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A. appreciate   B. artificial   C. proportions   D. summarized   E. wealth   F. circumstances G. contributions     H. documentary   I. civilization     J. innovators     K. mark

If you had to pick one, who do you think is greater in terms of their     1     to the Western world: British physicist Isaac Newton or Greek philosopher Aristotle? Chances are that you’d find it hard to make a decision, at least right away.

But somehow, when choosing a major in college, the line between the two areas of study couldn’t be clearer. Science majors -- the likes of technology, engineering, math -- are considered to be more practical choices because of the     2     of opportunities, while those who choose a liberal arts major -- language, music, philosophy -- may have more difficulty finding a job.

But perhaps we should look at liberal arts studies in another way to understand its value. In the BBC’s     3     Civilizations, for example, presenters take us to 31 countries on six continents to     4     human creativity in its tangible form, such as Angkor Wat in Cambodia, and the Suleymaniye mosque in Turkey.

To Simon Schama, one of the presenters, human     5     isn’t just about technological inventions or meeting basic needs, but about creating things for the purpose of leaving a person’s “    6     of their existence for future humans to witness and admire”.

By comparing science and liberal arts, we’re drawing “an     7     line” between the two, wrote Loretta Jackson-Hayes, an associate professor of chemistry at Rhodes College in Memphis, US, on the Washington Post website. And to some of the greatest     8     in history, this line never existed in the first place.

Leonardo da Vinci, for example, was just as successful a scientist as he was a painter. He was so interested in biology and anatomy that he drew the famous Vitruvian Man, part of his study of the     9     of the human body. Then there’s Steve Jobs, who, despite being an engineer, was also an artist. He     10     his view on the relationship between science and the arts in 2011: “It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough -- it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.”

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Three scientists have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for their discoveries related to massive objects called black holes.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Science said Tuesday it would give half of the $ 1.1 million prize to Roger Pen-rose of Britain's University of Oxford ,     1    (add) that he had used mathematics to prove that black holes were a direct result of "Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity."

Germany's Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez of the United States will share the other half of the physics prize. The academy honored the two scientists "    2    the discovery of a super-massive compact object at the center of our galaxy." That object was a large black hole. The physics   prize celebrates     3    the Nobel Committee called "one of the most exotic objects in the universe."

Galaxies are huge systems that contain billions of stars. Black holes might exist at the center of every galaxy. Nothing, not even light,     4    escape their gravity. Time comes to a stop     5    it gets closer.

Roger Pen-rose proved that the formation of black holes was possible. His work       6    (base) heavily on Einstein's general theory of relativity. British astronomer Martin Rees noted it was   Pen-rose's work     7    fueled a "renaissance" in the study of relativity. He added, Pen-rose, together with Setphen Hawking, helped support evidence for the Big Bang and black holes. "Pen-rose and Hawking are the two Individuals     8    have done more than anyone else since Einstein to deepen our knowledge of gravity," Rees said.

The first picture Genzel and Ghez got of the object was in 1995. A year later, another picture appeared to show that the stars near the center of the Milky Way were moving around

    9    . A third picture led Genze and Ghez to think they had discovered it. Andrea Ghez is the fourth woman     10    (award) the Nobel Prize for physics. The others were Marie Curie in 1903, Marie Goeppert-Mayer in 1963, and Donna Strickland in 2018.