高三英语最新3年高考2年模拟 阅读理解之科普知识类.doc

科普知识类 第一部分 五年高考题荟萃 2010年高考题 Passage 1 (10·安徽B篇) Have you ever wondered? Why do airplanes take longer to fly west than east? It can take five hours to go west-east from New York(NY) to London bur seven hours to travel east-west from London to NY. The reason for the difference is an atmospheric phenomenon known as the jet(喷射) stream. The jet stream is a very high altitude wind which always blows from the west to the east across the Atlantic. The planes moving at a constant air speed thus go faster in the west-east direction when they are moving with the wind than in the opposite direction. What