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1. 1.

   Their life together in a little flat was singularly lacking in comfort. They refused the furniture offered to them by Pierre's father.

   1. Why was the offer of furniture turned down?
   2. What was the only furniture in the flat?
   3. What does this sentence reveal about Marie and Pierre?
2. 2.

   No other man or woman to date has received the prize for two different subjects.

   1. Which reword is referred to in this extract?
   2. Who received this reward twice?
   3. For which discovery did the person receive the reward the first time?
   4. With whom was the reward shared?
3. 3.

   This was a first time that a position in French higher education had been given to a woman.

   1. What is the position referred to in these lines? Which woman had been given these position for the first time?
   2. Who had held the position before it was awarded to a woman?
   3. What alternative had the woman turned down before she was given this position?
4. 4.

   What was the immediate sympathy that brought Marie and Pierre together?

5. 5.

   What serious discussion did the Curies have when the radium industry was about to be born? What was the decision they took?
6. 6.

   How did the Curies spend the money they received when they were awarded the Nobel Prize? What does this reveal about them?