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प्रश्न
Make a list of Hawking’s physical inabilities after 1963.
(a) __________________ (d) __________________
(b) _________________ (e) __________________
(c) __________________ (f) __________________
उत्तर
Hawking's physical inabilities after 1963:
(a) could not go anywhere except in a wheelchair
(b) an ever-worsening physical state
(c) needed someone 24/7 to manage his care and work
(d) except for feeding himself and getting out of bed, had need of assistance for virtually everything else
(e) speech increasingly slurred, finally lost his voice for good
(f) ability to do his work in peril.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Get into pairs and match the prominent personalities with the disabilities they had :
| ‘A' | ‘B’ |
| (1) John Milton | The great German composer and musician who became deaf at the age of 28 years |
| (2) Beethoven | The great English poet who became blind at the age of 43 years. |
| (3) Stephen Hawking | An American enterpreneur, animator, voice actor, had a learning disability. |
| (4) Walt Disney | Famous scientist of the 20th century who was paralyzed. |
| (5) Albert Einstein | A great inventor who has over 1000 patents had a learning disability and became deaf. |
| (6) Thomas Edison | Great 20th Century scientist and noted physicist who had a learning disability. |
| (7) Hellen Keller | Dancer whose leg had to be amputated because of an accident. |
| (8) Sudha Chandran | Was blind and deaf. |
| (9) Tanay Grey-Thompson | Had polio and was elected as the President of the United States for four terms. |
| (10) Franklin Roosevelt | Is a wheelchair racer. |
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