TaylorSwift1989
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Wegener left behind a few published works but, as was standard practice, these reported the results of his work – not the journey he took to reach that point. Only a few hundred of the many thousands of letters he wrote and received in his lifetime have survived and he didn’t keep notebooks or diaries that recorded his life and activities. He was not active (with a few exceptions) in scientific societies, and did not seek to find influence or advance his ideas through professional contacts and politics, spending most of his time at home in his study reading and writing, or in the field collecting observations.
Some famous scientists, such as Newton, Darwin, and Einstein, left mountains of written material behind, hundreds of notebooks and letters numbering in the tens of thousands. Others, like Michael Faraday, left extensive journals of their thoughts and speculations, parallel to their scientific notebooks. The more such material a scientist leaves behind, the better chance a biographer has of forming an accurate picture of how a scientist’s ideas took shape and evolved.
I am firmly of the opinion that most of us, Wegener included, are not in any real sense the authors of our own lives. We plan, think, and act, often with apparent freedom, but most of the time our lives ‘happen to us’, and we only retrospectively turn this happenstance into a coherent narrative of fulfilled intentions. This book, therefore, is a story both of the life and scientific work that Alfred Wegener planned and intended and of the life and scientific work that actually ‘happened to him’. These are, as I think you will soon see, not always the same thing.
40 What is Greene’s main point in the final paragraph?
A It is not enough in life to have good intentions.
B People need to plan carefully if they want to succeed.
C People have little control over many aspects of their lives.
B It is important that people ensure they have the freedom to act.
Đầu tiên câu 40 mọi người chọn gì, cá nhân mình thấy, nếu skim xong ta sẽ khoanh vùng đc câu đc bôi đậm, và ban đầu mình nghĩ câu bôi đậm nghĩa là thực ra chúng ta chỉ lên kế hoạch, làm, hành động với sự tư do rõ ràng, nhưng phần lớn với chúng ta, chúng ta chỉ nhìn thấy những hành động gì bên trong câu chuyện mạch lạc của dự định đầy đủ => mình nghĩ có lẽ A vì nó nói k đủ time
Nhưng quay lại, đọc các đoạn trên, mình thấy nói : Wegener là người k cầu tiến, ông này để lại tài liệu chả có giá trị như các nhà bác học khác => vậy nếu vậy câu A rất sai về logic đúng k, đó là lý do mình thấy skim scan là 1 cái gì đó rất stupid, vì đây là reading comprehension mà
Some famous scientists, such as Newton, Darwin, and Einstein, left mountains of written material behind, hundreds of notebooks and letters numbering in the tens of thousands. Others, like Michael Faraday, left extensive journals of their thoughts and speculations, parallel to their scientific notebooks. The more such material a scientist leaves behind, the better chance a biographer has of forming an accurate picture of how a scientist’s ideas took shape and evolved.
I am firmly of the opinion that most of us, Wegener included, are not in any real sense the authors of our own lives. We plan, think, and act, often with apparent freedom, but most of the time our lives ‘happen to us’, and we only retrospectively turn this happenstance into a coherent narrative of fulfilled intentions. This book, therefore, is a story both of the life and scientific work that Alfred Wegener planned and intended and of the life and scientific work that actually ‘happened to him’. These are, as I think you will soon see, not always the same thing.
40 What is Greene’s main point in the final paragraph?
A It is not enough in life to have good intentions.
B People need to plan carefully if they want to succeed.
C People have little control over many aspects of their lives.
B It is important that people ensure they have the freedom to act.
Đầu tiên câu 40 mọi người chọn gì, cá nhân mình thấy, nếu skim xong ta sẽ khoanh vùng đc câu đc bôi đậm, và ban đầu mình nghĩ câu bôi đậm nghĩa là thực ra chúng ta chỉ lên kế hoạch, làm, hành động với sự tư do rõ ràng, nhưng phần lớn với chúng ta, chúng ta chỉ nhìn thấy những hành động gì bên trong câu chuyện mạch lạc của dự định đầy đủ => mình nghĩ có lẽ A vì nó nói k đủ time
Nhưng quay lại, đọc các đoạn trên, mình thấy nói : Wegener là người k cầu tiến, ông này để lại tài liệu chả có giá trị như các nhà bác học khác => vậy nếu vậy câu A rất sai về logic đúng k, đó là lý do mình thấy skim scan là 1 cái gì đó rất stupid, vì đây là reading comprehension mà
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