Unit 12 课时跟踪检测(4) 阅读写作融会练（word练习）-【新课程学案】新教材2023-2024学年高中英语选择性必修第四册（北师大版2019）

UNIT 12 课时跟踪检测(四) 阅读写作融会练 Ⅰ.阅读理解 The history of microbiology begins with a Dutch cloth maker named Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, a man of no formal scientific education.In the late 1600s, Leeuwenhoek, inspired by the magnifying lenses he used to examine cloth, built some of the first microscopes.He developed a technique to improve the quality of tiny, rounded lenses, some of which could magnify an object up to 270 times.After removing some plaque from between his teeth and examining it under a lens, Leeuwenhoek found tiny twisting creatures, which he called “animalcules”． His observations, which he reported to the Royal Society of London, are among the first descriptions of microbes. Leeuwenhoek discovered an entire universe invisible to the human eye.He found different microbes in samples of pond water, rain water, and human blood.He gave the first description of red blood cells, observed plant tissue, examined muscle, and investigated the life cycle of insects. Nearly two hundred years later, Leeuwenhoek's discovery of microbes helped French chemist and biologist Louis Pasteur to develop his “theory of disease”．This concept suggested that disease originates from tiny organisms attacking and weakening the body.Pasteur's theory later helped doctors to fight infectious diseases including anthrax, diphtheria, polio, smallpox, tetanus, and typhoid.All these breakthroughs were the result of Leeuwenhoek's original work.Leeuwenhoek did not foresee this_legacy. In a 1716 letter, he described his contribution to science this way：“My work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a strong desire for knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men.And therefore, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that the scientific community might be informed thereof.” 语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了Antoni van Leeuwenhoek在微生物观察方面做出的贡献以及他对自己贡献的看法。 1．Wh