1. Read the text and choose a word for each gap

Alfred Nobel was a famous Swedish chemist and 1. _____________. He was born in Stockholm in 1833. But he 2.___________ an education in St. Petersburg, Russia, and then in the United States. Alfred Nobel’s interest in technology was inherited from his father. He worked with his father in Russia. They were 3. _________ mines, torpedoes, and other explosives.
In a family-owned factory in Sweden, he developed a 4._________ way to handle nitroglycerine, after a factory explosion killed his younger brother and four other people.. In 1867 Nobel 5._________ his goal: he produced what he called dynamite. When we hear the name Nobel, we immediately think of the Nobel Prize. It is 6.________ for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, physiology, literature, and world peace.

1. A. invention B. invitation C. inventor
2. A. gave B. research C. received
3. A. discovered B. divided C. developing
4. A. risky B. dangerous C. safe
5. A. established B. received C. achieved
6. A. produced B. developed C. awarded