Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them:
When the walking tour was done, I rushed to a phone booth and, almost tearing the cord so it could reach me outside, phoned Stephen Hawking’s house. There was his assistant on the line and I told him I had come in a wheelchair from India (perhaps he thought I had propelled myself all the way) to write about my travels in Britain. I had to see Professor Hawking-even ten minutes would do. “Half an hour,” he said. “From three-thirty to four.”
And suddenly I felt weak all over. Growing up disabled, you get fed up with people asking you to be brave, as if you have a courage account on which you are too lazy to draw a cheque. The only thing that makes you stronger is seeing somebody like you, achieving something huge. Then you know how much is possible and you reach out further than you ever thought you could.
(1) I rushed to a phone booth and, almost tearing the cord so it could reach me outside, phoned Stephen Hawking’s house. What kind of the writer’s feeling do these underlined words show?
(2) Why had the writer come all the way from India?
(3) Why did the writer feel weak all over ?
(4) What makes a disabled person stronger, according to the writer?
