Reading - Unit 3 trang 32 SGK Tiếng Anh 10

As a brilliant and mature student, Marie harboured the dream of a scientific career, which was impossible for a woman at that time. To save money for a study tour abroad, she had to work as a private tutor, and her studies were interrupted.

Finally in 1891, Marie, with very little money to live on, went to Paris to realise her dream at the Sorbonne. In spite of her difficult living conditions, she worked extremely hard. She earned a degree in Physics with flying colours, and went on to take another degree in Mathematics. She met Pierre Curie in the School of Physics in 1894 and a year later they got married. From then on, they worked together on their research. In 1903, Marie became the first woman to receive a PhD from the Sorbonne.

After the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she took up the position which her husband had obtained at the Sorbonne. Thus, she was the first woman in France to be a university professor. Soon after, she was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the atomic weight of radium. But her real joy was ‘‘easing human suffering”. The founding of the Radium Institute in 1914 made her humanitarian wish come true.

Task 1

Task 1: Match the words or phrases in A with their meanings in B.

(Ghép những từ hay cụm từ ở A với nghĩa của chúng ở B.)

1. with flying colours

2. determine

3. mature

4. ease

5. harbour

a. having a fully developed mind

b. keep in the mind

c. very well, with a very high mark/grade

d. make less severe

e. find out exactly by making calculations

Task 2

Task 2: Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false information.

(Xác định những câu nói này đúng (T) hay sai (F). Sửa lại câu sai).

	T	F
1. Marie went to school in Warsaw.
2. Her dream was to become a private tutor.
3. At the Sorbonne, she studied very well.
4. She married Pierre Curie in 1894.
5. She was the first woman professor at the Sorbonne.

Task 3

Task 3: Answer the questions.

(Trả lời các câu hỏi).

1. When and where was Marie Curie born?

(Marie Curie sinh ra khi nào và ở đâu?)

2. What kind of student was she?

(Bà là xếp loại sinh viên gì?)

3. Why did she work as a private tutor?

(Tại sao bà làm việc như một gia sư riêng?)

4. For what service was she awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

(Bà được trao giải Nobel Hóa học về cái gì?)

5. Was the prize her real joy? Why/Why not?

(Đó có phải là niềm vui thực sự của bà? Tại sao / tại sao không?)

After

AFTER YOU READ

Work in groups. Below are five adjectives we may use to describe Marie Curie. Find the evidence from the passage to prove each of them.

(Làm việc theo nhóm. Dưới đây là năm tính từ chúng ta cỏ thể dùng để mô tả Marie Curie. Tìm những chứng cứ từ đoạn văn để chứng minh từng từ trong chúng.)

strong-willed

ambitious

hard-working

intelligent

humane

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