I passed all the other courses that I took at my University，but I could have never passed botany（植物学）．This was because all botany students had to spend several hours a week in a laboratory looking through a microscope（显微镜）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（结构）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 1ike 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一structure again to his classes． “Well，”he said to tile．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 quietly drawing pictures of them in their notebooks．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 1ike 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 r8ised his head suddenly．”That’s your eye!”．he shouted．”You’ve adjusted the microscope so that it reflects! You've drawn your eye!”

     ——Selected from University Days by James Thurber

1．Why couldn't the writer see the flower ceils 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 playing jokes on his professor by pretending not to have seen it．

2．Why does the writer mention “Students to the right of tile and to the left of rile and in front of me were seeing cells” in Paragraph 2?

      A．To express his professor's satisfaction with his classmates．

      B．To prove his professors excellent teaching ability in his class．

      C．To show more clearly his not seeing the cells by comparing them with himself．

      D．To suggest his classmates' gift for drawing pictures，

3．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 then,．

    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．

4．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

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

      A．Realistic．                                              B．Romantic．

       C．Serious．                                               D．Humorous．

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～25各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案．

(A)

　A class of small boys in a German school had been making a lot of noise, so their teacher decided 　1　． He kept them in the classroom after the other boys 　2　and told them to add all the numbers from 1 to 100 together．

　The boys sadly 　3　their exercise books and began to write the numbers down—all of them 　4　one boy, who had been in that school only for a few days． This boy looked out of the window for a few moments, wrote a number in his exercise book and 　5　his hand．

　“May I go home when I've found the answer, sir? ” he asked．

　“Yes, you may, ” answered the teacher．

　“Well, I've found it, sir” said the boy．

　The teacher and the other boys were all very surprised．

　“　 6　,” said the teacher．

　The boy brought it． It was quite correct, so the teacher had to let the boy go home． The next morning, the 　7　teacher asked the new boy how he had found the answer so quickly．

　　　“Well, sir, ” he said, “I thought that there 　8　the answer, and I found one, you see, If you add 100 to 1, you get 101, and if you add 99 to 2, you also get 101, 98 to 3 is 101 too, and if you go on until you reach 51 and 50, you have 101 fifty times, which is 5050． ”

　After this, the teacher gave the boy 　9　the other boys in the class． His name was Karl Friedrich Gauss, and when he 　10　, he became a famous professor of mathematics．

(B)

　　 　On October 21st of 1833, Alfred Nobel was born in Sweden． His father was an engineer, and at that time he was 　11　explosives (炸药)． When Alfred was 　12　to go to university, his father sent him to the United States to study mechanical engineering (机械工程学)．

　　　When he left university, he started a factory with his brother to make a new and very powerful explosive． At first the factory 　13　, but one day there was a terrible explosion (爆炸) in the factory． It killed several workmen and Alfred's brother． Alfred himself was not there that day．

　　　Alfred 　14　after his brother's death, but he did not stop working; he moved his factory onto a boat, and took it a few miles out to sea． “If 　15　,” he said to himself, “I will be killed, but 　16　will be hurt． ” He was not killed 　17　, but made a new and much safer explosive． He called it dynamite (甘油炸药)．

　This was the time, in 　18　of the nineteenth century, when many modern roads and the first railways and tunnels 　19　in Europe． Everybody wanted to use Nobel's new dynamite． He soon became very rich．

　　　But Nobel's dynamite was not always used for making roads; it was also 　20　making war． “It's Nobel's fault (错误), ” many people said, “It's his dynamite they're using to make war． ” It was true; it was his dynamite; but was it his fault?

　One day, in 1891, Nobel opened a newspaper and read the story of his own death! It was 　21　, of course, and at first he laughed; but he did not laugh then he saw the things the newspaper 　22　him, “A very bad man, ” they said, “…terrible…wanted to destroy the world with his dynamite…”

　Poor Alfred Nobel! He decided to leave Paris, and went to live in Italy． There he 　23　in a big house, working and studying every hour of the day．

　　　In 1896, Alfred Nobel died． But that was 　24　his name． When he died, he left a lot of 　25　five Nobel Prizes． These are given every year for important work in five different fields, One prize is for chemistry, another for physics and another for medicine; there is also one for literature (文学); and the fifth one, the most important one for Alfred Nobel, is the Nobel Peace Prize．