British hopes of a gold medal in the Olympic Games suffered ______ yesterday, when Hunter failed to qualify during the preliminary heats.

A．they are cliches, repeated too often by scientists
B．they are almost always proved to be wrong by later scientific research
C．they are mocked at by later generations
D．they provide material for good comedies

A．The author uses the case of a camel passing through the eye of a needle to prove his point that there are things impossible to accomplish
B．That a scientist cannot play the piano like one of the best pianists is not a proper illustration to prove that in science there are things impossible to accomplish
C．Scott Lankford challenges the idea that mountaineers can never climb the Everest on roller skates
D．People now laugh at their predecessors for denying the possibility of human flight