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材料:第一次世界大战爆发后,连那些素来都不问政治、清高脱俗的教授和学者也加入了“保卫祖国”的大合唱。爱因斯坦本人则公开声明自己是和平主义者,反对一切战争。他认为科学是全世界的,因此像躲避瘟疫一样,避开那些数不清的对炮弹、潜艇和飞机的研究。他说:“在我看来,战争是多么卑鄙、下流!我宁愿被千刀万剐,也不愿参与这种可憎的勾当。”

    进入三十年代以后,爱因斯坦逐渐转变为积极的和平主义者。1933年4月,有人请求他出面援助因拒绝服兵役而被捕的比利时青年,他发表公开信回答说:“如果我是比利时人,在目前的形势下,我不会拒绝服兵役。我将愉快的参军。我相信,这将有助于拯救欧洲。”后来爱因斯坦移居美国。在得知希特勒动员力量进行核研究的消息后,他毅然给罗斯福总统写信,建议美国加快研究。1945年,美国在长崎和广岛投掷了原子弹。爱因斯坦悔恨地认为是自己“按了按钮”,并表示如果知道德国人不会成功地制造原子弹,就一点忙都不会去帮了。他认为,消除原子弹对人类生存的威胁已经成为今天最迫切的问题,因而积极投身到反战和平运动中。

——摘编自布恩《爱因斯坦大传》

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    You have never seen him,but they're with you every time you fly.They record where you are going,how fast you're traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally.Their ability to withstand(经受得住)almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a magic book.They're known as the black box.

    When planes fall from the sky,as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30,2009,the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong.So when a French submarine(潜水艇)detected the device's homing signal five days later,the discovery marked a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed.

    In 1958,Australian scientist David Warren developed a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction.That was the first mode for a black box,which became a requirement on all U.S.commercial flights by 1960.Early models often failed to withstand crashes,however,so in 1965 the device(装置)was completely redesigned and moved to the back of the plane-the area least affected bu impact-from its original position in the landing wells(起落架舱). The same year, the Federal Aviation Authority required that the boxes,which were never actually black,be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility.

    Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder,which tracks pilots' conversations,and a flight-data recorder,which monitors fuel levels,engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft's final moments.Placed in an insulated ( 隔绝的) case and surrounded by a quarter-inch-thick panels of stainless steel,the boxes can withstand massive force and temperatures up to 2,000℉.When in deep water,they're also able to emit signals from depths of 20,000 ft.Experts believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447,which crashed near Brazil on June 1,2009,are in water nearly that deep,but statistics say they're still likely to turn up.In the approximately 20 deep-sea crashes over the past 30 years,only one plane's black boxes were never recovered.