65. Reading Skills Comprehension: My University Fear

My University Fear 

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 I passed all the other courses that I took at my University, but I could never pass Botany. 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 microscope. I never once saw a cell through a microscope. This used to enrage my instructor. He would wander around the laboratory pleased with the progress all the students were making in drawing the involved and, so I am told, the 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 fury, claiming that I too could 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 solely with what I may call the mechanics of flowers.” “Well,” I’d say, “I can’t see anything.” “Try it just once again,” he’d say, and I would put my eye to the microscope and see nothing at all, except now and again a nebulous milky substance — a phenomenon of maladjustment. “You were supposed to see a vivid, restless clockwork of sharply defined plant cells.” “I see what looks like a lot of milk,” I would tell him. This, he claimed, was the result of my not having adjusted the microscope properly, so he would readjust it for me, or rather, for himself. And I would look again and see milk.

 Based on your reading of the passage, complete the following sentences                    (1×5=5)                                          

(a) The author thinks that he could not pass the Botany examination because…………………….

(b) The difference in attitude between the instructor and the author was that while the………

(c) The instructor was enraged with the author’s persistent failure to see cells because he thought that the author……………………

(d) Plant cells under the microscope looked like milk to the author because of the instructor…………………..  

(e) The word in the passage which means the same as ‘professed falsely’ is………………………  

Answers-

(a) he could not see through a microscope.

(b) the instructor was patient with the microscope, the author was impatient with it.

(c) pretended not to see them.

(d) used to get upset with him for not having adjusted the microscope properly.

 (e) pretended

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