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What will you do if a doctor tells you that you have a serious illness and just have a few years to live? Will you give up all your hopes and wait to die? All those were the difficulties Stephen Hawking faced in 1963.

Stephen Hawking, one of the most famous scientists in the world, was born in 1942 in Oxford, England. He began his university education at University College, Oxford in 1959 at the age of seventeen.In 1963 he was diagnosed(诊断) with ALS(肌萎缩性脊髓侧索硬化症), and told that he might only have two more years to live. With the sudden realization that he might not even live long enough, Hawking poured himself into hard work day and night. “I felt it was very unfair—why should this happen to me,” he wrote in his 2013 book, “At the time, I thought my life was over. But now, 50 years later,I am pretty thankful for what I get in my life.” The illness left Hawking in a wheelchair and unable to speak. He had to depend on technology(技术). Luckily, a computer programmer developed a speaking program, which allowed Hawking to choose words on a computer screen. And then these words were passed through a speech synthesizer(合成器). With the help of this program, Stephen Hawking could continue to work. Over the years, he wrote fifteen books,such as A Brief History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell and The Grand Design.

On March 14, 2018, Hawking died at his home peacefully in Cambridge, England. The news touched people around the world. We have lost a great mind and a wonderful spirit, but his work will live on forever. As he once said, “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet.”

1.Did Stephen Hawking get a feeling of satisfaction in his life at last?

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2.How long did Hawking live?

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3.How could Hawking go on working after he got the bad illness?

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4.Are you afraid of difficulties in life? Why or why not? (with less than 30 words)

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A lady, in a plain(朴素的)cotton dress, and her husband, dressed in a homemade suit, stepped off a train. They walked into a university president’s office without an appointment(约定).

“We want to see the president,” the man said softly.

“He’ll be busy all day,” the secretary said.

“We’ll wait,” the lady replied.

For two hours, the secretary didn’t pay any attention to them, hoping the couple would give up and go away. They didn’t. The secretary finally decided to tell the president about it. The president agreed to meet them. But clearly, he didn’t want to do so. When the couple went into the president’s office, the lady said: “We had a son who ever studied in this university for one year. He loved here very much but he died last year. We would like to give a building to the university.”

The president glanced at(瞥了一眼)the cotton dress and homemade suit, and then said, “A building! Do you have any idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars worth of buildings at the university.” For a moment the lady was silent.

The president was pleased. He thought the couple could go away now.

The lady turned to her husband and said quietly: “Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don’t we just start our own?” Her husband nodded.

根据短文内容,回答下列问题。

1.Where did the conversation happen?

2.Why did the couple want to see the president?

3.How much are the buildings at the university worth?

4.How did the president feel when he found the lady was silent?

5.At last, what did the couple probably plan to do?

1.这场歌剧演了一个半小时。The opera ____________________________________.

2.看着这块水彩印, 我决定吹一吹。

___________________________ , I decided ________________________

3.后来我确实创作出一些精彩的画。

I _________________________________________________________________.

4.爵士音乐家们很棒,因为他们在弹奏时编曲。

Jazz _____________________________because _________________________________

5.民乐是以传统的方式演奏的,有很浓的地方特色。

Folk is played _________________, and it has _________________________________.

6.他建议今晚去参加音乐会,但是我宁愿待在家里看电视。

He ___________________________, but __________________________________________

7.我妹妹擅长唱歌,大家都认为她真有唱歌天赋。

My sister _____________________________, everyone thinks ______________________.

8.为什么人们对谭盾的音乐高度赞扬? 因为他创作了一种新型的音乐— 音乐无界。

Why do people_________________________ Tan Dun’s music? ______________ he has created a new type of music—____________________________________________.

9.北京奥运会音乐运用了传统的中国音乐和中国古代编钟的声音,虽然这是用的西方的风格。

The music for the Beijing Olympics uses__________________________________________, though it is in a Western style.

10.这是大自然的声音,它们在不同人的脑海里会产生不同的画面

They’re_________________________, and they _____________________

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