III. 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

Trả lời:

- strong-willed: With a little money to live on, Marie Curie came to Paris to realize her dream. In spite of her difficult living conditions, she worked extremely hard.

- ambitious: Marie harboured the dream of a scientific career which was impossible for a woman at that time.

- hard-working: In spite of her difficult living conditions, she worked extremely hard; to save money for a study tour abroad, she worked as a private tutor; she earned a Physics degree... and went on to take another degree in Mathematics

- intelligent: As a brilliant and mature student; she earned a Physics degree with Hying colours: the first woman to receive a Ph D from the Sorbonne: the first woman university professor in France; awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

- humane, her real joy was “casing human suffering”.