Variant 1 You could have come first and won the race if you … faster

22. The word ARTIFICIAL in the passage means.

A) experimental B) profitable C) unnatural D) recyclable

Sir Isaac Newton was drinking tea under the apple trees in his garden one summer afternoon in 1665 when an apple fell from an overhanging branch, hit him on the head and immediately provided the inspiration for his law of gravitation. According to the story that is how it happened, anyway, it may indeed be true, but no one knows for certain. Even the famed British astronomer Sir Harold Spencer Jones, who stated in 1944 that the story was probably true, later changed his mind, noting that one cannot be sure either way. The story of Newton's Apple first appeals in Voltaire's Elements de la Philosophic de Newton, published in 1738, long after the great Englishman had died and 73 years from the time the disputed apple fell.

23. The fact that Newton was inspired to investigate gravitation, which is given in the passage is ...

A) shows us a real history of gravitation B) a very moot point

C) was first created by Sir Harold Spencer Jones D) considered to be a complete nonsense