eyes of the world he was still small

Answer 1