20XX山东高考阅读理解题材汇编---文化类.docx

20XX山东高考阅读理解题材汇编 文化类 篇一：20XX年高考英语试题分类汇编 科普类阅读理解 Word版含解析 20XX年高考英语试题分类汇编之科普类阅读理解 【重庆卷】C 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 20XX in Slovenia. It is over 5,100 years old. Evidence suggests that wheels for transport didn't bexxe 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 situation. While wheels need to roll on smooth surfaces, roads with smooth surfaces weren't going to be constructed until there was plenty of demand for them. Eventually, road surfaces did bexxe smoother, but this difficult situation appeared again a few centuries later. There had been no important changes in wheel and vehicle design before the arrival of modemroad design. In the mid-1700s, a Frenchman came up with a new design of road — a base layer of large stones covered with a thin layer of smaller stones. A Scotsman improved on this design in the 1820s and a strong, lasting road surface became a reality. At around the same lime, metal hubs came into being, followed by the pneumatic tyre in 1846. Alloy wheels were invented in 1967, sixty years after the appearance of tarmacked roads . As wheel design took off, vehicles got faster and faster. What might explain why transport wheels didn't bexxe popular for some time Few knew how to use transport wheels. Humans carried farming tools just as well. Animals were a good means of transport. The existence of transport wheels was not known. What do we know about road design from the passage It was easier than wheel design. It improved after big changes in vehicle design. It was promoted by fast-moving vehicles. It provided conditions for wheel design to develop. How is the last paragraph mainly developed B