文档介绍：LESSON NINE
Against All Odds
Michael White and John Gribbin
Background
Warm-up Exercises
Language Understanding
Discussion
Stephen Hawking - a Life in Science (1992)
A nonfiction book by John Gribbin
This biography pays particular attention to Hawking's scientific achievement, as well as to the tragic progress of his illnesses and his extraordinary will to survive and to continue working despite major progressive handicap.
I am quite often asked how do you feel about having ALS?
The answer is, not a lot. I try to lead as normal a life as
possible, and not think about my condition, or regret the
things.
I have had motor neuron disease for practically all my
adult life. I could select words from a series of menus on
the screen, by pressing a switch in hands, head or eye
movement. A speech synthesizer fitted to my wheel chair
allowed me to write, talk. Yet it has not prevented me
from having a very attractive family, and ess in my
work. It gave me something to live for. I realised that
there were a lot of worthwhile things I could do I was
enjoying life in the present more than before. Thanks to
the help I have received from Jane, my children, and a
large number of other people I have been lucky, that my
condition has progressed more slowly than is often the
case. But it shows that one need not lose hope. ----Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking
Hawking, Stephen William (1942- ), British theoretical physicist and mathematician whose main field of research has been the beginning of the universe, and a unified theory of physics, the nature of space and time, including irregularities in space and time known as singularities(奇点).
Life experience:
born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England...
in 1958 he entered Oxford University.
in 1961 he attended a summer course at
the Royal Observatory.
in 1962 pleted his undergraduate
courses and received a bachelor’ s
degree in physics.
then Hawking