15.The old lady needs _________ after her shock.

A. to comfort                                             B. be comforted

C. comforting                                            D. comforted

Ⅱ . Cloze:(15%)

Complete the passage by putting in the blanks with the correct choice. Write your correct letter on the Answer Sheet:

By 1914 Einstein had gained world fame. He accepted the offer to be a professor at the Prussian Academy of Science in Berlin. It was an ideal position.   1    soon this peace and quiet were broken by the First World War. Einstein hated violence. The war and its misery affected him deeply. He lost interest in   2    of his research. Only when peace was finally restored in 1918

  3    to get back to work.

It seems remarkable that the intellectuals were such a general appreciation of Einstein’s genius. At a time one science writer   4    this comment: “ The odds are heavily   5    any man being able to do the work in the field of abstract theory that Einstein is doing. But he has overcome these odds two or three times in his lifetime already. If anyone has the right to hope he can solve what to most physicists would seem   6   , he has. He is truly imaginative and original. And he is stubborn enough to hold on to any idea if he thinks it is right, no matter how strange it

  7    seem to the rest of us. If he   8    all these qualities, he could never   9    what he

  10    or   11    the chance of succeeding in what he   12   . ”

In 1940 Einstein became an American citizen and   13    the rest of his life in the United States.

In 1955, Einstein’s life ended at the age of 76. But all men now live in a   14    world because this simple man of genius gave all of his intelligence and heart to his fellowman. He lived not to conquer or destroy   15    to understand.