Passage One  I am quite often asked： How do you feel a

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. 
The boy who died of leukemia made Hawking realize that____.()
A、his health may be improved if the doctors tried hard enough
B、death is fatal and uncontrollable to all human beings
C、there were people who were even worse off than him
D、one will die no matter how strong-minded he is
【正确答案】：C
【题目解析】：根据文章第四段第四、五、六句，“However，while I had been.可知，我在医院时，亲眼看见过对面床上那个我不太认识的男孩死于白血病，有些病人远比我更严重。答案为C。