高中英语 Unit1 Unit 1Living well教材背景链接课件 新人教版选修7

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1、Unit 1Living wellStephen Hawking Stephen Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 to Frank and Isobel Hawking.Despite family financial constraints，both parents had attended Oxford University，where Frank had studied medicine and Isobel Philosophy，Politics and Economics.The two met shortly after the beginni

2、ng of the Second World War at a medical research institute where Isobel was working as a secretary and Frank as a medical researcher.Hawking began his schooling at the Byron House School；he later blamed its “progressive methods” for his failure to learn to read while at the school.教材背景链接教材背景链接 In 19

3、50，when his father became head of the division of parasitology(寄生虫学寄生虫学) at the National Institute for Medical Research，Hawking and his family moved to St Albans，Hertfordshire.The eightyearold Hawking attended St Albans High School for Girls for a few months；at that time, younger boys could attend o

4、ne of the houses.In St Albans，the family were considered highly intelligent and somewhat abnormal；meals often spent in silence with everyones nose in a book，reading in silence.They lived a frugal existence in a large，cluttered，and poorly maintained house，and travelled in a converted London taxicab.D

5、uring one of Hawkings fathers frequent absences working in Africa，the rest of the family spent four months in Majorca visiting his mothers friend Beryl and her husband，the poet Robert Graves.On their return to England，Hawking attended Radlett School for a year and from September 1952，St Albans Schoo

6、l.The family placed a high value on education.Hawkings father wanted his son to attend the wellregarded Westminster School，but the 13yearold Hawking was ill on the day of the scholarship examination.His family could not afford the school fees without the financial aid of a scholarship，so Hawking rem

7、ained at St Albans. Although at school he was known as “Einstein”，Hawking was not initially successful academically.With time，he began to show considerable talent for scientific subjects，and inspired by Tahta，decided to study mathematics at university.Hawkings father advised him to study medicine，co

8、ncerned that there were few jobs for mathematics graduates.He wanted Hawking to attend University College，Oxford，his own alma mater.As it was not possible to read mathematics there at the time，Hawking decided to study physics and chemistry.Despite his headmasters advice to wait till the next year，Ha

9、wking was awarded a scholarship after taking the examinations in March 1959. Read the text carefully and then answer the following question. 1Why did Hawking fail to obtain the scholarship when he was 13 years old? _ 2Was Hawking academically successful at school at first? _ Keys：1.Because of his illness. 2.No，he wasnt initially successful acedemically.