The Life and Work of Marie Curie Reading Answers
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The Academic passage ‘The Life and Work of Marie Curie’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 1-13. Beyond the questions, you will find the answers along with the location of the answers in the passage and the keywords that help you find out the answers.
The Life and Work of Marie Curie
Answers
The answers to the above questions are given below with their explanations.
| Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
| 1 | FALSE | Husband, joint winner, 1903, 1911 | Paragraph 1 |
| 2 | NOT GIVEN | ||
| 3 | TRUE | Finance, Bronia, 1891, Sorbonne | Paragraph 2 |
| 4 | FALSE | Birth, daughters, failed, interrupt, work | Paragraph 6 |
| 5 | TRUE | May 13, 1906, professorship, vacant, husband’s death | Paragraph 7 |
| 6 | NOT GIVEN | ||
| 7 | Thorium | Radioactivity, uranium, other elements, thorium | Paragraph 4 |
| 8 | Pitchblende | Attention, minerals, interest, pitchblende, superior, uranium | Paragraph 5 |
| 9 | Radium | 1911, Nobel Prize, chemistry | Paragraph 7 |
| 10 | Soldiers | World War 1, X-radiography, Little Curies | Paragraph 8 |
| 11 | Illness | Outstanding achievements, radioactive sources, illness | Paragraph 10 |
| 12 | Neutron | Paris, Radium institute, James Chadwick | Paragraph 10 |
| 13 | Leukaemia | Few months, discovery, leukaemia, exposure | Paragraph 10 |
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