高中英语 晨读英语美文60篇 34 Madam Curie to Be Permitted into the Pantheon素材.doc

madam curie to be permitted into the pantheon00:08.15on the eve of the international womens day on march 8th,199400:13.85french president mitterrand made the announcement00:17.47that madame curie was soon to be admitted into the pantheon-00:20.90the memorial hall of the french national heroes.00:24.82the decision, though coming 60 years late,00:28.54is a great inspiration and gratification to the people.00:32.25madam curie, born in warsaw,poland in 1867,00:36.97is a french professor of physics,00:39.39and was taught the value of learning and raised to a patriot by her parents.00:44.53due to her gender,00:46.18she was not allowed admission into any polish universities00:49.78after graduating from high school.00:51.84eventually, with the monetary assistance of her elder sister,00:56.02she moved to paris and studied chemistry and physics at the sorbonne,01:01.60where she became the first woman to teach.01:04.43although marie was not as well prepared as her fellow students,01:09.36through hard work she completed masters degrees in physics01:13.51and math in only three years.01:15.82it was at the sorbonne that she met pierre curie who became her husband later.01:22.16just think of the hardship she and her husband went through01:25.98in those hundreds of days in a damp shed01:29.59when they tried to extract pure uranium.01:32.97madame curie had to bear both the endless obsessions of strict working style and serious attitude01:40.09and the excessive heavy work which even a strong man would find hardly possible to endure.01:46.11such was her mental and physical burden that mr. curie had sighed and said,01:52.02“the life weve chosen is really too hard.”01:55.06when the nobel prize for physics was awarded to pierre and marie curie in 1903,02:02.08the great honor quickly changed their lives.02:05.35sorbonne university belatedly found funds for a laboratory02:09.61and marie curie was hired as “laboratory chief”.02:13.24unfortunately, in 1906 mr. curie was killed in a traffic accident.02:19.24“it is impossible for me to express the profoundness of the crisis brought into my life02:25.47by the loss of the one who had been my closest companion,”02:29.08madam curie said sadly.02:31.60crushed by the blow, she did not feel able to face the future.02:36.30she could not forget, however, what her husband used sometimes to say,02:41.44“even deprived of me, you ought to continue our work.”02:45.93she was left alone to bring up children and, at the same time,02:50.85persisted in her giant research project on radium.02:54.47she refused all the honors and titles that she deserved and buried herself in science research.03:02.12she received a second nobel prize for chemistry in 1911.03:07.15so she became the first scientist in the world to win two nobel prizes.03:13.39since mans civilization began,03:16.33there have been very few women like madame curie03:19.74who so perfectly combined the role of a scientist,a wife and mother.03:24.99she joined with all readiness organization protecting the patents and copyrights03:31.09and copyrights of her fellow scientists.03:32.96she says that scientists need protection while in laboratories the way a child needs it,03