文档介绍：Unit Three TEXT I My Friend, Albert Einstein
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1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791), poser, one of the world’s great musical geniuses, wrote masterpieces in every branch of music. During his short life, posed a great volume of music. His positions include operas, symphonies, concertos, quartets for the piano and for stringed instruments, and sonatas for both piano and violin. His music has delicate beauty and is always fresh and pleasing to the ear.
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2. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827), poser, was one of music’s greatest geniuses. His works have a rare originality, emotional depth, and expressive power. He was known for his nine symphonies, piano concertos and sonatas, and string quartets. Most of Beethoven’positions were written in the classical forms established by his predecessors Mozart and Haydn, so he is sometimes considered the last poser in the classical tradition. But he also remolded and
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expanded the old forms and infused them with a highly personal intensity of emotion, so he is also referred to as the first of the Romantics.
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3. the Nobel Prize: Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833 – 1896), a distinguished Swedish chemist and industrialist, provided for the award of the Nobel Prizes. He experimented with different kinds of explosives such a nitroglycerin(硝化甘油)and dynamite(达纳炸药,氨爆炸药), both deadly explosives. However, he was a pacifist and he feared that his inventions might further warfare. In his will he left about $9,000,000 in a fund to reward those who did
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most for their fellow men in science, literature, and peace. In his will, he specified that the interest accrued by the fund “be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind” in the field of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace, regardless