When Oliver Sacks， 82， died on Aug 30 at his home in New York City， the world was saddened by the loss of a brilliant neurologist（神经学者） and a truly beautiful mind．
London-born Sacks was most famous for his writing． A Forbes obituary（讣告） calls him "one of the greatest writers of science of the past 50 years． Maybe the greatest．"
In his best-selling 1985 book， The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat， Sacks described a man who could not tell the difference between his wife's face and his hat， because his brain had difficulty telling what he saw．
In 2006， Discover magazine ranked it among the 25 greatest science books of all time， declaring， "Lots of neuroscientists now looking into the mysteries of the human brain cite this book as their greatest inspiration．"
His 1973 book， Awakenings， is about a group of patients who were frozen in a decades-long sleep until Sacks tried a new treatment． The book led to a 1990 movie in which Sacks was acted by Robin Williams． It was nominated（提名） for three Academy Awards．
Another book， An Anthropologist on Mars， published in 1995， described cases like that of a painter who lost his color vision in a car accident but found new creative power in black-and-white images． Sacks also wrote the story of a 50-year-old man who suddenly regained sight after nearly a lifetime of blindness． The experience was a disaster． The man's brain could not make sense of the visual world． After a full and rich life as a blind person， he became "a very disabled and miserable（悲惨的） sighted man，" Sacks wrote． "When he went blind again， he was rather glad of it．"
Despite the drama and unusual stories， Sacks" books were not meant to be freak shows． "Oliver Sacks humanizes illness…he writes of body and mind， and from every one of his case studies there shows a feeling of respect for the patient and for the illness，" Roald Hoffmann， a Nobel Prize-winning chemist， said in 2001．
When Sacks received the Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing in 2002， the citation（荣誉状） declared， "Sacks presses us to follow him into unknown areas of human experience-and forces us to realize， once there， that we are facing only ourselves．"



The following statements are wrong EXCEPT ______ ．

A. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was ranked among the 25 greatest science books
B. Anthropologist on Mars led to a movie in which Sacks was acted by Robin Williams
C. In Awakenings， Sacks recorded a man who regained sight after a lifetime blindness
D. Awakenings is often cited by neuroscientists to prove the mystery of human brain

Why was Sacks called one of the greatest writers of science over the past 50 years？ ______

A. He was born in London and most famous for his writing．
B. He was a brilliant neurologist and had a truly beautiful mind．
C. He received the Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing in 2002．
D. He wrote a series of books， the influence of which was great．

The underlined word freak in Para． 7 can be replaced by ______ ．

A. pure
B. common
C. unusual
D. attractive

The passage is mainly about ______ ．

A. the awards Oliver Sacks" won
B. the life experiences of Oliver Sacks
C. the influence of Oliver Sacks" works
D. the reasons why Oliver Sacks" succeeded