501 Critical Reading Questions

Critical Reading Questions

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and drive depicted in the passage. Choices b and e are incorrect;
Leeuwenhoek was not trained nor did he know that his discover-
ies would later help to cure disease.
173.
c. Inspired means to exert an animating or enlivening influence on. In
the context of the passage, Leeuwenhoek’s creation of microscope
lenses were influenced by the lenses used by drapers.
174.
a. The quotation highlights the value Leeuwenhoek placed on shar-
ing his discoveries with other scientists. He states that he thought it
was my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious
people might be informed thereof (lines 27–28).
175.
b. The tone of the passage is positive. However, ecstatic reverence
(choice a) is too positive and tepid approval (choice c) is not 
positive enough.
176.
c. Nowhere in the passage does the author speculate about whether
teenagers can change their exercise habits.
177.
c. One meaning of sedentary is settled; another meaning is doing or
requiring much sitting. Stationary, defined as fixed in a course or
mode, is closest in meaning.
178.
e. The last sentence illustrates factors that motivate teenagers to
exercise by using the results of a national survey to provide spe-
cific examples.
179.
d. The passage promotes change in teenagers’ exercise habits by
emphasizing the benefits of exercise, the moderate amount of
exercise needed to achieve benefits, and some factors that may
encourage teenagers to exercise.
180.
c. The focus of the passage is Blackwell’s efforts to open the profes-
sion of medicine to women. Lines 3–4 state that Blackwell sup-
ported women’s medical education and helped many other women’s
careers.
181.