A Nobel Prize is considered by most people one of the highest international honours a person can receive．As you know，the prizes were started by a Swedish called Alfred Nobel．He was born in Stockholm，the capital of Sweden．Alfred Nobel was a great scientist．He made two important inventions，and so he became very rich．Although he was rich，Nobel was not a happy man．He never married or had children．Also，he was a sick man during his large part of life．When he died at the age of 63, he left a fund of$9,000,000．The money was to be used in giving prizes to those who made great achievements in physics，chemistry(化學(xué))，medicine and literature, and for world peace．

    The first Nobel Prizes were given on December 10, 1901，five years after Nobel’s death．Since then many famous people from all over the world have been given Nobel Prizes for their achievements．

    Each prize has three parts．The first part is a gold medal．Second，a winner of a Nobel Prize is given a diploma, saying that he has been given the prize．The third part of the prize is a large amount of money---about$40,000．

    Often a prize is given to just one person，but not always．Sometimes a prize is shared．It

may be given to two or more people who have worked together．It is also sometimes true that a prize is not given at all if there is no great achievement．In 1972，for example，no Nobel Peace Prize was given．

31．What kind of person would you say Alfred Nobel was?

    A．He was a rich happy and lucky man．

    B．He was a poor, unhappy and unlucky man．

    C．He was a rich, but unhappy and unlucky man．

    D．He was a poor, but happy and lucky man．

32．When he died，Nobel left a large amount of money____________．

    A．to his wife                        B．to his children   

    C．for helping the poor people in Sweden  D．for setting five prizes

33．The underlined word “diploma” in the passage most probably means__________．

    A．certificate          B．letter          C．ticket        D．card

34．How many persons is a Noble Prize given to? 

    A．Not always one person．              B．Two persons．

    C．Only one person．                   D．Three persons

In 1995，Oseola McCarty gave a present of $150 000 to the University of Southern Mississippi. She wanted to help poor students. It was a very generous thing to do. But her friends and neighbors were surprised. McCarty was a good woman. She went to church. She was always friendly and helpful. But everyone in her town knew that McCarty was not rich. In fact，she was poor.
How did a poor 86-year-old woman have so much money？ Oseola McCarty was born in 1908 in Hattiesburg，Mississippi. She had to leave school when she was eight years old to help her family. She took a job washing clothes. She earned only a few dollars a day. Oseola washed the clothes by hand. Then she hung the clothes to dry. She did this for nearly 80 years. In the 1960s，she bought an automatic washer and dryer. But she gave them away. She did not think they got the clothes clean enough！At that time，many people started to buy their own washers and dryers. McCarty did not have much work， so she started to iron clothes instead.
McCarty never married or had children. Her life was very simple. She went to work and to church. She read her Bible （圣經(jīng)）。She had a black-and-white television. But she did not watch it very much. It had only one channel.
McCarty saved money all her life and eventually had about $250 000. When she was 86，a lawyer helped her make a will. She left money to the church，her relatives，and the university. McCarty just wanted to help others. She did not think she was a special person. But then people found out about her present to the university. She received many honors （榮譽(yù)）。She even flew in an airplane for the first time！Oseola McCarty died in 1999. She was a shy and ordinary woman who became famous.
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【小題1】Oseola McCarty gave $150 000 to the University of Southern Mississippi _______.