WHY DOES THE AUTHOR MENTION “CHILDREN” IN PARAGRAPH 2

Câu 33: Why does the author mention “children” in paragraph 2?

A. To focus that Diwali is a noisy festival.

B. To indicate that the holiday is dangerous for children.

C. To explain that the Diwali is a time for competition.

D. To indicate that children enjoy the holiday of Diwali a

lot.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct

answer to each of the questions that follow from 34 to 40.

Most people have heard of Albert Einstein, but a person who became a friend of his may be less well-

known, but she is also a famous scientist. Her name is Marie Curie, who is most known for her work in

radiation. She was born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867 where she grew up with her parents and

four other children in the family. Marie was also the youngest child. Because both her parents were teachers,

Marie learned how to read and write at a very young age. She was intelligent, had an outstanding memory,

and worked very hard in school. As Marie grew older there were tough times for her and the family, but she

was able to attend a university after graduating from high school, even though it was not something women

did during those times. However, she attended a famous university in Paris, France called the Sorbonne

where women were permitted to attend. After just three years at the school she earned a degree in Physics.

She loved to learn and had always known she wanted to be a scientist.

In 1894, she married Pierre Curie, also a scientist, and a year later they had their first child, a daughter

named Irene. Marriage and motherhood did not stop Marie from her work and research as a scientist. She

became interested in x-rays which had been recently discovered. Marie decided to do some experiments with

the element uranium, which is given off by the rays. Her husband, Pierre, joined Marie in her experiments.

One day she was examining a material called pitchblende and had expected just a few rays to be given off.

Instead, there were many extra rays and Marie realized there must have been an undiscovered element in

pitchblende. She and her husband spent many more hours in the lab doing investigations with the new

element. They ended up discovering with two new elements which they discovered, adding them to the

periodic table. Maria named one of the elements polonium after her home country, Poland, and the other she

named it radium because it gave off so many strong rays. Marie and Pierre Curie came up with the new term

'radioactivity' too, as well to describe elements that emit strong rays.

In 1903, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to both scientists for

their

work in radiation, and

Marie was also the first woman in history to be awarded the Nobel Prize. She did not stop there though,

because in 1911, Marie won another Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, for discovering the two elements,

polonium and radium. Not only was she the first woman, but also the first person ever to be awarded two

Nobel Prizes. This made her very famous and scientists all over the world wanted to study radioactivity with

Marie. Later, doctors found that radiology could help cure cancer. Unfortunately, Marie Curie died in 1934

due to overexposure to radiation from the experiments and

from the work she did with x-ray machines.

Currently, there are many safety precautions that are used preventing scientists from being overexposed to

radiation.

In summary, Marie Curie is a famous physicist known for her work with radiation, and also as the first woman

to receive a Nobel Prize and to win two Nobel Prizes in her lifetime.