Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 39 to 43
Einstein took longer than usual to begin to speak. He began sometime after his second birthday. He was also rebellious towards authority when he was at school. These two facts may have been the origin of a popular myth that Einstein was a bad student and that he failed at school. This is simply not true. Einstein was outstanding at physics and Math when he was young. At sixteen, he wrote a brilliant essay that had a direct link with his later work in relativity. The myth may also come from the fact that at sixteen, he tried to get into the prestigious Federal Polytechnic in Zurich. The normal entrance age was eighteen. It seems he failed some of the non-science subjects, doing badly in French, for example. The school did not take him. But the next year, he passed. In later life, Einstein was well-known for making some mistakes in his Math and the Math he was doing was not exactly straightforward.
Einstein's brain was quite special, a part of it is responsible for mathematical thought and spatial-kinesthetic intelligence. In Einstein's brain, this region was 15 percent wider than average. Besides, the line running from the front of the brain to the back was not complete. They think that this allowed the two halves of Einstein's brain to talk to each other more fluently. How do we know all this? After he died, a curious scientist removed his brain to check it out.
(Adapted from “Gateway B2, by David Spencer)
