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2015年职称英语考试补全短文练习题 Einstein Named Person of Century Albert Einstein, whose theories on space time and matter helped unravel the secrets of the atom and of the universe, was chosen as Person of the Century by Time magazine on Sunday. A man whose very name is synonymous with scientific genius, Einstein has come to represent more than any other person the flowering of 20th century scientific though that set the stage for the age of technology. The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic, but technologicaltechnologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science, wrote theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in a Time essay explaining Einsteins significance. _____ _____. Time chose as runner-up President Franklin Roosevelt to represent the triumph of freedom and democracy over fascism, and Mahatma Gandhi as an icon for a century when civil and human rights became crucial factors in global politics. What we saw was Franklin Roosevelt embodying the great theme of freedoms fight against totalitarianism, Gandhi personifying the great theme of individuals struggling for their rights, and Einstein being both a great genius and a great symbol of a scientific revolution that brought with it amazing technological advances that helped expand the growth of freedom, said Time Magazine Editor Walter Isaacson. | 
