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Stephen Hawkingwas born in Cambridge in 1942. Hawking (1) known to millions of people all over the world (2) his best-seliing science book 'A Brief History Of Time', (3) ~ __ ----:_-:---:-_ has helped to bring about a revival of popular interest (4) science. Diagnosed as having motor neuron disease (5) he was only twenty-one, Hawking has had to overcome many obstacles. Motor neuron disease causes gradual paralysis and by 1970 Hawking could (6) _______ walk norwrite. Fortunately,the disease does (7) affect the parts of the brain which control thought and memory, so he has been (8) to continue with his research into the origins of the universe. Now in (9) fifties, Hawking weighs less (10) _--,- -:-- + 40 kilos and is almost completely paralyzed. But, (11) he can only speak by means of a computer and voice-synthesizer, his attitude to life remains the same - cheerful (12) ___ -:-:--_:---:- positive. Hawking, who is considered (13) many to be the world's greatest living scientist, (14) achieved far (15) than most able-bodied people could ever accomplish. Or, for that matter, would ever dream of accomplishing. 1

Friday the 13th

Fear of Friday 13th,and the number 13 generally, is \ common than you might expect. A recent survey carried out 1. Britain revealed that 41% of British people feel uncomfortable about Friday 13th while 4% live in dread of it. The unwillingness o'superstitlops sailors to sail on Friday 13thwas once considered to !> reached such a levef that in 1791., govemment attempted to prove that the superstition was both ridiculous and false. Construction t started on a new ship on Friday 13th;she was named HMS Friday; she was lC!}lnchedon a Friday...;.' _ she began her first voyage from London on a Friday. Neither the ship the crew was ever heard of again. Richard Hall, from Sheffield, has' . involved in four crashes on Friday 13th.He has also broken several bones, fallen , ariver, been knocked down \0 . a motorbike and walked through a glass door. Now he never gets our \\ bed on that day. Friday \\13thinterferes with hospital schedules'1. many patients refuse to have operations on that date ....,..- -:---=--:- it does not seem to be the case that ,., accidents happen on Friday 13th than on any other Friday. However, experts claim that the number 13 is not really as unlucky as people say. What \ej really brings is surprises,which can\, good as well as bad. -f' The history of the Chunnel

The Channel tunnel, which joins Britain to mainland Europe' the first time, was officially opened in 1994, but the history of the 'Chunnel', back nearly two hundred years, At the beginning of the 19thc~ntury, a British politician went to Franceto discuss closer trade links'3_-=-=-_:--_:--_ the two countries. The of a tunnel wfs mentioned in talks with Napoleon. A French engineer prepared plans for a tunnel in two sections, meeting at an island build in the middle of the English Channel. Another plan involved the laying of air-filled wooden ~bes at the ~ ,of the sea. These1 schemes were abandoned when war out between Britain and France. In 1875 a Tunnel Committee was formed, and a Convention was 3 . The British Channel Company boughtI. , near Denver and started digging. There were still arguments about whether there should be a tunnel. The British were against the idea, saying that once the tunnel was

\1 , Britain would no longer be an island. Publicll. was increasingly hostile and in 1884 all work stopped. In the early zo" century the idea was\~ again but was soon lorgotten when the First World War began. Thr~ughout the twenties and thirties the idea was always " because of security andI worries. After that, it was not lC the 1960s that the two governments started …