12th grade - Worksheet - Unit 4 6/12/2021

Read the text then answer the questions below. Choose the correct answer a, b or c. (10m)
The child prodigy Marie Curie was born in 12. The word beauty is ...............
Warsaw, Poland, she was the child of two a) a verb b) an adjective c) a noun
teachers who placed great importance on 13. The word beautiful is ...............
education for all of their children. Just by a) a verb b) an adjective c) a noun
watching her four older siblings, by age 14. The word capable is ...............
four Marie had taught herself how to read in a) a verb b) an adjective c) a noun
Russian and French. She helped her 15. He often acts in a ............. way.
brothers and sisters with their math a) childish b) child c) children
homework. Even at a young age she could 18. She adopted a .......... boy.
remember events that happened years a) houses b) homeless c) homelessness
before. As a teenager, Marie really wanted 19. The adjective from of the following words
to attend university. However, her family is:
couldn`t afford it, so she spent five a) strong b) strength c) strengthen
grueling years earning money as a tutor. In 20. The adjective from of the following words
1891, and she finally went to the Sorbonne is:
College in Paris. There, she discovered a) strength b) strengthen c) strong
future husband Pierre Curie, along with the 21. It looks like we’ll have ........weather today.
radioactive elements radium and polonium. a) rainy b) rain c) rains
She and her husband won a Nobel Prize Form adjectives from the words in brackets.
together. After Pierre`s death in 1906, (6m)
Marie continued her work, winning her 22. Look out for that (poison) plant.
second Nobel Prize at age 44. 23. We go for a (day) walk.
Answer the following question. (10m) 24. He died in (mystery) conditions.
1. What did Marie do when she was four? 25. We had to wait a (lengthen) time
2. Why couldn’t Marie attend university as a 26. We spent (enjoy) days last summer.
teenager? 27. I enjoyed a (success) event.
3. What did Marie do after her husband’s death?
Match the underlined words in the text with Translate in English. (3m)
meanings below. (3m)
4. extremely tiring and demanding. 28. .‫هي دائما تتصرف بطريقة مهذبة‬
5. a child who is unusually talented in some way.
6. the teaching or training of people , especially Translate into Arabic or Kurdish. (3m)
in schools. 29. Pablo Picasso had a brush in his hand
Fill in the gaps from the list below. (5m) from an early age.
(blames , straw , worth , nunnery , draw)
Write a paragraph about a prodigy you
7. A ............ is a place where nuns live.
8. A bad worker ............ his tools know or read about. (10m)
9. A picture is ............ a thousand words.
10. A drowning man will clutch at a .............
11. Picasso could ............. before he could talk.