unit1教材背景链接课件人教版选修7.ppt

Unit 1　Living well;Stephen 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 beginning 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. ;　　 In 1950，when his father became head of the division of parasitology(寄生虫学) at the National Institute for Medical Research，Hawking and his family moved to St Albans，Hertfordshire.The eight-year-old Hawking attended St Albans High School for Girls for a few months；at that time, younger boys could attend one of the houses.In St Albans，the family were considered highly intelligent and somewhat abnormal；meals often spent in silence with everyone’s 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.During one of;Hawking’s father’s frequent absences working in Africa，the rest of the family spent four months in Majorca visiting his mother’s 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 School.The family placed a high value on education.Hawking’s father wanted his son to attend the well-regarded Westminster School，but the 13-year-old 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 remained 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