If you come from a poor family and couldn’t go to a good school, could one book change your life? It did for Srinivasa, a bright young Indian boy. When he was 15 years old, he found a book about math. It was a book with 6,000 very difficult problems. While his friends played football on the road in front of his house, he worked out the answers to these problems. He answered them all by himself – without any help from anyone else. Then he thought of new problems and answered them too. Soon he was better at math than all of his teachers. A year later, Srinivasa was invited to study at university, even though he was really too young. However, he failed most of his exams. Why? Because he was only interested in math and didn’t care enough about his other subjects. He wrote about his ideas and sent his work to magazines. A British mathematician read his work and started writing letters to him. Later, he invited Srinivasa to go to England to study and work. In England, people didn’t care whether he was good at other subjects or not. By the time he was 30. Srinivasa, a poor boy who liked math better than playing football, had become one of the world’s most famous mathematicians.

1．Srinivasa was from __________

A．a large family                                             B．a rich family

C．a poor family                                             D．a small family

2．According to the passage, what changed his life?

A．A nice film.                                                B．A book about math. 

C．A football match.                                        D．An interesting magazine.

3．Who helped Srinivasa do the 6,000 math problems when he was 15?

A．His classmates                                           B．Nobody

C．His parents                                                D．His teachers.

4．When he was a university student in India, he failed most of his exams because _____.

A．he was not good at math                             B．he was not bright enough

C．the exam were too difficult                          D．he was only interested in math

5．The passage is mainly about _______

A．Srinivasa’s poor life

B．a helpful British mathematician

C．how Srinivasa became a famous mathematician

D．a useful math book