76. Max Perutz won the Nobel prize though he made a lot of mistakes because ____.

1. his important contribution outweighed those marginal mistakes
2. he made assertions not based by the sparse evidence he had gathered
3. he could always reach the correct conclusion in the end
4. he was brave enough to admit his mistakes and strived for improvement

77. Which one of the following statements is TRUE of Perutz's task of analyzing structure of hemoglobin?

1. Perutz successfully worked out the structures of all the different arrangements of atoms of hemoglobin.
2. It is not Perutz who had first provided an answer to the correct structure of hemoglobin.
3. It is in fact Perutz's colleague who had sorted out the solution to the problem of hemoglobin's structure.
4. Perutz had worked diligently on the divergences between himself and his colleague in analyzing structure of hemoglobin.

78. Perutz was very angry with the junior researcher who popped the final piece into its slot because ____.

1. the researcher asserted that what Perutz viewed was only jigsaw puzzle
2. the researcher pointed out that Perutz did not piece together the evidence to prove the final result
3. the researcher passed off the secret to why blood supports life as his own idea
4. the researcher pieced together the evidence to work out the final result

79. Perutz's progress was interrupted by an establishment because ____.

1. the subject he studied did not belong to any of the conventional disciplines
2. his study threatened existing subjects by promoting interdisciplinary areas of science
3. that establishment prevented him from receiving adequate and long-term funds
4. he was diverted to the cause of setting up a brand new institute

80. The word "redressing" (Para.7) most probably means ____.

1. remedying
2. rectifying
3. re-adjusting
4. reversing

(Reference keys.)