2018届高三英语总复习第一部分回归教材Unit3Inventorsandinventions课时作业新人教版选修820171010139.docVIP

Unit 3 Inventors and inventions Ⅰ.阅读理解 (2017·河北省冀州中学高三年级考试) Almost every machine with moving parts has wheels, yet no one knows exactly when the first wheel was invented or what it was used for. We do know, however, that they existed over 5,500 years ago in ancient Asia. The oldest known transport wheel was discovered in 2002 in Slovenia. It is over 5,100 years old. Evidence suggests that wheels for transport didnt become popular for a while, though. This could be because animals did a perfectly good job of carrying farming tools and humans around. But it could also be because of a difficult s