Question

Stephen Hawking was born in 1942．He's a world famous scientist and expert on space and time．

Stephen is trying to find the answers to some very big questions, such as：How did the universe begin? How will it end?

Stephen studied math and science when he was a student at university．Then，at the age of twenty, he became very ill. He was so young，but the doctors said to his family, “He has only two more years to live．"The doctors were wrong--he didn't die．He can't walk now but he uses a wheelchair．He talks with the help of a computer．After Oxford，Stephen went to Cambridge University．Three years later, in 1965，he became a doctor of philosophy（哲学）．

    Because of his health problems，it was difficult for him to draw diagrams or to write, so he started to think in pictures. With this new way of thinking．he became one of the most famous scientists in the world．In 1981，he met the Pope（教皇）in Rome．They talked about his ideas．Then in l988，he wrote his first important book．A Brief History of Time《时间简史》．It sold more than 5.5 million copies（册）in 333 different languages．

1．What did Stephen Hawking study at Oxford University?

2．In which year did he become very ill?

3．How old was Stephen Hawking when he wrote A Brief History of Time?

4．What did the doctors think of his disease?

5．What kind of person do you think Stephen Hawking is?

Answer 1

1．He studied math and science there．／Math and science．

2．In 1962．

3．He was 46（years old）．

4．The doctors thought that he had two more years to live．，He had two more years to live．／He would die．／He could not be saved．

5．He is a person／man who never gives up．／He is great／He is very famous．