Passage One I am quite often asked： How do you feel abouthaving ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) ? The answer is not a lot. I try tolead as normal a life as possible, and not think about my conditioner regretthe things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many. It was a great shock to me to discoverthat I had motor neuron disease. I had never been very well co-coordinatedphysically as a child. I was not good at ball games, and my handwriting was thedespair of my teachers. Maybe for this reason, I didn’t care much for sport orphysical activities. But things seemed to change when I went to Oxford, at theage of 17.I took up coxing and rowing. I was not boat race standard, but I gotby at the level of intercollege competition. In my third year at Oxford, however, Inoticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier, and I fell over once or twice forno apparent reason. But it was not until I was at Cambridge, in the followingyear, that my father noticed, and took me to the family doctor. He referred meto a specialist, and shortly after my 21st birthday, I went into hospital fortests. I was in for two weeks, during which I had a wide variety of tests. Theytook a muscle sample from my arm, stuck electrodes into me, and injected someradio opaque fluid into my spine, and watched it going up and down with x-rays,as they tilted the bed. After all that，they didn’t tell me what I had, except that it was not multiplesclerosis, and that I was an atypical case.I gathered，however,that they expected it to continue to get worse，and thatthere was nothing they could do, except give me vitamins. I could see that theydidn’t expect them to have much effect. I didn’t feel like asking for moredetails，because they were obviously bad. The realization that I had an incurabledisease, that was likely to kill me in a few years, was a bit of a shock. Howcould something like that happen to me? Why should I be cut off like this?However, while I had been in hospital, I had seen a boy I vaguely knew die ofleukemia, in the bed opposite me. It had not been a pretty sight. Clearly therewere people who were worse off than me. At least my condition didn’t make mefeel sick. Whenever I feel inclined to be sorry for myself I remember that boy. Not knowing what was going to happen tome, or how rapidly the disease would progress, I was at a loose end. Thedoctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with the research I hadjust started in general relativity and cosmology. But I was not making muchprogress, because I didn’t have much mathematical background. And，anyway, I might notlive long enough to finish my Ph D. I felt somewhat of a tragic character. Itook to listening to Wagner. My dreams at that time were ratherdisturbed. Before my condition had been diagnosed, I had been very bored withlife. There had not seemed to be anything worth doing. But shortly after I cameout of hospital, I dreamt that I was going to be executed. I suddenly realized thatthere were a lot of worthwhile things I could do if I were reprieved, Anotherdream, that I had several times, was that I would sacrifice my life to saveothers. After all，if I were going to die anyway, it might as well do some good. But Ididn’t die. In fact, although there was a cloud hanging over my future, Ifound,to my surprise, that I was enjoying life in the present more than before.I began to make progress with my research, and I got engaged to a girl calledJane Wilde, whom I had met just about the time my condition was diagnosed. Thatengagement changed my life. It gave me something to live for. But it also meantthat I had to get a job if we were to get married. I therefore applied for aresearch fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. To my greatsurprise, I got a fellowship, and we got married a few months later.
Shortly after he came out of hospital, Hawking suddenly realized that____.()
A、he should finish his PhD studies on cosmology
B、he should get married and have kids of his own
C、there were a lot of friends he should visit
D、there were lots of worthwhile things he could do
【正确答案】：D
【题目解析】：根据文章最后一段第四、五句，“But shortly after I came out of hospital. ”可知， 在我出院后不久，我梦想过我即将被处死。突然间我意识到如果我被缓刑就有许多值得做的事情。答案为D。
