Unit - 7 : A Visit to Cambridge English - Unit - 7 : A Visit to Cambridge

The garden was as big as a park, but Stephen Hawking covered every inch, rumbling along in his motorised wheelchair while I dodged to keep out of the way. We couldn't talk very much; the sun made him silent, the letters on his screen disappearing in the glare An hour later, we were ready to leave. I didn't know what to do. I could not kiss him or cry.
I touched his shoulder and wheeled out into the summer evening. I looked back, and I knew he was waving, though he wasn't. Watching him, an embodiment of my bravest self, the one I was moving towards, the one I had believed in for so many years, alone, I knew that my journey was over. For now.
1. What is the difference in a garden and a park?
2. What type of wheelchair Hawking has ?
3. How long did the author stay there?
4. How did the author express his gratitude ?
5. Find the one word from the passage which means, "public garden".
6. Find the opposites of the following from the passage :
(i) uncovered
(ii) small

Surely, I wanted to say, living creatively with the reality of his disintegrating body was a choice ? But I kept quiet, because I felt guilty every time: I spoke to him, forcing him to respond. There he was, tapping at the little switch in his hand, trying to find the words on his computer with the only bit of movement left to him, his long, pale fingers.
Every so often, his eyes would shut in frustrated exhaustion. And sitting opposite him I could feel his anguish, the mind buoyant with thoughts that came out in frozen phrases and sentences stiff as corpses.
1. Why did the author feel guilty ?
2. Where was the computer ?
3. Why would his eyes shut ?
4. How did the thoughts come out ?
5. Write the one word for the following sentence, "all that is real".
6. Find the opposites of the following from the passage :
(i) unwanted
(ii) integrating

Cambridge was my metaphor for England, and it was strange that when I left it had become altogether something else, because I had met Stephen Hawking there. It was on a walking tour through Cambridge that the guide mentioned Stephen Hawking, 'poor man, who is quite disabled now, though he is a worthy successor to Issac Newton, whose Chair he has at the university And I started, because I had quite forgotten that this most brilliant and compeletely paralysed astrophysicist, the author of A Brief History of Time, one of the biggest best-sellers ever, lived here.
1. What is Cambridge ?
2. Name Prof. Hawking's best seller.
3. How much paralysed is Stephen Hawking ?
4. What is Hawking by profession! Wahl,
5. Write the one word for the following sentence, "institution that teaches and examines students in many branches of advanced learning, awards, degrees and providing facilities for academic research".
6. Find the opposites of the following from the passage :
(i) abled
(ii) unworthy

Why does the writer refer to the guitar incident ? Which idea does it support?

What is the scientist's message for the disabled ?

What endeared the scientist to the| writer so that he said he was looking at one of the most beautiful men in the world?

Stephen Hawking said. “I've had no choice." Does the writer think there was a choice? What was it ?