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__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Branches of science Why? Biology Chemistry Physics Maths Computer science Essential to protecting the ecological balance and environment。 Post reading ★ How did Hawking face the situation Discussion Skimming 1. What’s Hawking’s life like? 2. What does he think a scientist should be like and how science should work? Because he is disabled, his life must be full of hardships, as we can see from the picture. A scientist should know that his job is never finished and that even the best theory can turn out to be wrong and science is not about “true” facts that never change. Scan the text to answer the following questions. 1. Why did Stephen Hawking need a PhD? 2. When did Hawking bee famous? 3. When did Hawking visit Beijing? He needed a PhD so that he could get a job and get married. He became famous in the early 1970s. In 2020. 1. What kind of student was Steven Hawking when he was in university? 2. What did he suffer from and what might have happened to him? 3. Did he think of giving up his work on PhD? 4. Why did he go on with his research later? 5. What is his research about? 6. What made him famous in the early 1970s? 7. Why did A Brief History of Time bee a bestseller? Scanning 1 Why did Stephen Hawking think, “There did not seem much point in working on my Ph