Unit 3 - 3.3 Stephen Hawking English - Unit 3 - 3.3 Stephen Hawking

Fill in the blanks:
(a) Two scientists other than Stephen Hawking mentioned in this passage are ___________ and ____________.
(b) Hawking was ___ years old when he was admitted into a medical clinic.
(c) Hawking first began to notice problems with his physical health while he was at _________.

Arrange the following in order of occurrence:
(a) Hawking is admitted into a medical clinic.
(b) Hawking notices problems with his physical health while at Oxford and later at Cambridge.
(c) Hawking undergoes a series of tests.
(d) Hawking's father takes him to see a doctor.
(e) Hawking's father takes notice of the condition.

Fill in the blanks:
(a) Hawking claimed that he could think in _____ dimensions.
(b) Cosmology is the study of the big. ___________ is the study of the small.
(c) _____________ is a single unifying theory that can combine cosmology with quantum mechanics..

The following incidents in Stephen Hawking's life are given in jumbled order. Arrange the incidents in proper sequence as per their order of occurrence in Hawking's life :
(a) Hawking authored 'A Briefer History of Time' that contained the newest developments.
(b) Hawking's book 'A Brief History of Time' spent more than four years atop the London Sunday Times'.
(c) Hawking's book "The Universe in a Nutshell' offered an illustrated guide to cosmology's big theories.
(d) Hawking published the book 'A Brief History of Time' that offered an overview of space and time.

Answer in one word :
(1) At what age was Stephen diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?
(2) Over the years, how many books has Stephen written or co-written?
(3) When did Stephen catapult to international prominence?
(4) In which year was his life story depicted?

Complete the following:
(a) A decade is a period of _____.
(b) _______ refers to the formless matter supposed to have existed before the creation of the universe.
(c) To _____ one's speech is to speak (words) indistinctly so that the sounds run into one another.

Complete The Following Map :

Complete the following: What is Hawking convinced of?

Complete the table:

Name of Hawking's book	Central Idea	Conclusion
	God could not have created ________	_________ was the inevitable consequence of laws of physics and nothing more.

Record the occurrence according to the time chart:

Complete the following:
(a) A decade is a period of _____.
(b) _______ refers to the formless matter supposed to have existed before the creation of the universe.
(c) To _____ one's speech is to speak (words) indistinctly so that the sounds run into one another.

Write sentences using the given phrases:
(a) lay out
(b) be the consequence of
(c) is compatible with.

Match the words in Column A with their meanings in Column B:

'A'	'B'
(a) unifying	(a) agreeable
(b) compatible	(b) unavoidable
(c) inevitable	(c) unplanned
(d) spontaneous	(d) joining

Write words ending in -ity' using the words given :
(a) unify (b) possible (c) compatible (d) inevitable.

Find out the antonyms from the passage for the following:
(i) worst (ii) exclude (iii) duplicate (iv) oldest

He didn't look into the problem until 1963. (Rewrite without 'didn't.)

He would trip and fall or slur his speech. (Rewrite using 'not only... but also...'.)

Hawking first began to notice problems with his physical health while he was at Oxford.
(Frame a 'Wh-' question to get the underlined part as answer.)

Underline the determiners:
The Grand Design was Hawking's first major publication in almost a decade.

Add question tags:
(a) The Big Bang was the inevitable consequence of the laws of physics.
(b) There is something rather than nothing.

Explain in your own words the following statement made by Stephen Hawking: That I was an atypical case.

You must have suffered from some illness or sickness. Mention two or three symptoms.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Justify your stand/answer by quoting a line from the passage:
(a) Hawking believed that man cannot live on other planets in the future.
(b) The Big Bang was a natural occurrence.

Do you believe that there is a God? Why?

Stephen Hawking was a versatile personality. Justify.