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World famous physicist Stephen Hawking has died【小题1】 the age of 76. He died 【小题2】 (peaceful) at his home in Cambridge.

【小题3】 (know) to the public for his work with black holes and relativity (相对论), and wrote several popular science books including A Brief History of Time. At the age of 22, Prof. Hawking   【小题4】 (tell) only a few years to live after doctors declared that he suffered from a rare disease. The illness left him in a wheelchair and he was   【小题5】 (able) to speak except through a voice synthesizer (合成器).

Professor Hawking was the first 【小题6】 (set) out a theory of cosmology (宇宙学) explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics (量子力学). He also discovered   【小题7】 black holes leak (泄露) energy and fade to nothing. Through his work with mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, he proved that Einstein’s general theory of relativity suggests space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and   【小题8】 end in black holes.

In a statement his children praised his “courage and persistence” and said his “【小题9】 (brilliant) and humor” inspired people across the world. They added, “He once said, ‘It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people 【小题10】 you love.’ We will miss him forever.”