CBSE Class 8 English Question 23 of 24

A Visit to Cambridge — Question 24

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Write about Stephen Hawking and Firdaus Kanga.
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Both of them are disabled people. Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest scien­tists of our time. He suffers from paralysis that confines him to a wheelchair, and allows him to ‘speak’ only by punching buttons on a computer, which speaks for him in a machine like voice.
Firdaus Kanga is a writer and journalist. He lives and works in Mumbai. He was born with ‘brittle bones’ that tended to break easily when he was a child. Like Hawking, Kanga moves around in a wheelchair.