Lesson D  Reading and writing

Amazing
Achievements:
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking is one of the most
famous scientists in the world today.
He uses mathematics to study space
and the universe. He has written
several famous books. He wrote
A Brief History of Time in 1988,
and more than 10 million people have
bought this book. Other scientists
have called Hawking the greatest
scientist in the world.
Hawking has faced terrible problems
in his life. When he was 21, he got
a serious disease called ALS. The
disease quickly got worse, and soon
he couldn’t walk or speak. Now he
can move only his left hand. He uses
a wheelchair with a motor to get
around. He “talks” by typing words
into a computer. The computer
pronounces the words for him.
But for Hawking, his work is more important than his traveled in countries around the world, and he has even
problems. Now he is interested in the beginning of traveled in space! In 2007, he went up on a special zero-
the universe. He teaches at Cambridge University in gravity plane.
England, and he gives lectures at other universities.
He has written many important scientific papers and Hawking’s achievements are truly amazing. Even though
has won many prizes for his work. He has appeared in his body is in a wheelchair, his mind explores the
several movies and has been on TV many times. He has universe.

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