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TEST 3 UNIT 9: SCIENCE

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Stephen William Hawking was an English
theoretical physicist and mathematician. He was born in Oxford, England
on January 8, 1942. He is one of the most famous scientists of modern times. Also, he was one of
the world's leading theoretical physicists. He came to Cambridge in 1962 as a PhD student. While he
was working on his PhD at Cambridge University, he began to have health issues. Doctors diagnosed
a disease called ALS when he was 21. Because of the illness, he could not move or talk. Despite his
challenging physical impairments, he contributed much to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity.
He published many articles about these fields. He is also well known for his bestselling book "A Brief
History of Time". Some of the awards Hawking received for his work include the 1979 Albert Einstein
Medal, the Order of the British Empire (Commander) in 1982 and the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics. He
was the director of research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology and he worked on a subject
called Black Hole Information Paradox before he died in March 14, 2018.

According to the text above, we can say that .................. .

A) he didn’t continue to work on cosmology and quantum gravity after 1962 because of his illness called ALS
B) he was one of the most successful scientists of all times and he won many awards during his lifetime
C) he wrote many books on cosmology and mathematics, but only one of his books became very popular all over the
world
D) he decided to go on to Cambridge to research cosmology, but his disease didn’t let him to do that

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1950s 1960s 1970s
1956 - TV remote control 1964 - Home kidney dialysis 1974 - Barcodes on
supermarket products
1958 - The ultrasonic image of 1969 - Astronauts make the first
an unborn child steps on the Moon 1975 - Birth of home computer

1980s 1990s 2000s
1991 - The first Internet browser 2001 - Scientists insert bionic
1981 - CDs go on sale eyes into retinas of blind
1997 - Dolly the sheep, first men to restore their
1983 - Synthetic human insulin cloned animal from an vision
for sale
adult cell 2003 - The first hybrid car

Which of the following can be said according to the information in the visual above?

A) The scientific developments both in 1958 and 1964 are in the field of medicine.
B) Scientists did nothing to improve transportation and space travel since the 1950s.
C) There is no scientific developments about computer technology during the last fifty years.
D) The scientific developments in medicine are less than other fields of science in the forty - seven years.

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