Shakespeare and Company is an English - language bookshop in the heart of Paris. It     1     (be) a meeting place for writers and readers for almost seventy years.

In 1951, a bookshop     2     (name) Le Mistral was opened by George Whitman. It was renamed Shakespeare and Company in 1964     3     honor of a bookseller he admired, Sylvia Beach, who founded the     4     (origin) Shakespeare and Company in 1919. Beach's bookstore had been a gathering place for great writers of the time, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Pound.

George's bookstore quickly became a center for literary life. From the first day, writers, artists, and intellectuals were invited     5     (sleep) for free among the shelves. Since then, an estimated 30, 000 people have stayed in the bookshop. Over the years, the shop     6     (gradual) grew. George said, “I     7     (create) this bookstore like a man would write a novel, building each room like     8     chapter, and I like people to open the door the way they open a book.”

Today George's novel, this bookshop, is still being written by George's child Sylvia, by a team of     9     (bookseller), and by the thousands of people     10     continue to read, write, and sleep at Shakespeare and Company.

The Nobel Prize is the most famous honor in the world. The prizes were first awarded on December 10, 1901. That was five years after the death of Alfred Nobel, the     1     (create) of the prizes. For many years, prizes were awarded in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. A     2     (six) award for economics was created in 1968.

Marie Curie was the first woman     3     (receive) the award, in 1903 in physics. She     4     (share) the award with her husband and another scientist. In 1911, she was awarded the prize in chemistry. Curie is one of the only two people ever to win Nobel Prizes in different areas.     5     (surprising), her daughter Irene also won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. They were the only mother-daughter pair to have won the prize.

The prize committees are made up     6     famous scholars and scientists. Nobel prize winners     7     (choose) very carefully. The voting is top secret. Prizes are presented to the winners every year on December 10. The prize winners are some of the most important people in the world.     8     (win) the award helps them continue their work. The Nobel Foundation awards cash, a diploma     9     a gold medal to each prize winner. The cash amount changes based on     10     it is given to one individual or shared among a group of people.