大学英语精读第2册 第5课 课文及课后答案.doc

UNIT 5 TEXT 在一个年轻朋友的眼中，爱因斯坦是一位朴素、谦虚的普通人。 教授和溜溜球 托马斯. 李. 巴基…”他开始了一个长长的解释。然后他停止了，发现自己的推理里有一个错误。“不，我猜不是这样的。”他说。好几天他都在探讨着不同的理论，直至我建议打开下玩具看个究竟。他的飞快的不屑一顾的神情告诉我，他对这种应用态度不以为然。他一直未能弄清其中奥妙。 爱因斯坦所不能理解的另一个迷是他的名气。他所发展的理论非常深奥，仅在相对少数的科学家里才能引起反响。尽管如此，他的错别字在文明世界里却家喻户晓。“我有好的思想，其他的人也一样，”他有一次说，“只是因为运气好，我的思想才被人们接受。”他为自己的名声所惑：人们渴望与他见面，陌生人站在街头望着他，科学家们，政界要人们，学子们以及家庭主妇们给他写信。他从来不明白为何自己倍受关注，为何他被作为特殊人物挑选出来。 Seen through the eyes of a young friend Einstein was a simple, modest and ordinary man. The Professor and the Yo-yo Thomas Lee Bucky with Joseph P. Blanm My father was a close friend of Albert Einstein As a shy young visitor to Einsteins home, I was made to feel at ease when Einstein said, I have something to show you. He went to his desk and returned with a Yo-Yo. He tried to show me how it worked but he couldnt make it roll back up the string. When my turn came, I displayed my few tricks and pointed out to him that the incorrectly looped string had thrown the toy off balance. Einstein nodded, properly impressed by my skill and knowledge. Later, I bought a new Yo-Yo and mailed it to the Professor as a Christmas present, and received a poem of thanks. As a boy and then as an adult, I never lost my wonder at the personality that was Einstein. He was the only person I knew who had come to terms with himself and the world around him. He knew what he wanted and he wanted only this: to understand within his limits as a human being the nature of the universe and the logic and simplicity in its functioning. He knew there were answers beyond his intellectual reach. But this did not frustrate him. He was content to go as far as he could. In the 23 years of our friendship, I never saw him show jealousy, vanity, bitterness, anger, resentment, or personal ambition. He seemed immune to these emotions. He was beyond any pretension. Although he corresponded with many of the worlds most important people, his stationery carried only a watermark -W-for Wo