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The Early Life of Marie Curie

Marie Curie’s story is all about courage and persistence（坚持）. She was born in Warsaw, Poland in l867. She finished her life as a w1.of two Nobel Prizes, and as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th c2..

Marie learned to read at an early age. She read everything she c3.: novels, history books, poems and even her father’s papers.

Marie had an u4. childhood. At age 8, her eldest sister died of illness. And two years later, her mother died of tuberculosis（肺结核）. At 15, she graduated from middle school. However, girls were not a5. to get further education. If they wanted to study more, girls had to go abroad.

Unluckily, her family couldn’t a6. it, so she had to make a living in Poland.

Marie left Warsaw when she was 16 and worked as a governess（家庭教师）in the countryside. She was patient enough and good at teaching children. She had to work long and lonely hours during the daytime, but at night she studied her father’s favourite subjects-physics and mathematics.

By 1891, Marie came to Paris for f7. study. But she couldn’t speak French. She could h8.understand the lessons. To catch up, she studied French every evening and did all the work she had missed.

In 1894, she a9. her degree（学位）in mathematics. That year was even more important for Marie b10. she met a man who would be her partner in work and life: Pierre Curie, a young French scientist.

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