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The greatest scientists are remembered not only for their discoveries, but for their characters. To make the biggest imaginative leaps you need not just ____26____ but a particular set of values: courage, honesty, a certain rebelliousness, and ceaseless curiosity. In individuals as different as Galileo, Darwin and Einstein, these values were present. Stephen Hawking, who passed away on March 14th , ____27____this trend: his work distinguished him ____28____ one of the greatest physicists of our generation; his character distinguished him as one of its greatest men.
For us younger physicists, he was a ____29____ figure. His work on black holes had built an elegant bridge between quantum theory and general relativity. And it had shocking implications: that black holes are not completely black—they emit radiation; ____30____ any information falling into a black hole is scrambled and lost forever. One thing is certain: for as long as there is science, the legacy of Stephen Hawking, the scientist and the man, will be remembered.
【題組】26.
(A) cholera
(B) sleuth
(C) intellect
(D) intelligentsia
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