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Unit1Growingup

SectionⅠStartingoutUnderstandingideas-1-

SectionⅡUsinglanguage-7-

SectionⅢDevelopingideas,PresentingideasReflection-12-

单元测试卷

SectionⅠStartingoutUnderstandingideas

Ⅰ.阅读理解

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Inventor,physicist,astronomer,biologist,artist...RobertHookewasalltheseand

more.Somesayhewasthegreatestexperimentalscientistofthe17thcentury.Inthe

courseofhiswork,hecooperatedwithfamousmenofsciencelikeIsaacNewton,and

thegreatarchitectChristopherWren.

Hookesearlyeducationbeganathome,undertheguidanceofhisfather.He

enteredWestminsterSchoolandfromtherehewenttoOxford,wherehecamein

contactwithsomeofthebestscientistsinEngland.Hookeimpressedthemwithhis

skillsatdesigningexperimentsandinventinginstruments.In1662,hewasnamed

CuratorofExperimentsatthenewlyformedRoyalSocietyofLondon—meaningthat

hewasresponsiblefordemonstrating(展示)newexperimentsatthesocietysweekly

meetings.Hookeacceptedthejob,eventhoughheknewthatthesocietyhadnomoney

topayhim!

Watchinglivingthingsthroughamicroscopewasoneofhisfavouritepastimes.

Heinventedacompoundmicroscopeforthispurpose.Onedaywhileobservingacork

(软木塞)underamicroscope,hesawhoneycomb-likestructures.Therewerecells—

thesmallestunitsoflife.Infact,itwasHookewhoinventedtheter