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01. Scientists have [discovered] a gene which may explain why some people become alcoholics.

02. The [discovery] that his father was still alive was a great shock to him.

03. She [discovered] she was adopted when she found her birth certificate.

04. The stolen money was [discovered] in a paper bag in the freezer in the robber's apartment.

05. The body of the victim was [discovered] in a lake near the murderer's summer home.

06. Gold was [discovered] in the Yukon in 1896.

07. Italian police announced today the [discovery] of a number of previously stolen priceless artworks in an abandoned house in Naples.

08. According to Plato, you can [discover] more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

09. Frank Herbert once remarked that the beginning of knowledge is the [discovery] of something we do not understand.

10. When you look at cows, you should remember that the greatest scientists in the world have never [discovered] how to turn grass into milk.

11. Mark Van Doren once suggested that the art of teaching is the art of assisting [discovery].

12. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi once said that [discovery] consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.

13. There is a Malagasy proverb which states that sadness is a valuable treasure only [discovered] in people you love.

14. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once said that the [discovery] of a new dish does more for human happiness than the [discovery] of a new star.

15. The dodo bird became extinct less than 100 years after being [discovered] by the Dutch.

16. Tea was [discovered] in China more than 5,000 years ago.

17. In 1981, a box containing ashes of the Buddha was [discovered] in a town near Beijing.

18. In 1972, Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was [discovered] on Guam, having spent 28 years hiding in the jungle thinking World War Two was still going on.

19. The space probe [discovered] numerous channels on Mars that closely resemble dry riverbeds on Earth.