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Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 Active Reading 2

Warming Up 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 More

Warming Up 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

Warming Up Questions: 1.What does Hawking mean by saying "heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark"? 2.What made Hawking become one of the world's most famous scientists? 3.How did Hawking compare a brain to a computer? 4.According to Hawking,how should we live? >Script More

Warming Up Questions: 1. What does Hawking mean by saying “heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark”? 2. What made Hawking become one of the world's most famous scientists? 3. How did Hawking compare a brain to a computer? 4. According to Hawking, how should we live? ➢Script

Warming Up a回 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 become 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." More

Warming Up 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 become 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

Warming Up 回 3. How did Hawking compare a brain to a computer? He regarded the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail.There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers;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". >Script More

Warming Up 3. How did Hawking compare a brain to a computer? He regarded the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; 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”. ➢Script

Warming Up O回 "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." "I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years.I'm not afraid of death,but I'm in no hurry to die.I have so much I want to do first,"he told the Guardian newspaper in London. lore

Warming Up “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." "I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first," he told the Guardian newspaper in London

Warming Up "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail.There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers;that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." When asked how we should live he said:"We should seek the greatest value of our action." As a result of his incurable illness Hawking can only speak through a voice synthesizer and is almost completely paralyzed.He sparked serious concerns in 2009 when he was hospitalized after falling seriously ill following a lecture tour in the United States but has since returned to Cambridge University as a director of research. End

Warming Up “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." When asked how we should live he said: “We should seek the greatest value of our action.” As a result of his incurable illness Hawking can only speak through a voice synthesizer and is almost completely paralyzed. He sparked serious concerns in 2009 when he was hospitalized after falling seriously ill following a lecture tour in the United States but has since returned to Cambridge University as a director of research

Text We Are All Dying

Text We Are All Dying

1 I have some good news and some bad news for We are all you (as the joke goes).The bad news-and I'm very dying sorry to be the bearer -is that we are all dying.It's true.I've checked it out. In fact,I've double and triple-checked it.I've had it substantiated and,well,there's no easy way to say it.we are dying. More. Translation

1 I have some good news and som e ba d news for you (as the joke goes). The bad news – and I'm very sorry to be the bearer – is that we are all dying. It's true. I've checked it out. In fact, I've double - and triple-checked it. I've had it substantiated and, well, there's no easy way to say it. we are dying