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In 1915 Einstein made a trip to G ttingen to give some lectures at the invitation of the mathematical physicist David Hilbert. He was particularly eager—too eager, it would turn  62    —to explain all the intricacies of relativity to him. The visit was a triumph, and he said to a friend excitedly, “I was able to   63   Hilbert of the general theory of relativity. ”

     64   all of Einstein’s personal turmoil (焦躁) at the time, a new scientific anxiety was about to    65  . He was struggling to find the right equations that would   66   his new concept of gravity,    67   that would define how objects move    68   space and how space is curved by objects. By the end of the summer, he   69   the mathematical approach he had been    70   for almost three years was flawed. And now there was a   71   pressure. Einstein discovered to his __72   that Hilbert had taken what he had learned from Einstein’s lectures and was racing to come up   73   the correct equations first.

     It was an enormously complex task. Although Einstein was the better physicist, Hilbert was the better mathematician. So in October 1915 Einstein   74   himself into a month-long frantic endeavor in   75   he returned to an earlier mathematical strategy and wrestled with equations, proofs, corrections and updates that he   76   to give as lectures to Berlin’s Prussian Academy of Sciences on four   77   Thursdays.

     His first lecture was delivered on Nov. 4. 1915, and it explained his new approach,   78   he admitted he did not yet have the precise mathematical formulation of it. Einstein also took time off from   79  revising his equations to engage in an awkward fandango (方丹戈双人舞) with his competitor Hilbert. Worried  80   being scooped (抢先), he sent Hilbert a copy of his Nov. 4 lecture. “I am   81   to know whether you will take kindly to this new solution, ”Einstein noted with a touch of defensiveness.

62.  A) up               B) over               C) out                D) off

63.  A) convince          B) counsel             C) persuade           D) preach

64.  A)Above             B)Around             C)Amid             D)Along

65.  A) emit             B) emerge             C) submit             D) submerge

66.  A) imitate           B) ignite              C) describe             D) ascribe

67.  A) ones             B) those               C) all                 D) none

68.  A) into              B) beyond            C) among              D) through

69.  A) resolved          B) realized            C) accepted             D) assured

70.  A) pursuing          B) protecting          C) contesting           D) contending

71.  A) complex           B) compatible          C) comparative          D) competitive

72.  A) humor            B) horror             C) excitement           D) extinction

73.  A) to                B) for                      C) with                D) against

74.  A) threw             B) thrust              C) huddled             D) hopped

75.  A) how              B) that              C) what                D) which

76.  A) dashed            B) darted            C) rushed               D) reeled

77.  A) successive           B) progressive        C) extensive            D) repetitive

78.  A) so                 B) since             C) though              D) because

79.  A) casually             B) coarsely           C) violently            D) furiously

80.  A) after                B) about              C) on                  D) in

81.  A) curious           B) conscious           C) ambitious            D) ambiguous