I HAVE NEVER FELT BETTER THAN I DO NOW.A. I HAVE NEVER FELT WELL.B...

35. I have never felt better than I do now.

A. I have never felt well.

B. I have always felt well.

C. I felt better before.

D. I feel well now.

C. READING

I. Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage:

The Greek philosopher Aristotle, who lived in the fourth century BC, was (36)... in a large number of

different objects. In one of his books, he (37)... with the movements of physical objects, and here he said

that heavy things fell faster than light things. It is unlikely that Aristotle tried to (38)... this by experiments;

he was probably just repeating a common belief.

For 2,000 years, everyone thought that Aristotle was right. However, in the 16

century scientists began to

(39)...a large number of old beliefs, and the Italian scientist Galileo Galilee carried out various experiments

on the dynamics of falling bodies. He is said to have dropped a cannon-ball and a pebble from the top of the

leaning tower of Pisa to see which would (40)...the ground first. This may not be true, but we do know that

Galileo proved that Aristotle was wrong; he showed that light and heavy things fell at the same speed.

Galileo was also interested in astronomy and optics. He improved the telescope, which had recently been

(41)...and was the first person to use one of these instruments to (42)... the sky. He found out that

Jupiter had satellites, that Saturn had rings, that there were mountains on the moons and spots on the sun.

Galileo got into serious (43)... with the Italian universities and the Catholic Church, which preferred

Aristotle's (44)...of the universe, and he was made to stop telling people about his new (45)...