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学 院： 专 业： 学 号： 姓 名： 教学班号__________ 云南农业大学2014—2015学年下学期期末考试试卷 2014级硕士研究生英语听力（B卷） （课程代码1402210676002-2-1） 温馨提示：本考试要求学生边听边做，同时将答案誊写到答卷的相对应的位置，录音结束5分钟后交卷。 本试题满分100分，考试时间120分钟。 题 号 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 总分 得 分 阅卷人 Part I. Blank Filling (30%, 2 points each) Directions: Fill in the blanks with the words you hear from the recording which will be read three times. Stephen Hawking was born on 8 January 1942, the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death. He has come to be thought as the greatest mind in physics since Albert Einstein. With similar interests-discovering the deepest workings of the universe-he has been able to communicate 1 matters not just to other physics but to the general public. Hawking grew up outside London in an intellectual family. He was an 2 schoolboy, but knew from early on that he wanted to study science. He became increasingly skilled in mathematics and in 1958 he and some friends built a 3 computer that actually worked. In 1959 he won a scholarship to Oxford University, where his intellectual capacities became more noticeable. After three years he got his degree in Natural Science with honors and went to Cambridge University to pursue a PhD in 4 . There he became 5 with black holes and “space-time 6 ”, or events in which the laws of physics seem to break down. After receiving his PhD, he stayed at Cambridge, becoming known even in his 20s for his pioneering ideas and use of Einstein’s formulas, as well as his questioning of older, established physics. In 1968 he joined the staff of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and began to apply the laws of 7 to black holes by means of very complicated mathematics. He made a startling discovery. It had always been thought that nothing could escape a black hole; Hawking suggested that under certain conditions, a black hole could emit 8 particles. That is now known as Hawking Radiation. He