Topic 1 Exquisite Articles-高中英语读本选择性必修第一册

4 EDISON WAS “ADDLED” In the sciences, there have been hundreds of geniuses who aimed straight at the goal from their earliest years, and hundreds who showed no aptitude at al. So it goes. You have the Wright Brothers, who were briliant in engineering in their early teens, and you have Thomas Alva Edison, whose teacher tried to get him out of the class because his brain was “addled”. You have the Nobel Prize physicist Enrico Fermi, who at 17 had read enough mathematics to qualify for a doctor􀆳s degree. And you have the great Albert Schweitzer, who wavered between music and the church until he was 30. Then he started his medical studies. So who􀆳s to say what about youth? Any young boy or girl who knows what he wants to do in life is probably the better off for it. But no teenager needs despair of the future. He has that one special advantage over the greatest man alive—time! If you don􀆳t think time counts, look at Grandma Moses, she never sold a painting til she was 80. Passage A Hawking􀆳s Five Easy Steps for Making Yourself a Genius As we al know, Stephen Hawking writes the book A Brief History of Time that explains the origin of the universe. The book spent 147 weeks on the New York Times Best Seler List and has sold 10 milion copies. He is, most agree, very smart. In his recently published autobiography My Brief History, Hawking offers five life lessons on how to become a genius. 5 1) Don􀆳t miss opportunities by being too cool “We showed an air o