Question

1. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
(5)
1. For more than four exhausting years, the Polish-born Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre, worked in a large
dilapidated wooden shed near their Paris lodgings. This shed, which was like a hothouse in summer and
draughty and cold in winter, was the place where they spent the happiest years of their lives. It was here on a
September night in 1902 that they finally discovered the radioactive element that they named 'radium' from
the Latin word radius, meaning ‘ray'.
2. Radium provided the first effective treatment for some types of cancer, destroying the diseased human cells
by bombarding them with radioactive particles.
3. The Curies had spent the historic day pouring measures of purified pitchblende into some 6,000 evaporating
bowls. Marie Curie believed that the black mineral ore contained a completely new and dynamic element
whose rays could destroy unhealthy body tissues. By constantly filtering and re-filtering the pitchblende, she
hoped that the elusive element would crystallize in the bowls.
4. When they went home that evening the miracle had still not occurred. Then, just as they were about to
to bed, Marie decided to have another look at the particles in the bowls. She and Pierre hurried through the
dimly-lit streets.
5. They let themselves into the darkened shed-with its rows of wooden tables and clutter of laboratory
equipment--and Marie asked Pierre not to light the lamps. They moved cautiously forward and there, all
around them, rays of light came from inside the small glass-covered bowls, Marie turned to her husband and
said quietly, 'Do you remember the day you said to me: "I should like radium to have a beautiful colour?" Look
Look!
6. The bowls that lined the tables and the shelves on the walls gave off a soft, bluish-purple glow.
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Questions:
(a) Who researched on radium and where?
(b) How did they discover radium?
(c) Why did they decide to name the element so?
(d) Why was the discovery of radium important?
(e) Find a word from the passage which means the same as 'falling to pieces'.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. the Polish-born Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre researched on radium in a large dilapidated wooden shed near their Paris lodgings.
2. They decided to name the element as Radium ,from the Latin word radius, which means ‘ray'.
3. The discovery of Radium was important as it provided the first effective treatment for some types of cancer, destroying the diseased human cells by bombarding them with radioactive particles.

Explanation:

Sorry for b and e Question...... I could not make the answer of b properly and I didn't found the accurate word for falling to pieces.