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I sometimes wonder if old Finchley has the right personality to be a research scientist. He keeps asking when he’ll be coming back. After all, it was his own fault. Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley. Well, he must have pumped about a thousand cc into himself before I noticed he was clearly becoming smaller.
It was funny watching him, because his clothes remained the same in size. They simply piled up around him so that he looked like a small boy in his father’s clothes. But he kept getting smaller and smaller. As my colleague Dawson and I watched him, he disappeared! All we could see was Finchley’s clothes on the floor. They looked so strange, because the lab coat was on top, shirt and trousers inside and, I suppose, underclothes inside again. It gave me a strange feeling, and I think Dawson was a bit shaken, too.
Dawson was sitting on his chair in front of a microscope he’d been using to examine a family of mites(螨). He looked through the scope kind of absently again, and was nearly scared to lose awareness when he found old Finchley waving back from the other end.
It seems as if Finchley had taken a free ride on a dust mite and landed on the land of the mite family. Of course, we didn’t know till Finchley told us later. But anyhow, as I said, Dawson nearly passed out. He jumped off his chair and pointed at the microscope, too shocked to speak.
【小題1】It can be inferred that Finchley, Dawson and the writer have possible invented      .

A．a machine to make people small	B．a new way to study the family of mites
C．a new powerful microscope	D．some kind of medicine

【小題2】Finchley disappeared because      .

A．he tried out what has just invented on himself

B．his father’s clothes totally covered him up

C．he took something poisonous

D．he was changed into a dust mite

【小題3】It can probably be concluded that Finchley       .

A．will remain tiny all the time	B．is a devoted scientist
C．is not fit to be a scientist	D．passed out there and then

【小題4】It frightened Dawson to see Fincley         .

A．got out of his scope by accident	B．was waving through his scope
C．suddenly got lost in his clothes	D．gradually disappeared in the lad

Answer 1

【小題1】D
【小題2】A
【小題3】B
【小題4】B

解析試題分析：本文介紹了一位很有特色的研究人員Finchley，他勇于在自己身上試用剛剛發明出來的產品。
【小題1】D 推理題。根據文章第三段內容，尤其是1,2行Dawson was sitting on his chair in front of a microscope he’d been using to examine a family of mites(螨).說明他們是在研究一種藥物，故D項正確。
【小題2】A 細節題。根據第一段3,4行Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley.說明只有他會在自己身上使用發明的東西，故A正確。
【小題3】B 推理題。根據第一段Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley.說明他勇于在自己身上試驗發明的產品，就說明他是一個致力于研究的人，故B正確。
【小題4】B 細節題。根據第三段2,3行He looked through the scope kind of absently again, and was nearly scared to lose awareness when he found old Finchley waving back from the other end.說明B項正確。
考點：考查人物傳記類短文
點評：本文介紹了致力于科學研究的Finchley，測試考生在閱讀基礎上的邏輯推理能力，要求考生根據文章所述事件的邏輯關系，對未說明的趨勢或結局作出合理的推斷；或根據作者所闡述的觀點理論，對文章未涉及的現象、事例給以解釋。考生首先要仔細閱讀短文，完整了解信息，準確把握作者觀點。