高考英语冲刺阅读题 创造发明
13.A.case B.honour C.place D.terms
答案 D [in terms of 就……而言。in case of“假使，以防”;in honour of “纪念”;in place of “代替”。故选D。]
14.A.yellow B.red C.colorful D.green
答案 D [该段是作者的'议论。作者认为自己的父母给了他生活上的正确引导，就像是交通灯一样，应该有三种。大胆前行的是绿灯，应该避免的是红灯，应该警惕的是黄灯。根据冒号后的“与人和睦相处，帮助他人”可知，这是应该做的。故选D。]
15.A.adventure B.joy C.panic D.chance
答案 B [该题应该同上一题连在一起看。都是正面的应为“过上快乐的有意义的生活”。故选B。]
16.A.confidence B.life C.dream D.belief
答案 B [父母给自己规定了一些不该做的事情，以使自己的“人生”不会误入歧途。]
17.A.attend B.start C.leave D.join
答案 A [attend school上学，固定搭配。故选A。]
18.A.good B.convenient C.special D.simple
答案A[如果作者能遵守所有的信号指示，他的生活就会过得很好，故选A。]
19.A.through B.across C.beyond D.above
答案 B [过街，是从物体表面穿过，用across。故选B。]
20.A.purposes B.features C.qualities D.signals
答案 D [此处作者把生活中的各种情况比作三种交通信号灯，故选D。]
维B1 阅读理解(每题2分，满分分)
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Early in the autumn of 1674，Henry Oldenburg，secretary of the Royal Society in London，received an extraordinary letter.Sent by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek，a draper from Delft in the Netherlands，it contained an unlikelysounding claim.
Using a microscope of his own invention，van Leeuwenhoek had seen tiny creatures，invisible to the naked eye，living in lake water.Some of these “animalcules (微生物) ” were so small，he later estimated that 30 million of them would still be smaller than a grain of sand.
Royal Society fellows couldn't believe it.Even with his most powerful instruments，the celebrated English microscopist Robert Hooke had never observed anything like the little creatures.
In fact，the Dutchman had developed far superior lenses to Hooke's，and had discovered bacteria and protozoans (原生动物).By producing even smaller and more curved lenses—using a technique that he kept secret—van Leeuwenhoek was able to magnify objects up to 500 times.As well as discovering microorganisms，he was the first to see red blood cells.
In 1677，van Leeuwenhoek sent the Society further animalcule observations.Hooke eventually improved his own microscopes to the point where he，too，could see the tiny creatures.Three years later van Leeuwenhoek was made a fellow.
It was not until 1890，more than 160 years after van Leeuwenhoek's death，that bacteria were linked with diseases.“Reading van Leeuwenhoek's letters，you very much get the impression of somebody dazzled by what he was finding，”says Lesley Robertson，leader of the archives at Delft University's school of microbiology.“He thought he'd found a whole new world—but he certainly never picked up on the connection with illness.”
Notes：
draper n.布料商 ②curved adj.弯曲的 ③archive n.档案室
长短句分析：It was not until 1890，more than 160 years after van Leeuwenhoek's death，that bacteria were linked with diseases.
句法点睛：这是it was...that强调结构。在强调结构中，more than 160 years after van Leeuwenhoek's death是1890的同位语。
句意：直到1890年，凡·列文虎克死后的160余年，细菌才被和疾病联系到一起。
【语篇解读】 本文是记叙文。全文讲述了布料商出身的Antoni van Leeuwenhoek发明了自己的显微镜。他的发明使得发现更小、更清晰的事物成为可能，这为把细菌与疾病联系起来奠定了基础。
1.What did Antoni van Leeuwenhoek see with his own microscope?
A.A letter. B.Bacteria and protozoans.
C.Small animals in the water. D.The element of water.
答案 B [细节理解题。联系下文“In fact，the Dutchman had developed far superior lenses to Hooke's，and had discovered bacteria and protozoans”可知，荷兰人已经通过改良的镜片发现了细菌和原生动物，Antoni van Leeuwenhoek通过自己的显微镜看到的tiny creatures就是细菌和原生动物。]
2.From the passage we can see ________.
A.van Leeuwenhoek knew the tiny creatures in the water had something to do with nature
B.van Leeuwenhoek was the first to discover bacteria
C.van Leeuwenhoek was the first to use the microscope
D.van Leeuwenhoek was the first one to know how to observe bacteria and protozoans
答案 C [推理判断题。通读全文可知，尽管荷兰人也看到细菌和原生动物，但是他们使用的是改进后的镜片，而不是显微镜，因此C正确。A有一定的干扰性，联系文章最后一句可知，他并没有把观察到的细菌和原生物联系到一起。]