第2部分：阅读判断(第16——22题，每题1分，共7分)

　　下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断;如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。

　　The Theory of Everything

　　If Stephen Hawking lives until the year2017, he will have lived more than 50 years longer than Ns doctors expected. When he was a college student, doctors discovered that he had arare disease. This disease causes a gradual disintegration(分解)of the nerve cells in the braincells that regulate voluntary muscle activity. Death almost always occurswithin two or three years.

　　Today Stephen Hawking cannot walk or speak.He cannot move his arms or his head. He can not taste of smell anything. Andyet this man is Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, a positionheld by the famous scientist Isaac Newton in 1669.

　　Hawking Is often described as the greatestscientist since Albert Einstein, but to the world outside science. He isalso known as the man who made scientific theory understandable. His book, A Brief History of Time, has sold overeight million copies.

　　He says that since he does not have tothink about his body or do any of the things other men have to worry about,such as washing the car or working in the yard, he can dedicate all of his timeto thinking. This puts him in the perfect positionto find the answer to the question that he has dedicated his life to. Hisquestion is: Is there a complete theory of the universe and everything in it?

　　Despite his tremendous physicaldisabilities, he has already made some very important discoveries about theorigin of the universe, how the universe holds together, and how it willprobably end. He has also been able to explain the secrets of “black holes”inspace. Now he is looking for a set of rules that everything in our universemust obey. He calls it the Theory of Everything. He thinks that someone willhave found the answer within the next 20 years.

　　If Stephen Hawking it able to find hisTheory of Everything, he will have given the world the opportunity tounderstand things that will change the whole nature of science and probablyalso the way we live.

　　16. StephenHawking will be 50 years old by 2017.

　　A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned

　　答案为B;

　　17. StephenHawking suffers from a rare brain disease.

　　A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned

　　答案为B;

　　18. StephenHawking is Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.

　　A.Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned

　　答案为A;

　　19. A Brief History of Time is verydifficult for students to understand.

　　A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned

　　答案为B;

　　20. StephenHawking has much time to think because he doesn't have to work.

　　A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned

　　答案为B;

　　21. StephenHawking has spent around ten years explaining the secrets of……….

　　A. Right B.Wrong C. Not mentioned

　　答案为： C.

　　22. TheTheory of Everything Is about the rules that everything in our……… follow.

　　A.Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned

　　答案为A。

（编辑：何莹莹）