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Will there ever be another Einstein? This is the undercurrent of conversation at Einstein memorial meetings throughout the year.

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问题     Will there ever be another Einstein? This is the undercurrent of conversation at Einstein memorial meetings throughout the year. "A new Einstein will emerge, " scientists say. But it may take a long time. After all, more than 200 years separated Einstein from his nearest rival, Isaac Newton.
    Many physicists say the next Einstein hasn’ t been born yet, or is a baby now. That’ s because the quest for a unified theory that would account for all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits. New math must be created before the problem can be solved.
    But researchers say there are many other factors working against another Einstein emerging anytime soon.
    For one thing, physics is a much different field today. In Einstein’ s day, there were only a few thousand physicists worldwide, and the theoreticians who could intellectually rival Einstein probably would fit into a streetcar with seats to spare.
    Education is different, too. One crucial aspect of Einstein’ s training that is overlooked is the years of philosophy he read as a teenager—Kant, Schopenhauer and Spinoza, among others. It taught him how to think independently and abstractly about space and time, and it wasn’ t long before he became a philosopher himself.
    "The independence created by philosophical insight is—in my opinion—the mark of distinction between a mere artisan(工匠)or specialist and a real seeker after truth, " Einstein wrote in 1944.
    And he was an accomplished musician. The interplay between music and math is well known. Einstein would furiously play his violin as a way to think through a knotty physics problem.
    Today, universities have produced millions of physicists. There aren’t many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills to more practical—and rewarding—efforts.
    "Maybe there is an Einstein out there today, " said Columbia University physicist Brian Greene, "but it would be a lot harder for him to be heard. "
    Especially considering what Einstein was proposing.
    "The actual fabric of space and time curving? My God, what an idea!" Greene said at a recent gathering at the Aspen Institute. "It takes a certain type of person who will bang his head against the wall because you believe you’ 11 find the solution. "
    Perhaps the best examples are the five scientific papers Einstein wrote in his "miracle year" of 1905. These "thought experiments" were pages of calculations signed and submitted to the prestigious journal Annalen der Physik by a virtual unknown. There were no footnotes or citations.
    What might happen to such a submission today?
    "We all get papers like those in the mail, " Greene said. "We put them in the junk file. "
What was critical to Einstein’ s success?
选项 A、His talent as an accomplished musician.
B、His independent and abstract thinking.
C、His untiring effort to fulfill his potential.
D、His solid foundation in math theory.
答案B
解析 推理判断题。根据题干中的关键词critical，success定位到文章第5段第2、3句。根据文章内容可知，他青年时期用了几年时间来研习康德、叔本华和斯宾诺森等人的哲学理论。这些理论教会他如何对时空进行独立而抽象的思考，这对他的成功非常重要，故选B。文中提到说爱因斯坦还是位杰出的音乐家，他会在狂怒地演奏他的小提琴时彻底地全面考虑棘手的物理问题，但这并不是他成功的关键因素，故排除A；文中未提及C他为实现潜能进行的不知疲倦的努力；文中只是讲了现在数学到了极限以及音乐与数学的相互影响，并没有提到爱因斯坦在这方面的坚实基础，故也排除D．
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