单项选择题
| In Switzerland, six miles west of
Geneva, lies a collection of laboratories and buildings, and most curious of
ally a circular mound (36) more than 650 feet in diameter.
This cluster has unique importance. It is Europe’s (37)
atomic city dedicated to investigating the atom for peaceful purposes.
The strange buildings (38) the European Council for Nuclear
Research, more popularly known, from their French initials as CERV. The council
was (39) when a handful of statesmen and scientific experts
met in Paris in 1950. Their aim was to " (40) an organization
providing for cooperation among European states in nuclear research of a pure
scientific and fundamental character." The CERV agreement was signed in 1953, and work on the atomic city began in 1954. Today CERV’s (41) are among the most modern and the most diversified in the world. Impressive as the scientific aspect may be, the real significance of CKRV may lie (42) the thousand people—scientists, lab workers, and administrative—group drawn from the fourteen member nations (43) populate it. British engineers work (44) with Swiss electricians and Yugoslav nuclear physicists. The official languages are French and English, with German an unofficial third. But CFRV is (45) tower of Babel—the language of science is universal and all-embracing. |