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Marie Curie was the first female professor at Sevres, a college for girls who wanted to teach higher education. These twenty-year-olds would (1) become professors. Marie was not liked by her pupils during her first year as a professor. By her second year, the students loved her. One student reported that the courses taught by Marie were "the (2) reference during the entire length of my career. She didn’t dazzle us, she (3) us, attracted us, held us with her simplicity, her desire to be useful to us, the sense she had of both our ignorance and our (4) ." She was the first to take her students into the laboratory to physically manipulate their newly-learned theories. She also taught by example, and invited the physics class to hear the (5) of her dissertation (论文). Marie argued for the elimination of additional, difficult tests given only to the female students. She also (6) the dean to provide calculus c
A. trivial
B. convinced
C. possibilities
D. merely
E. reassured
F. impressive
G. opportunity
H. dispensable
I. derived
J. adaptabilities
K. eventually
L. defense
M. confused
N. determination