A Visit to Cambridge - Worksheets

CBSE WorkSheet 01
A Visit to Cambridge
  1. What is the scientist’s message for the disabled? Answer in the context of A Visit to Cambridge.
  2. How did the guide introduce Stephen Hawking to the writer?
  3. How did the Guide at Cambridge describe Hawking to the author?
  4. What endeared the scientist to the writer so that he said he was looking at one of the most beautiful men in the world? Answer in the context of A Visit to Cambridge.
  5. Did Kanga consider Hawking brave? How?
  6. What took the author Firdaus to England? Why did he wish to see Hawking?
  7. What advice does the scientist give to the handicapped?
  8. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:
    "Is there any advice you can give to disabled people, something that might help make life better?"
    They should concentrate on what they are good at; I think things like the disabled Olympics are a waste of time.
    1. Who does the narrator ask for advice for the disabled?
    2. What was the advice given?
    3. Which activity is a waste of time?
CBSE WorkSheet 01
A Visit to Cambridge
Solution
  1. The disabled should concentrate on what they are good at. It is foolish to waste time in imitating the normal people.
  2. The guide told the writer that Stephen Hawking was a worthy successor to Issac Newton. However, he was quite disabled.
  3. The guide described Hawking as a poor man, quite disabled, though a worthy successor to Issac Newton. He said that Hawking had the Newton Chair at the University.
  4. The scientist’s one-way smile endeared him to the writer. So he said he was looking at one of the most beautiful men in the world.
  5. Yes. Kanga considered Hawking very brave. Hawking had a decaying body. He was almost completely paralysed. Yet he had decided to live creatively. This was certainly very brave of him.
  6. Firdaus Kanga visited Britain in order to write a book about his travels. He himself could move only in a wheel-chair. On the advice of his guide, Kanga planned to meet the most brilliant and completely paralysed astrophysicist, Stephen Hawking in Cambridge. Hawking was also the author of the book 'A brief History of Time', one of the biggest best-seller.
  7. He advises the disabled people to concentrate on their talents. They should not try to copy the normal people.
    1. The narrator asks Professor Stephen Hawking for advice for the disabled.
    2. Stephen Hawking's advice for the disabled people was that they should concentrate on what they are good at.
    3. Things like disabled Olympic games were a waste of time for him.