Lesson 3

一. Read the text carefully and answer the following questions:

1. Why were polonium and radium two important discoveries?

What is the disadvantage of radioactive matter mentioned in the text?

What happened to Pierre and Marie after years of working with radio-

active matter?

1906 was a difficult years for Madame Curie, wasn’t it? Why?

What happened to Marie Curie after the death of her husband?

Did Marie Curie go to many countries to give speeches about her work?

How many Nobel Prizes did Marie Curie receive all her life? When did

she receive them?

What do you think caused Marie Curie’s blindness and illness and finally

a disease of the blood?

What should we learn from her?

二. Put the following into English or Chinese:

1. 这个问题引发了一场热烈的讨论。

一封家信引起了他的思乡之情。

农场的新鲜空气治好了他的头疼。

The government is making efforts to cure the poverty in the countryside.

不会驾驶汽车是一个不利条件。

巨大的噪音对听力有很坏的影响。

新的法律下个月开始生效。

本规则仍然有效。

她儿子的突然去世对她来说是个沉重的打击。

对于她儿子的突然去世她很震惊。

三. Correct the mistake in each line if there is any:

One evening, Rob was driving along the road looking for

a hotel while he saw an old at the roadside. He 1.

stopped his car and asking him if he knew where the Sun .2.

Hotel was. “Of course, ” answered the old man, “I’ll show 3.

you the way. ” Then they got into the car. They drove for .4.

about twenty miles and reached at a small house. The old 5.

man said, “OK, now stop here. ”

Rob looked at the house in surprises. 6.

“Therefore it doesn’t look like a hotel, ” he said to the .7.

old man. “Yes, ” replied the old man. “This is my house. .8.

And now let me show you the way on the Sun Hotel. Turn 9.

round and go back nine miles, then you’ll see on your left. ” .10.

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Key to Lesson 3

Read the text carefully and answer the following questions:

1. Because polunium can be used to set off a nuclear bomb and radium

can be used as a cure for cancer.

2. Radioactive matter is dangerous to work with because it has a bad effect

on the blood.

Pierre and Marie noticed that their bodies ached and their hands

suffered too.

Yes, it was. Because Pierre’s died in a road accident in 1906.

Marie Curie was given Pierre’s post at the university of Paris as head of

the Physics Department.

Yes, she did.

Two. She won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 and she received the

Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911.

Radium.

We should learn from her about her determination and courage, her will-

ingless to share her knowledge, her interest in women’s rights and her

medical service in the war.

Put the following into English or Chinese:

1. This question set off a heated discussion.

A letter from home set off an attack of his homesickness.

The fresh air on the farm cured him of his headaches.

政府正在作出努力来消除农村的贫困。

It is a disadvantage not to be able to drive a car.

Very loud noises have a bad effect on hearing.

The new law will come into effect next month.

The rule is still in effect.

Her son’s sudden death was a terrible shock to her.

She was shocked at her son’s sudden death.

Correct the mistake in each line if there is any:

1. while ( when 2. asking ( asked 3. correct 4. get ( got

5. 去掉at 6. surprises ( surprise 7. therefore ( but

8. Yes ( No 9. on ( to 10. see + it

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