新标准大学英语综合教程3unit2.ppt

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Listen to a passage about Stephen Hawking’s view on death and answer questions.
Background information:
Stephen Hawking, born in 1942, is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. At age of 21, he was told that he had a progressive and incurable nerve disease and had only a few years to live.
Stephen Hawking
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Questions:
1. What does Hawking mean by saying “heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark”?
2. What made Hawking e one of the world's most famous scientists?
3. How did pare a brain to puter?
4. According to Hawking, how should we live?
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1. What does Hawking mean by saying “heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark”?
He means that he is not afraid of death. There is no heaven at all and only those who dare not face death will think they will go to heaven after death.
2. What made Hawking e one of the world's most famous scientists?
He became one of the world's most famous scientists with the publication of his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time."
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3. How did pare a brain to puter?
He regarded the brain as puter which will stop working when ponents fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-puters; therefore, there is no heaven or afterlife for the brain.
4. According to Hawking, how should we live?
He said, “We should seek the greatest value of our action”.
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“Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark,” the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said in an interview published on Monday.
Hawking, 69, was expected to die within a few years of being diagnosed with degenerative motor neuron disease at the age of 21, but became one of the world's most famous scientists with the publication of his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time."
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