ЕГЭ по английскому языку (аудирование №10)

Speaker 1
Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. His father was a salesman who later became a factory boss. His mother, Pauline, had a fright the night that Albert was born. The future scientist had a very large and oddly shaped head. Happily his head became more ‘in proportion’ as he grew, but the young Einstein further worried his parents he couldn’t speak properly or at least with fluency appropriate for his age until he was nine years old.

Speaker 2
Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 to a Serbian family in a small village then in the Austrian Empire. Legend has it that the night he was born there was an electrical storm and the sky was filled with lightening. His long journey to success as a physicist was equally stormy. He suffered major losses. People he trusted let him down. In fact, he had so many problems on the road to wealth and fame that at times he even had to work as a labourer digging ditches.

Speaker 3
Niels Bohr was born in Denmark in 1855. His father was a noted Physiologist and his mother was wealthy and well connected. Niels and his elder brother Harald grew up to become famous football players. Harald even played for the national football team and represented Denmark in the Olympics. But it was Niels who eventually became the most famous brother. At the age of 37 he got the Nobel Prize and became one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century.

Speaker 4
Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva was born in Kiev 19th November 1876. After her father died she was brought up by her uncle in St. Petersburg and attended a pedagogical school and college for women. In 1902 she travelled to Holland where she met and married Paul Ehrenfest. She soon, alongside her husband, established herself as one of the great mathematicians of her age. They had 2 children, one of whom Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest also became a noted mathematician.

Speaker 5
Marie Curie was Polish but later became a citizen of France. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first person honoured with two Nobel Prizes. Although a French citizen, she never lost her sense of Polish identity. Regardless of how famous and admired she always remembered her Polish childhood. In fact, she lived there until the age of 24. She named the first new chemical element that she discovered after her native country ‘polonium’. In 1932 she founded the Radium Institute in her home town Warsaw.

Speaker 6
Max Planck was born in Kiel, Germany. He was the sixth child in a family devoted to the church and state. At school he succeeded very well in all subjects and he was especially interested in physics and mathematics. He found it difficult to make a decision on what career he was going to aim for, finally settling for physics. But he was also an excellent piano player. Another passion of his was hiking, mountain climbing and taking long walks as regularly as possible.