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Unit Two True Love Section A Pre-reading Questions 1. What’s the most moving love story you’ve ever heard? How did it end? 2. What’s your opinion on true love? Will it last forever? 3. In your opinion, what makes or breaks a couple? Love is an eternal theme of mankind. Perhaps we all know Stephen Hawking as a genius physicist, who is famous for his book ?A Brief History of Time. But this text will let you see another side of Hawking’s, and his love story with a woman called Jane wilde. Wilde’s Love for Hawking 1 When Jane Wilde married a young research student named Stephen Hawking in 1965, she already knew he was seriously ill. A school friend broke the news a couple of years before, saying that Stephen was suffering from “some terrible, paralyzing, incurable disease.” This is probably a fair illustration of what was known then about motor neurone disease, long before the worldwide success of A Brief History of Time and Stephen’s battle against the illness combined to raise its public profile. 2 There is little doubt that Jane Wilde’s appearance on the scene was a major turning-point in Stephen Hawking’s life. The two of them began to see a lot more of one another and a strong relationship developed. It was finding Jane that facilitated him to break out of his depression and regenerate some belief in his life and work. For Hawking, his engagement to Jane was probably the most important thing that ever happened to him. It changed his life, gave him something to look forward to and made him determined to survive. Without the help that Jane gave him, he would almost certainly not have been capable of carrying on or had the will to do so. 3 They married in July of 1965. Hawking himself has said that what really made a difference was that he got engaged to a woman named Jane Wilde. This gave him something to live for. 4 In the memoirs, Music to Move the Stars, written by Jane Hawking, what is striking about her account of their courtship is her readin