Friends Plus 7 - Unit 5 - Final test (3) Reading & Writing

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was one of the most famous scientists of all time. He developed the special and general theories of relativity and made many other important discoveries.

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Germany. His father was a salesman and engineer and his mother was a housewife. Einstein had one sister, Maja, who was born two years after him.

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Albert Einstein was older than his sister.

• True

• False

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was one of the most famous scientists of all time. He developed the special and general theories of relativity and made many other important discoveries.

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Germany. His father was a salesman and engineer and his mother was a housewife. Einstein had one sister, Maja, who was born two years after him.

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His mother was an engineer

• True

• False

He didn’t like studying at Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. One teacher even told him that he would never get anywhere. At this time, Albert Einstein became interested in classical music and he learned to play the violin. He was also interested in science.

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He didn’t enjoy learning at Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. 

• True

• False

He didn’t like studying at Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. One teacher even told him that he would never get anywhere. At this time, Albert Einstein became interested in classical music and he learned to play the violin. He was also interested in science.

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Einstein couldn’t play the violin.

• True

• False

In the 1890s, Albert Einstein’s family moved to Milan, Italy. Einstein started studying at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich. His years in Zurich were some of the happiest years of his life. He became friends with many other students and met his future wife, Mileva Maric, a physics student from Serbia.

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He didn’t have a wife.        

• True

• False

Agatha Christie was a British ------------. She was born in England in 1890 and died there in 1976.

• player

• writer

• actress

She first started writing ------------ she was sixteen. Later, when she was a nurse, she had the idea for a detective story and she published her first novel in 1920.

• where

• how

• when

She was a very ------------ person, so she was happier to stay in and write than to meet people.

• shy

• left

• went

Agatha Christie eventually became one of the most ------------ writers in history. She wrote more than sixty novels, as well as plays and poetry, and sold more than two billion books.

• horrible

• exciting

• popular

There are translations of her books in more than 100 ------------. People love her works because the characters and the mysteries are so interesting.

• books

• languages

• stories