【全国英语等级考试四级】Unit 5 Great man I- passage (5/5)

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Unit 5 Great man I- passage (5/5)
        Hints:
        Albert Einstein
Princeton
        12-year-old
         
There, he received an invitation from the United States, and was offered a lifetime professorship by an institute. He accepted, but asked so small a salary that to maintain its own pay scale the institute had to give him more than he requested.
Such behavior was characteristic of Einstein. He had little interest in money, though he could have been very wealthy. In his eyes, money was a kind of raw material. Once he used acheck for $1,500 as a bookmark, then he lost the book. On another occasion he turned down an offer of $1,000 a minute to speak on the radio.
The great man lived quietly in Princeton but often had visitors, like the 12-year-old girl who for a time had the habit of visiting him on her way from school. Later he explained to the puzzled mother, "Oh, she brings me cookies, and I do her arithmetic homework for her."