世纪英语 拓展阅读教程I 第四版 答案2UNIT 1 done.ppt

UNIT 1 University life Contents Section 1 大学生活丰富多彩，令人难忘。詹姆斯·瑟伯，这位继马克· 吐温之后美国最伟大的幽默作家，他又有着怎样的大学趣事？ University Days By James Thurber I passed all the other courses that I took at my university, but I could never pass . 主题阅读 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 see through a .I never once saw a cell through a microscope. This used to my . 主题阅读 He would wander around the laboratory pleased with the progress all the students were making in drawing the involved and, so I was told, interesting 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 in a , 主题阅读 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 what I may call the of .” “Well,” I’d say, “I can’t see anything.” “Try it just once again,” he’d say, 主题阅读 and I would put my eye to the microscope and see nothing at all, except now and again a milky substance — a phenomenon of . “You were supposed to see vivid clockwork of sharply defined plant cells.” “I see what looks like a lot of milk,” I would tell him. This, he , was the result of my not having adjusted the microscope properly, so he would it for me, or rather, for himself. 主题阅读 And I would look again and see milk. I finally took a pass, and waited a year and tried again. The professor had come back from v