Known as the wife of the outstanding Professor Stephen Hawking for 30 years, Jane Hawking came to more people’s notice thanks to The Theory of Everything, a 2014 Oscar-winning film based on her book Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen.
Jane became interested in Hawking during middle school. She was impressed by his brilliant wisdom, and the two fell in love. Though he was told by the doctor to have a serious disease and only two years to live, Jane still married him in 1965.
Jane’s parents were rather surprised, but they supported her very much when she married Stephen Hawking. “And, of course, there was Stephen and his talent. Stephen had been given two years to live so I thought I could give two years of my life to this person I loved. I wanted to help him achieve his ambitions. And then, there were my tiny children. They kept me going,” Jane said.
Jane took on her role as a wife and assistant, taking her husband to conferences worldwide. As Stephen’s illness developed, Jane chose to seek her own academic career. She wanted to be in a position to provide for her family, so the first thing in the morning she took the children to kindergarten, and then hurried to the university library. She gained her PhD two days before her third child was born.
Jane became a lecturer in modern languages. And now she is retired, focusing on her creative writing. She is working on her latest novel, to follow up her second one, which was published in August, 2018.
【小题1】What made Jane Hawking known to more people?| A．Her role as a famous lecturer. | B．An Oscar-winning film in 2014. |
| C．Her success in creative writing. | D．The selfless love for her husband. |
| A．Jane believed her husband would recover. |
| B．Jane’s marriage couldn’t get her parents’ support. |
| C．Jane decided to help her husband realize his dream. |
| D．Jane’s children stopped her from achieving her ambition. |
| A．Kind and proud. | B．Honest and humorous. |
| C．Generous and ambitious. | D．Devoted and hard-working. |
| A．Marriage of Jane and Hawking. |
| B．An introduction of Jane Hawking. |
| C．The success of Jane Hawking’s career. |
| D．A film review of The Theory of Everything. |
