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北师大版英语九年级全册 Unit 3 Creativity 单元测试卷
Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh(1853-1890) killed himself by shooting himself in the chest(胸膛).
This is what van Gogh himself told his brother, the doctors and the police just before he died.
However, in a new book Van Gogh: The Life, two Pulitzer (普利策奖) Prize-winning authors, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, argue that van Gogh may have been murdered. They believed that the artist was protecting a 16-year-old boy named Rene Secret, who shot him accidentally.
Van Gogh's statement that he shot himself was accepted because he had been mentally unstable(精神状况不稳的) for two years. He suffered from psychotic(精神病的) attacks and imagined things that were not really happening. Art critics (评论家) believe that his unstable mental state is shown in his work, describing his style of painting as shaken. Some of his most famous paintings, such as The Starry Night, were produced during this period.
Van Gogh is among a number of creative minds who suffered from mental health problems. In fact, mental illness is so common among famous creative figures that scientists have studied whether there is link between creativity and insanity(精神错乱). Research began in the 1970s, but the idea that an unstable mind could be linked to creative genius(天才) was already around in ancient Greece.
Some scientists believe mental illness, in its more manageable state, gives artists creativity. Research has found that doing creative activities can also be therapeutic(有疗效的) for people suffering from mental illness. Painting, writing, or making something can be a positive way for people to express their thoughts.
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French scientist Pierre Curie lived from 1859 to 1906, while Marie Curie lived from 1867 to 1934.They met at the Sorbonne where Marie was a student and Pierre was a professor(教授)of Physics. Together, they discovered "Radium". They won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. Marie Curie was the first woman who became a Physics professor at the Sorbonne. And in 1911, she won a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor who lived from 1847 to 1931 and invented over 1, 000 inventions in his lifetime. Two of the most important inventions were the light bulb and the phonograph(留声机), the first thing to record sound. Edison set up a lab in New Jersey in 1876. He made a lot of money by selling one of his earlier inventions. |
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Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi lived from 1874 to 1937.His most important invention was wireless telegraph(无线电报).In 1899, he invented a machine that made it possible to send wireless messages across the country. In 1901, his machine made it possible for the first message to be sent across the Atlantic Ocean. Marconi won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics. |
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Alexander Bell invented one of the most widely used inventions of all times-the telephone. He lived from 1847 to 1922, first in Edinburgh, Scotland, then in Canada, and finally in the United States. He invented the first telephone in 1876 which made it possible for voices to be sent. Bell was also interested in inventions which helped the people who couldn't hear well. |
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