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The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia houses one exhibit near the entrance that inspires unmatchable awe. Look closely at the display, and you can see marks left by museum goers pressing their foreheads against the glass.

The object that fascinates them is a small wooden box containing 46 microscope slides, each displaying a slice of Albert Einstein’s brain. A magnifying glass positioned over one of the slides reveals a piece of tissue about the size of a stamp. Einstein’s brain represents potential, the ability of one exceptional mind, one genius, to catapult ahead of everyone else.

Throughout history rare individuals have stood out for their meteoric contriButions to a field Lady Murasaki for her literary creation. Michelangelo for his masterful touch. Marie Curie for her scientific acuity. ‘The genius,” wrote German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, “lights on his age like a comet into the paths of the planets.” Consider

Einstein impact on physics. With no tools available other than the force of his own thoughts, he predicted in his genenal theory of relativity massive —accelerating objects-like black holes orbiting each other-would create ripples (波紋）in the fabric space-time. It took one hundred years, enormous computational power; and massively sophisticated technology to definitively prove him right, with the physical detection of such gravitational waves less than two years ago.

Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the very laws of the universe. But our understanding of how a. mind like his works remains stubbornly stagnant. What set his brainpower, his thought processes, apart from those of his merely brilliant peers? What makes a genius?

Philosophers have long been puzzling over the origins of genius. Early Greek thinkers believed an overabundance of black bile-one of proposed by Hippocrates-endowed poets, philosopher, and other famous souls with “extraordinary powers，” says historian Darrin McMahon, author of Divine Fury:A History of Genius,Phrenologists（骨相學家）attempted to find genius in bumps on the head；they collected skulls-including philosopher Immanuel Kant s—which they examined, measured^ and weighed.

None of them discovered a single source of genius, and such a thing is unlikely to be found. Genius is too abstract, too subjective, too wedded to the verdict of history to be easily identified And it requires the ultimate expression of too many features to be simplified into the highest point on one human scale. Instead we can try to understand it by cracking the complex and mixed qualities intelligence, creativity, perseverance, and simple good fortune, to name a few-that combine to create a person capable of changing the world.

58. Why does the author talk about the “marks” in paragraph ONE?

A. He is unsatisfied with the untidy environment ofthe museum.

B. He is angry about the disrespect to the exhibit

C. He is about to explain the exhibits popularity.

D. He is amazed at the huge population visiting the museum.

59. What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?

A. It took Einstein years to prove the existence of gravitational waves.

B. Arthur Schopenhauer was widely acknowledged as a genius in history.

C. Emstein made incredible prediction despite lack of sources.

D. Geniuses have limited influences just as comets do.

60. What is author most likely to talk about after this passage?

A. Examples of geniuses who possess such qualities.