LAN WAS IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION, SO I AGREED LENDING HER SOME MON...

30. Lan was in a difficult situation, so I agreed lending her some money.

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Albert Einstein was born on 14

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March 1879 in Germany. Around 1886, he began his school in

Munich. As well as his violin lessons, which he had from age six to thirteen, he also had religious

education at home where he was taught Judaism. Two years later he entered the Luitpold Gymnasium

and after this his religious education was given at school. He began to study mathematics, in particular

the calculus, in 1891. In 1894 his family moved to Milan but he remained in Munich. In 1895 Einstein

failed an examination that would have allowed him to study for a diploma as an electrical engineer at

the Eidgenưssische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich. Indeed, he succeeded with his plan

graduating in 1900 as a teacher of mathematics and physics. In 1905 he proposed the special theory of

Relativity. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921. He died on 18

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April 1955 in Princeton, New

Jersey, USA. He was cremated at Trenton, New Jersey at 4 p.m. on 18

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April 1955 (the day of his

death). His ashes were scattered at an undisclosed place.