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1、2012届高考英语实战演练专题阅读理解（36-40）附详析 (第36篇) 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 netw
2、ork. 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 worlds longest
3、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 f
4、rom 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 trade
5、d 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 Roma
6、ns. The Romans used grafting to grow the apple. Trading along the Silk Road led to worldwide 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
7、(宗教)5. Its probable that traders along the Silk Road needed_.A. to remember the entire trade routeB. to know the making of productsC. to receive certain special trainingD. to deal with a lot of difficulties解析细节理解题。根据“The routes crossed mountains and deserts and had many dangers of hot sun，deep snow
8、and even battles.Only experienced traders could return safe.”可知D项正确。答案D6. The Silk Road became less important because_.A. it was made up of different routesB. silk trading became less popularC. sea travel provided easier routesD. people needed fewer foreign goods解析细节理解题。根据“It was used from about 200
9、B.C.，to about AD1300，when sea travel offered new routes”能找到原因是“sea travel provided easier routes”。答案C7. New technologies could travel along the Silk Road because people_.A. learned from one anotherB. shared each others beliefsC. traded goods along the routeD. earned their living by traveling解析细节理解题。
10、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。答案A8. What is the best title for the passage?A. The Silk Road：Past and PresentB. The Silk Road: East Meets WestC. The Silk Ro
11、ad：Routes Full of DangersD. The Silk Road：Pathways for Learning解析主旨大意题。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 Meet
12、s West是最佳标题。答案B (第37篇)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,
13、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
14、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
15、 DNA s parts and then putting them together. In the meantime, at King s College in London, Franklin and Wilkins shone Xrays at the molecule (分子). The rays produced patterns reflecting the shape.But Wilkins and Franklins relationship was a lot rockier than the celebrated teamwork of Watson and Crick.
16、 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 Xray 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，“
