2019高考英语二轮阅读理解归类练习—创造发明(详解).docVIP

2019高考英语二轮阅读理解归类练习—创造发明（详解） A 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 unlikely-sounding 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 couldnt 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 Hookes，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 micro-organisms，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 Leeuwenhoeks death，that bacteria were linked with diseases.“Reading van Leeuwenhoeks letters，you very much get the impression of somebody dazzled by what he was finding，”says Lesley Robertson，leader of the archives at Delft Universitys school of microbiology.“He thought hed found a whole new world—but he certainly never picked up on the connection with illness.” Notes： ①draper n．布料商　②curved adj.弯曲旳　③archive n．档案室 长短句分析：It was not until 1890，more than 160 years after van Leeuwenhoeks 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 Leeuwenhoeks death是1890旳同位语. 句意：直到1890年，凡·列文虎克死后旳160余年，细菌才被和疾病联系到一起. 【语篇