人教版高考英语二轮复习阅读理解强化100题（5）（含解析）.docx

2023届高考英语二轮复****阅读理解强化100题（5）
1.    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, 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 was missing was that she had died of cancer four years before the Nobel decision.
    At the University of Cambridge in the 1950s, Watson and Crick tried to make models by cutting up shapes of DNA's parts and then putting them together. Meanwhile, at King's College London, Franklin and Wilkins shone X-rays at the molecule. The rays produced patterns reflecting the shape.
    But the relationship between Wilkins and Franklin was a lot rockier. 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 X-ray 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. "Mere inspection suggested that she would not easily bend. Clearly she had to go or be put in her place."
    "As Franklin's competitors, Wilkins, Watson and Crick had much to gain by cutting her out of the little group of researchers," says historian Pnina Abir-Am. In 1962 at the Nobel Prize award ceremony, Wilkins thanked 13 colleagues by name before he mentioned Franklin. Watson wrote his book laughing at her. Crick wrote in 1974 that "Franklin was only two steps away from the solution."
    No, Franklin was the solution. "She contributed more than any other player to solving the structur