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Imagine this：you are twenty-one years old and a promising graduate student研究生 at one of the top universities in the world．One day, your doctor tells you that you have an incurable治不好的 disease and may not have more than twelve months to live．How would you feel? What would you do? Most of us would probably feel very sad and give up our dreams and hopes for the future．Here is what Stephen Hawking thought： (There did not seem) much point in working on my PhD博士学位-I did not expect to survive that long．Yet two years had gone by and I was not that much worse．In fact, things were going rather well for me and I had got engaged忙碌的 to a very nice girl, Jane Wilde．But in order to get married, I needed a job，and in order to get a job，I needed a PhD． Instead of giving up，Hawking went on with his research研究调查，got his PhD and married Jane．Nor did he let the disease stop him from living the kind of life he had always dreamt of．He continued his exploration of the universe and traveled around the world to give lectures演讲．In 2002，Hawking visited China and spoke to university students in Hangzhou and Beijing．As his disease has disabled him，Hawking has to sit in his now-famous wheelchair and speak through a computer．He told the students about his theories理论 and thoughts on some of the greatest questions：What is time，how did the universe begin，and what exactly are black holes? Hawking became famous in the early 1970s，when he and American Roger Penrose made new discoveries about the Big Bang宇宙大爆炸 and black holes．Since then，Hawking has continued to seek answers to questions about the nature of the universe．In 1988，he wrote A Brief 摘要History of Time，which quickly became a best-seller畅销书．Readers were pleased and surprised to find that a scientist could write about his work in a way that ordinary people could understand． In the book．Hawking explains both what it means to be a scientist and how science works．He tells readers how discoveries are made and how they change the world．Science，accordi