WHAT DOES THE AUTHOR IMPLY ABOUT THE NEW DISCOVERY

65.What does the author imply about the new discovery?

A.It is exciting, but too involved.

B.It is only one of eleven or twelve such genes.

C.It may result in a cure.

D.It only suppresses half of the tumors found.

How many times have you used electricity today? Here are a few of the electrical

appliances you may have switched on: the light, the radio, the stove, the toaster, the

refrigerator, the television, the washing machine.

For all these wonderful things and many more, you owe a ‘thank you’ to an English

scientist named Michael Faraday, who is known as the Pioneer of the Electrical Age.

Of course, Faraday was not the first to discover electricity. The early Greeks learned they

could get electrical spark by rubbing a piece of amber from certain pine trees. The Greek

name for amber was ‘electron’, from which we get the word ‘electricity’.

In 1752 the American inventor Benjamin Franklin performed his famous kiteflying

experiment, and discovered that lightning is electricity.

In 1800 an Italian scientist named Volta invented the first electric battery, which produced

a continuous flow of electricity.

But the man who really put electricity to work was Michael Faraday. He showed the world

how to make electricity run a motor. Then he showed us how to make a motor produce

electricity. His experiments were the beginning of the Electrical Age.