Question

【題目】 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

【答案】

【1】C

【2】B

【3】B

【4】A

【解析】

這是一篇記敘文。文章主要講述霍金面對疾病沒退縮，更加積極工作和生活的故事。

【1】

細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段“Yet two years had gone by and I was not that much worse.”可知，霍金的病已經(jīng)過去兩年了，但是病情沒有惡化，所以霍金應該是兩年前生病的。故選C項。

【2】

細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)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，霍金得了一種不治之癥，活不過12個月，所以他認為博士學位對于他沒有任何意義，因為不久之后就要死了。故選B項。

【3】

細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)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世紀70年代初期，霍金和Roger Penrose對宇宙大爆炸和黑洞有了新的發(fā)現(xiàn)，從而讓他們聞名于世。故選B項。

【4】

推理判斷題。根據(jù)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，霍金在疾病面前并沒有屈服，過上了另一種生活，繼續(xù)探索宇宙并且巡回演講。同時，在20世紀70年代與Roger Penrose對宇宙大爆炸和黑洞又有了新發(fā)現(xiàn)。這些事情都證明了霍金“有志者事竟成”。故選A項。