Script for the recording in page 55: Stephen Hawking is perhaps the most well-known scientist since Einstein. Like Einstein, his work (1) _______ the big questions, questions such as How did the universe begin? Why is the universe the way it is? and How will it end? He is now working on what is sometimes known as the “theory of everything.” Among other things, this promises to (2)_________ what caused the Big Bang that started the universe. But it is not simply the power of Hawking’s mind that has led to (3)___________. For what many people find most striking about him is (4)_____________ between the strength of his mind and (5)_____________ of his body. For many years Hawking has suffered from an illness that has left him unable to (6)_____ and to ________________. Born in England in (7)_______, Hawking had a normal childhood and it was not until he was a student at (8)_________ that his illness started to (9)______ him. Hospital tests showed he was suffering from a disease that (10)_____________________ the muscles. The disease (11)__________________ with time and there is no known cure. But Hawking did not (12)______________. As he says , “although there was a cloud (13)_________________my future. I found, to my surprise, that I was (14)_______________ life more than before. I began to make progress with my research, and I got engaged to a girl called Jane Wilde, which changed my life. It gave me something to (15)_________. Hawking started research at Cambridge and went on to hold (16)_________ post that another great scientist, Newton, once held. Over the years, his condition has worsened, but even when he finally lost his ability (17)____________, he managed to (18)____________ the problem. He now uses a computer that enables him to select words which are then (19)_____________ speech. “The only trouble,” the English scientist says, “ is that it gives me an American (20)________.”