PART 2
For questions 6-12, decide if each sentence is TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN.
If it is True, mark A on your answer sheet.
If it is False, mark B on your answer sheet.
If it is NOT GIVEN, mark C on your answer sheet.
As a child, Albert Einstein was slow to speak. Even at the age of six, he did not
speak well. He thought for a long time before answering a question, and his parents
were afraid he was abnormal.
Einstein hated the strict discipline of school and certain subjects that required
memorization. His class teacher said he would never make a success of anything.
Einstein's formal secondary education ended at age sixteen. He disliked school,
and just as he was planning to find a way to leave without hurting his chances for
entering the university, his teacher expelled him because his bad attitude was
affecting his classmates.
Einstein tried to enter the Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland, but his
knowledge of subjects other than mathematics was not up, and he failed the
entrance examination.
On the advice of the principal, he first obtained his diploma at the Cantonal School
in Aarau, Switzerland, and in 1896 he was automatically admitted into the Federal
Institute of Technology in Switzerland. There he came to realize that he was more
interested in and better suited for physics than mathematics.
Thinking back on his childhood, Einstein felt that his backwardness actually
helped him. A “normal” adult does not stop to think about space and time, he said,
because he has already done so as a child. In his case, because he wondered about
the universe after he was grown, he went into it more deeply.
He tried to make life as simple as possible so that he would have more time for his
work. He wore his hair long in later years so he would not have to go to the barber,
and he felt socks were unnecessary.
Einstein died at the age of 76. He did not want a grave or monuments. He also did
not want his house turned into museum, and he wanted his office used by others.
He left his brain to research, but doctors found nothing unusual in its size, weight,
or formation.
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