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2010考研英语一阅读解析 2010年的考研英语一阅读部分是一篇科普类的文章，题目为“The Milky Way”。本文主要介绍了银河系的起源、演化以及银河系的一些特征。下面是对该文章的解析及相关参考内容。The Milky Way, the galaxy containing our solar system, is about 100 thousand light years across and about 10 thousand light years thick at the center. It contains more than 100 billion stars, including our sun, and vast amounts of gas and dust, organized into a familiar spiral shape composed of arms, a central ‘bar-like’ structure, and a halo component which extends from the plane of the disk.本段首先介绍了银河系是包含太阳系的星系，其大小约100,000光年，并含有超过1000亿颗恒星。文章提到了银河系由螺旋臂、中央的“条状”结构和从盘面延伸的光晕组成。At least 100 satellite galaxies are gravitationally bound to the Milky Way, which itself is part of a larger conglomerate of galaxies known as the Local Group. The Local Group has about 40 member galaxies, but only two of them, the Milky Way and Andromeda, are visible to the naked eye. The Milky Way and Andromeda are on a collision course that will culminate in about 3 billion years. When that happens, the result will be a giant elliptical galaxy, made of the remains of both the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy.本段介绍了至少有100个卫星星系受到银河系的引力束缚，而银河系本身是一个更大的星系团的一部分，即所谓的“本地星系群”。文章还提到本地星系群包含大约40个成员星系，其中只有银河系和仙女座星系能被肉眼看到。银河系和仙女座星系正朝着碰撞的方向运动，将在大约30亿年后相撞，形成一个巨大的椭圆星系。The spiral arm pattern in the disk of the Milky Way is most likely a recurring wave of star formation that builds up roughly every half a billion years. The star formation wave is thought to be a result of gravitational instabilities caused by interactions between the stars and clouds of gas and dust. As the wave passes, the gas and dust compress to form new stars. These new stars, in turn, emit radiation that sweeps the wave outwards, creating a new structure that can last for millions of years. 本段解释了银河系盘面上的螺旋臂模式是由于每约50亿年形成的一次星际尘埃云与恒星之间相互作用引起的重力不稳定性所致。星际尘埃云压缩形成新的恒星，并释放出辐射，这个辐射扩散出去并形成新的结构，持续时间可达数百万年。The central bar-like structure is thought to be composed of stars that were born in the Milky Way and then migrated into the central r