Question

    Imagine this: you are twenty-one years old and a promising graduate student at one of the top universities in the world. One day, your doctor tells you that you have an incurable disease and may not have more than twelve months to live. How would you feel? What would you do? Here is what Stephen Hawking thought:

（There did not seem) much point in working on my PhD-I did not expect to survive that long. Yet two years had gone by and I was not that much worse. In fact, things were going rather well for me and I had got engaged to a very nice girl, Jane Wilde. But in order to get married, I needed a job,and in order to get a job, I needed a PhD.

Instead of giving up, Hawking went on with his research, got his PhD and married Jane. Nor did he let the disease stop him from living the kind of life he had always dreamt of. He continued his exploration of the universe and travelled around the world to give lectures. As his disease has disabled him, Hawking has to sit in his now-famous wheelchair and speak through a computer. He talked about his theories and thoughts on some of the greatest questions: What is time, how did the universe begin,and what exactly are black holes?

Hawking became famous in the early 1970s, when he and American Roger Penrose made new discoveries about the Big Bang and black holes. Since then, Hawking has continued to seek answers to questions about the nature of the universe. In 1988, he wrote A Brief History of Time, which quickly became a best-seller. Readers were pleased and surprised to find that a scientist could write about his work in a way that ordinary people could understand. The book sold more than 5.5 million copies in 33 different languages.

1.According to the quote in paragraph 2, when was Stephen Hawking told about his disease?

A.Twelve months earlier. B.When he was getting married.

C.Two years earlier. D.When he met Jane Wilde.

2.Why did Stephen Hawking think: “There did not seem much point in working on my PhD?”

A.Because there was no point in being a PhD. B.Because he thought he would die soon.

C.Because there was no hope of being PhD. D.Because he had no place to work.

3.What made Hawking known to the world in 1970s?

A.His book A Brief History of Time. B.His discovery about the Big Bang and black hole.

C.His fighting against the disease. D.His lectures to university students.

4.What can we learn from Steven Hawking?

A.Where there is a will,there is a way. B.Every road leads to Rome.

C.Practice makes perfect. D.Better late than never.

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.B

4.A

【解析】

这是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述霍金面对疾病没退缩，更加积极工作和生活的故事。

1.

细节理解题。根据文章第二段“Yet two years had gone by and I was not that much worse.”可知，霍金的病已经过去两年了，但是病情没有恶化，所以霍金应该是两年前生病的。故选C项。

2.

细节理解题。根据文章第一段“One day, your doctor tells you that you have an incurable disease and may not have more than twelve months to live.”和第二段“I did not expect to survive that long.”可知，霍金得了一种不治之症，活不过12个月，所以他认为博士学位对于他没有任何意义，因为不久之后就要死了。故选B项。

3.

细节理解题。根据文章最后一段“Hawking became famous in the early 1970s, when he and American Roger Penrose made new discoveries about the Big Bang and black holes.”可知，在20世纪70年代初期，霍金和Roger Penrose对宇宙大爆炸和黑洞有了新的发现，从而让他们闻名于世。故选B项。

4.

推理判断题。根据文章第三段“Nor did he let the disease stop him from living the kind of life he had always dreamt of. He continued his exploration of the universe and travelled around the world to give lectures.”和最后一段“Hawking became famous in the early 1970s, when he and American Roger Penrose made new discoveries about the Big Bang and black holes.”可知，霍金在疾病面前并没有屈服，过上了另一种生活，继续探索宇宙并且巡回演讲。同时，在20世纪70年代与Roger Penrose对宇宙大爆炸和黑洞又有了新发现。这些事情都证明了霍金“有志者事竟成”。故选A项。