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Read the following passage and answer question 191 - 195
I passed all the other courses I took at my university, but I could never pass Botany. This was because all Botany students had to spend several hours in a week in a laboratory looking through a microscope at plant cells, and I could never seethrough 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,interesting structure o f flower cells, until he come 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 could always end up in a fury, claiming that I could too see through a microscope but just pretend that I couldn't. "It takes away from the beauty' of flowers anyway, "I used to tell him" . We are not concerned with the beauty in this course'. he would say. “We are concerned solely with what I may call the mechanics" , “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 seenothing at till, 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 may 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.
I passed all the other courses I took at my university, but I could never pass Botany. This was because all Botany students had to spend several hours in a week in a laboratory looking through a microscope at plant cells, and I could never seethrough 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,interesting structure o f flower cells, until he come 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 could always end up in a fury, claiming that I could too see through a microscope but just pretend that I couldn't. "It takes away from the beauty' of flowers anyway, "I used to tell him" . We are not concerned with the beauty in this course'. he would say. “We are concerned solely with what I may call the mechanics" , “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 seenothing at till, 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 may 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.
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