Question

    I passed all the other courses that I took at my university, but I could have never passed botany. This was because all botany students had to spend several hours a week in a laboratory looking through a microscope at plant cells, and I could never once see a cell through a microscope. This used to make my professor angry. He would wander around the laboratory pleased with the progress all the students were making in drawing the structure of flower cells, until he came to me. I would just be standing there. “I can’t see anything,”I would say. He would begin patiently enough, explaining how anybody can see through a microscope, but he would always end up angrily, claiming that I could too see through a microscope but just pretended that I couldn’t. “It takes away from the beauty of flowers anyway.”I used to tell him.“We are not concerned with beauty in this course,”he would say.“We are concerned with the structure of flowers.” “Well,” I’d say.“I can’t see anything.” “Try it just once again,” he’d say, and I would put my eye to the microscope and see nothing at all, except now and again something unclear and milky. “You were supposed to see a clear, moving plant cells shaped like clocks.” “I see what looks like a lot of milk.” I would tell him. This, he claimed, was the result of my not having adjusted the microscope properly, so he would readjust it for me, or rather, for himself. And I would look again and see milk.

I failed to pass botany that year, and had to wait a year and try again, or I couldn’t graduate. The next term the same professor was eager to explain cell-structure again to his classes. “Well,”he said to me, happily, “we’re going to see cells this time, aren’t we?” “Yes,sir,” I said. Students to the right of me and to the left of me and in front of me were seeing cells; what’s more, they were . Of course, I didn’t see anything.

So the professor and I tried with every adjustment of the microscope known to man. With only once did I see anything but blackness or the familiar milk, and that time I saw, to my pleasure and amazement, something like stars. These I hurriedly drew. The professor, noting my activity, came to me, a smile on his lips and his eyebrows high in hope. He looked at my cell drawing. “What’s that?”he asked.“That’s what I saw,”I said.“You didn’t, you didn’t, you didn’t!”he screamed, losing control of himself immediately, and he bent over and looked into the microscope. He raised his head suddenly. “That’s your eye!” he shouted. “You’ve adjusted the microscope so that it reflects! You’re drawn your eye!”

1.Why couldn’t the writer see the flower cells through the microscope?     .

A.Because he had poor eyesight

B.Because the microscope didn’t work properly

C.Because he was not able to adjust the microscope properly

D.Because he was just playing jokes on his professor by pretending not to have seen it

2.What does the writer mean by “his eyebrows high in hope”in the last paragraph?

A.His professor expected him to have seen the cells and drawn the picture of them

B.His professor hoped he could perform his task with attention

C.His professor wished him to learn how to draw pictures

D.His professor looked forward to seeing all his students finish their drawings

3.What is the thing like stars that the writer saw in the last paragraph?

A.Real stars B.His own eye

C.Something unknown D.Milk

4.In what writing style did the writer write the passage?

A.Realistic B.Romantic C.Serious D.Humorous

Answer

1.C

2.A

3.B

4.D

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者上大学时候，生物课一直不能通过的原因。每次上实验课，他看到的东西和其他同学的都不一样。他甚至因此挂科。可最后才发现，并不是他的问题，而是显微镜的问题。

1.细节理解题。根据第一段中的This, he claimed, was the result of my not having adjusted the microscope properly, so he would readjust it for me, or rather, for himself.（他则声称，这是由于我没能调好显微镜所致，因而他就为我调试，更确切的说是为他自己调试）可知，作者无法通过显微镜看到花细胞，是因为他没能正确地调节显微镜。故选C。

2.词义猜测题。根据最后一段中的The professor, noting my activity, came to me, a smile on his lips and his eyebrows high in hope.（教授注意到我的动作，走到我跟前，嘴角挂着微笑，满怀希望地扬起眉毛）可知，教授注意到了作者的动作，满怀希望地扬起眉毛地走了过来。作者因不能正确使用显微镜而考试不及格，教授自然希望作者能和其他学生一样，正确调节microscope，并能看到“cells”，“quietly drawing pictures of them in their notebooks”。结合选项可知，A项符合文意。故选A。

3.细节理解题。根据最后一段中的“That’s your eye!” he shouted. “You’ve adjusted the microscope so that it reflects! You’re drawn your eye!”（他猛地抬起头来。“那是你的眼睛！”他喊道，“你调的镜头反射了！你画的是你的眼睛！”）可知，在最后一段中，作者看到的像星星一样的东西是他自己的眼睛。故选B。

4.推理判断题。从文章用词及作者语气可看出作者的“幽默诙谐”。故选D。