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Reading Comprehension Grade 12
Reading Comprehension Grade 12
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Practice your reading comprehension.
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1
When she learned that she could not attend the university in Warsaw, she felt ______.
hopeless
annoyed
worried
depressed
2
Marie had a bright mind and a ______ personality.
lighthearted
humorous
envious
strong
3
She entered the university of Sorbone in France at the age of _______.
28
14
18
24
4
Her ______ began to fade when she returned to the Sorbonne to succeed her husband.
wretchedness
anger
disappointment
misfortune
5
_________ she remembered their joy together.
Dejectedly
Tearfully
Worried
Happily
6
Marie _________ by leaving Poland and traveling to France to enter the Sorbonne.
challenged authority
behaved
was distressed
showed intelligence
7
The Curies' ______ collaboration helped to unlock the secrets of the atom.
courteous
friendly
industrious
competitive
8
Marie Curie was born in____________.
Holland
England
Poland
Switzerland
9
Even though she became fatally ill from working with radium, Marie Curie was never _______.
sorrowful
disappointed
disturbed
troubled
10
In 1911, she received the Nobel Prize for________.
her professorship at the world-famous university
her long exposure to radium
isolating radium
revealing the mysteries of the physical world