2012届高考英语二轮专题复习 阅读理解（九）

用心 爱心 专心 1 20122012 届高考英语二轮专题精品复习资料阅读理解 九 届高考英语二轮专题精品复习资料阅读理解 九 1 Runners in a relay 接力 race pass a stick in one direction However merchants passed silk gold fruit and glass along the Silk Road in more than one direction They earned their living by traveling the famous Silk Road The Silk Road was not a simple trading network It passed through thousands of cities and towns It started from eastern China across Central Asia and the Middle East and ended in the Mediterranean Sea It was used from about 200 B C to about A D 1300 when sea travel offered new routes 路线 It was sometimes called the world s longest highway However the Silk Road was made up of many routes not one smooth path They passed through what are now 18 countries The routes crossed mountains and deserts and had many dangers of hot sun deep snow and even battles Only experienced traders could return safe The Silk Road got its name from its most prized product Silk could be used like money to pay taxes or buy goods But the traders carried more than just silk Gold silver and glass from Europe were much found in the Middle East and Asia Horses traded from other areas changed farming practices in China Indian merchants traded salt and other valuable goods Chinese merchants traded paper which produced an immediate effect on the West Apples traveled from central Asia to Rome The Chinese had learned to graft 嫁接 different trees together to make new kinds of fruit They passed this science on to others including the Romans The Romans used grafting to grow the apple Trading along the Silk Road led to world wide business 2000 years before the World Wide Web The people along the Silk Road did not share just goods They also shared their beliefs The Silk Road provided pathways for learning diplomacy 外交 and religion 宗教 5 It s probable that traders along the Silk Road needed A to remember the entire trade route B to know the making of products C to receive certain special training D to deal with a lot of difficulties 详解剖析 细节理解题 根据 The routes crossed mountains and deserts and had many dangers of hot sun deep snow and even battles Only experienced traders could return safe 可知 D 项正确 最佳选项 D 6 The Silk Road became less important because A it was made up of different routes B silk trading became less popular C sea travel provided easier routes D people needed fewer foreign goods 详解剖析 细节理解题 根据 It was used from about 200B C to about AD1300 when sea travel offered new routes 能找到原因是 sea travel provided easier routes 用心 爱心 专心 2 最佳选项 C 7 New technologies could travel along the Silk Road because people A learned from one another B shared each other s beliefs C traded goods along the route D earned their living by traveling 详解剖析 细节理解题 根据 The people along the Silk Road did not share just goods They also shared their beliefs The Silk Road provided pathways for learning diplomacy and religion 能看出人们彼此之间能学习一些东西 最佳选项 A 8 What is the best title for the passage A The Silk Road Past and Present B The Silk Road East Meets West C The Silk Road Routes Full of Dangers D The Silk Road Pathways for Learning 详解剖析 主旨大意题 根据 The Silk Road was not a simple trading network It passed through thousands of cities and towns It started from eastern China across Central Asia and the Middle East and ended in the Mediterranean Sea 可知 The Silk Road East Meets West 是最佳标题 最佳选项 B 2 Four people in England back in 1953 stared at Photo 51 It wasn t much a picture showing a black X But three of these people won the Nobel Prize for figuring out what the photo really showed the shape of DNA The discovery brought fame and fortune to scientists James Watson Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins The fourth the one who actually made the picture was left out Her name was Rosalind Franklin She should have been up there says historian Mary Bowden If her photos hadn t been there the others couldn t have come up with the structure One reason Franklin was missing was that she had died of cancer four years before the Nobel decision But now scholars doubt that Franklin was not only robbed of her life by disease but robbed of credit by her competitors At Cambridge University in the 1950s Watson and Crick tried to make models by cutting up shapes of DNA s parts and then putting them together In the meantime at King s College in London Franklin and Wilkins shone X rays at the molecule 分子 The rays produced patterns reflecting the shape But Wilkins and Franklin s relationship was a lot rockier than the celebrated teamwork of Watson and Crick Wilkins thought Franklin was hired to be his assistant But the college actually employed her to take over the DNA project What she did was produce X ray pictures that told Watson and Crick that one of their early models was inside out And she was not shy about saying so That angered Watson who attacked her in return Mere inspection suggested that she would not easily bend Clearly she had to go or be put in her place As Franklin s competitors Wilkins Watson and Crick had much to gain by 用心 爱心 专心 3 cutting her out of the little group of researchers says historian Pnina Abir Am In 1962 at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony Wilkins thanked 13 colleagues by name before he mentioned Franklin Watson wrote his book laughing at her Crick wrote in 1974 that Franklin was only two steps away from the solution No Franklin was the solution She contributed more than any other player to solving the structure of DNA She must be considered a co discoverer Abir Am says This was backed up by Aaron Klug who worked with Franklin and later won a Nobel Prize himself Once described as the Dark Lady of DNA Franklin is finally coming into the light 文章大意概括 谁发现了 DNA 仅仅只有 James Watson Francis Crick 和 Maurice Wilkins 吗 本文作者告诉我们 功劳也有 Rosalind Franklin 的一份 1 What is the text mainly about A The disagreements among DNA researchers B The unfair treatment of Franklin C The process of discovering DNA D The race between two teams of scientists 详解剖析 主旨大意题 通读全文 可知 Franklin 在 DNA 的发现中也做出了重要贡献 但却由于某些原因而不为人知 由此答案选 B 项 她受到了不公正的对待 最佳选项 B 2 Watson was angry with Franklin because she A took the