Chapter 7 - A Visit to Cambridge

Part 1: Textbook Solutions (Comprehension Check & Exercises)

COMPREHENSION CHECK

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Which is the right sentence?

कौनसा वाक्य ठीक है?

Q. 1 "Cambridge was my metaphor for England." To the writer,

Ans. (iii) Cambridge was the real England.

Q. 2. The writer phoned Stephen Hawking's house

Ans. (ii) from outside a phone booth.

Q. 3. Every time he spoke to the scientist, the writer felt guilty because

Ans. (ii) he forced the scientist to use his voice synthesiser.

Q. 4. "I felt a huge relief........in the possibilities of my body." In the given context, the highlighted words refer to

Ans. (i) shifting in the wheelchair, turning the wrist.

TEXT BOOK QUESTIONS

Working with the text :

Answer the following questions. निम्नलिखित प्रश्नों के उत्तर दें—

Q. 1 (i) Did the prospect of meeting Stephen Hawking make the writer nervous ? If so, why?

(ii) Did he at the same time feel very excited ? If so, why?

(i) क्या स्टीफन हॉकिंग से मिलने के अवसर ने लेखक को व्याकुल किया? यदि ऐसा है तो क्यों?

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Cambridge was my metaphor for England, and it was strange that when I left it had become altogether something else, because I had met Stephen Hawking there.

It was on a walking tour through Cambridge that the guide mentioned Stephen Hawking, 'poor man, who is quite disabled now, though he is a worthy successor to Issac Newton, whose Chair he has at the University.'

And I started, because I had quite forgotten that this most brilliant and completely paralysed astrophysicist, the author of *A Brief History of Time*, one of the biggest best-sellers ever, lived here.

Questions :

1. (i) What was his metaphor for England?

इंग्लैंड के लिए उसका रूपक क्या था?

(ii) To whom had he met there?

वहाँ वह किससे मिला था?

(iii) Who is the worthy successor of Issac Newton?

आइजैक न्यूटन का योग्य उत्तराधिकारी कौन है?

2. (i) What do you know about his brilliancy and paralysis?

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आप उसकी मेधाविता तथा पक्षाघात के बारे में क्या जानते हैं?

(ii) What is a Brief History of Time?

‘अ ब्रीफ हिस्ट्री ऑफ़ टाइम’ क्या है?

(iii) Write the opposite words from the passage for the following words :

2. (i) What should a disable do?

एक दिव्यांग को क्या करना चाहिए?

(ii) What are a waste of time?

क्या चीजें समय की बर्बादी है?

वर्णकर्ता ने स्पेनिश गिटार बजाने की कोशिश में वर्षों बिता दिए।

दिव्यांग ओलम्पिक समय की बर्बादी है।

स्टीफन ने वर्णनकर्त्ता को अपने घर का उद्यान दिखाया।

उसने स्टीफन को अपने साहसीतम स्व के अवतार के रूप में देखा।

(iii) believed.