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Learning aims to memorize the important words and phrases to revise the texts to practice reading excercises Ⅰ Dictation Ⅱ Cloze test 1. Read the passage about Stephen Hawking and fill in the following blanks. Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous scientists in the world partly because of his scientific discoveries and partly because of his physical disability. ___________ in 1942 in Oxford and ______________ from Oxford University, he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Victims of this disease cannot move and cannot speak _________ their brains may work ______________. In Stephen Hawking’s case it was discovered ___________ he was a brilliant scientist. ___________ in a wheelchair and speaking through a special computer, he has become the voice of science. He has spent his career at Cambridge University, ___________ he became Professor of Physics in 1977. His work was in the area of cosmology and he ________ about black holes in space. His book A Brrief History of Time __________ (publish) in 1988 and is till a best-seller. 2. Read passage “The Student Who Ask Questions”and then fill in the blanks. Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist, is a leading figure in the rice-growing world. He was born and brought up in China. As a boy he ________________ in many schools and __________ | 
