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甘肃省武夷市民勤县2017-2018学年高二英语上学期第一次月考试题 阅读理解 （30分） A The Early Life of Marie Curie Marie Curie’s story is one of courage and determination. She began life in a country where,at the time,women were only given a basic education. She finished her life as a Doctor of Science,as a winner of the twentieth century. Marie Curie was born as Marya Sklodowska in Warsaw,Poland on 7th November 1867. She had three older sisters and one older brother. Her mother was a school principal and her father worked as a professor of mathematics and physics at a high school. They did not have much money. Marie learned to read fluently at an early age. She read everything she could; novels,history books,poetry and even her father抯 technical papers. Tragedy struck the family twice in Marie抯 childhood. First her oldest sister,Sofia,died of typhus and two years later,Marie抯 mother died from tuberculosis. Marie was then ten years old. During that time,Marie continued with her studies. By the time she was 15,she had graduated top of her class from her secondary school. However,girls were not allowed to move on to further education. If they wanted to study more,girls had to go abroad. Unfortunately,Marie抯 family did not have enough money to send her away,so she had to earn a living in Poland. Marie left Warsaw when she was16 and went to work as a governess in the countryside . She had to work long and lonely hours,but at night she studied her father抯 favorite subjects physics and mathematics.She saved money too. By 1885,Marie抯 sister Bronya had saved enough money to go to Paris to study medicine.She promised Marie that she would bring her to Paris once she was settled there. It was five years before Marie was finally asked to go. Marie was 24 when she arrived in Paris.Alongside 12000 other students,she entered the Sorbolme (an ancient and famous university) where she studied mathematics. Marie couldn抰 speak French,so she could hardly