Question

A Visit to Cambridge
A. Answer the following questions.
1. Every so often, his eyes would shut in frustrated exhaustion. And sitting opposite him I could feel his anguish, the mind buoyant with thoughts that came out in frozen phrases and sentences stiff as corpses.
(a) Who is being described in the above lines and by whom?
(b) What was the anguish of the person being described?
(c) What does the speaker mean when he says 'mind buoyant with thoughts'?
2. What message did the scientist give for the differently abled?
3. Why did the writer feel guilty when the scientist spoke to him?
B. Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct option given in brackets.
1. Stephen Hawking is a worthy successor to Newton (Einstein/Newton
2. Stephen Hawking is the author of (A Brief History of Time/Time Machine)
3. A lot of people think that are chronically unhappy. (disabled people/sick people)
4. Stephen Hawking finds it amusing when people him. (patronise/praise)
5. Stephen Hawking advises disabled people to on what they are good at. (concentrate/think)
C. Think, discuss and then answer the following question.
The writer calls Stephen Hawking one of the most beautiful men in the world. Justify.


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Answer 1

Answer:

Visit to Cambridge is written by Firdaus Kanga, writer and journalist from Mumbai. He was born with ‘brittle bones’ that tended to break easily when he was a child. The lesson gives us a glimpse of the meeting between Firdaus Kanga and Stephen Hawking. Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest scientists of our time suffered from a form of paralysis that confined him to a wheelchair, and allowed him to ‘speak’ only by punching buttons on a computer, which speaks for him in a machine-like voice. Both these men moved around in wheelchairs. It was during Firdaus Kanga’s visit to Cambridge that they met each other.