Question

I sometimes wonder if old Finchley has the right personality to be a research scientist. He keeps asking when he’ll be coming back. After all, it was his own fault. Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley. Well, he must have pumped about a thousand cc into himself before I noticed he was clearly becoming smaller.

It was funny watching him, because his clothes remained the same in size. They simply piled up around him so that he looked like a small boy in his father’s clothes. But he kept getting smaller and smaller. As my colleague Dawson and I watched him, he disappeared! All we could see was Finchley’s clothes on the floor. They looked so strange, because the lab coat was on top, shirt and trousers inside and, I suppose, underclothes inside again. It gave me a strange feeling, and I think Dawson was a bit shaken, too.

Dawson was sitting on his chair in front of a microscope he’d been using to examine a family of mites(螨). He looked through the scope kind of absently again, and was nearly scared to lose awareness when he found old Finchley waving back from the other end.

It seems as if Finchley had taken a free ride on a dust mite and landed on the land of the mite family. Of course, we didn’t know till Finchley told us later. But anyhow, as I said, Dawson nearly passed out. He jumped off his chair and pointed at the microscope, too shocked to speak.

1.It can be inferred that Finchley, Dawson and the writer have possible invented      .

A．a machine to make people small            B．a new way to study the family of mites

C．a new powerful microscope               D．some kind of medicine

2.Finchley disappeared because      .

A．he tried out what has just invented on himself

B．his father’s clothes totally covered him up

C．he took something poisonous

D．he was changed into a dust mite

3.It can probably be concluded that Finchley       .

A．will remain tiny all the time                B．is a devoted scientist

C．is not fit to be a scientist                  D．passed out there and then

4.It frightened Dawson to see Fincley         .

A．got out of his scope by accident            B．was waving through his scope

C．suddenly got lost in his clothes             D．gradually disappeared in the lad

Answer

1.D

2.A

3.B

4.B

【解析】

试题分析：本文介绍了一位很有特色的研究人员Finchley，他勇于在自己身上试用刚刚发明出来的产品。

1.D 推理题。根据文章第三段内容，尤其是1,2行Dawson was sitting on his chair in front of a microscope he’d been using to examine a family of mites(螨).说明他们是在研究一种药物，故D项正确。

2.A 细节题。根据第一段3,4行Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley.说明只有他会在自己身上使用发明的东西，故A正确。

3.B 推理题。根据第一段Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley.说明他勇于在自己身上试验发明的产品，就说明他是一个致力于研究的人，故B正确。

4.B 细节题。根据第三段2,3行He looked through the scope kind of absently again, and was nearly scared to lose awareness when he found old Finchley waving back from the other end.说明B项正确。

考点：考查人物传记类短文