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中考英语时文读写训练:火没能烧掉的那座图书馆

2026-11-13 01:36

In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius buried a Roman villa near Herculaneum under twenty metres of ash. Inside lay about 1,800 papyrus scrolls — the only library to survive from the ancient world. The heat had turned them into black, brittle cylinders, as fragile as cigar ash. For two centuries, scholars could do little but look at them. When a machine was built in the 1750s to unroll the scrolls slowly, it destroyed many of them; the rest were given up as lost.

Then, in 2023, a group of computer scientists and classicists tried a different route. Instead of opening the scrolls, they scanned them with high-energy X-rays and published the images online, offering cash prizes to anyone who could turn them into readable text. In October 2023, a student won a small prize for finding a single word: porphyras, "purple". Four months later, three young coders announced that they had recovered more than 2,000 characters — about five percent of one scroll. The author was Philodemus, a philosopher who wrote about pleasure, anger and the fear of death.

The method is not magic. A scan records thousands of thin cross-sections. A computer then follows the spiral of the rolled papyrus and flattens it into a page, much as you might peel an apple in one long ribbon. Ancient ink contains no metal, so it hardly differs from the papyrus in the scan. But it lies slightly above the surface, and an AI trained on millions of tiny bumps can learn to feel the letters.

In May 2025, the title of a scroll kept at Oxford was read while the scroll itself stayed closed: On Vices. Serious problems remain. Where the sheets are crushed, the software still needs human help, and a model trained on one scroll often fails on the next. Yet a world that had been silent for 1,900 years has started to speak — slowly, one sentence at a time.

1. What does the passage say about the 1,800 scrolls?

A.They were found in a villa that the eruption never buried.
B.They were copied by monks during the Middle Ages.
C.They are the only ancient library that has come down to us.
D.They were moved to Oxford soon after the eruption.

2. The underlined word "recovered" in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.

A.succeeded in reading them from the scanned images
B.became healthy again after a long illness
C.hid them so that other people could not see them
D.wrote them down on paper a second time

3. Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?

A.1→23→4
B.12→3→4
C.1→2→34
D.1→2→3→4

4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A.A Volcano That Still Threatens a City in Italy
B.How Machines Are Reading a Buried Library
C.Philodemus: A Philosopher Who Loved Pleasure
D.Why Ancient Ink Is So Hard to See

【答案与解析】

1. C2. A3. D4. B

第 1 题C。第一段介绍这批书卷时给的定位非常明确："the only library to survive from the ancient world"，即“古代世界唯一留存下来的图书馆”，C 项用 "the only ancient library that has come down to us" 把 "survive" 换成同义的 "come down to us"，是对原文的准确转述。A 项与开篇事实相反——别墅正是被火山灰埋了二十米才封存下这些书卷，"never buried" 一说明显违背原文。B 项凭空添出“中世纪修士抄写”，全文没有任何人抄写书卷；第③段反而说古人用的是纸莎草与墨，与修士抄本无关，属无中生有。D 项把第四段的牛津偷挪到灾后：原文说的是 "a scroll kept at Oxford" 直到 2025 年才被读出书名，而不是灾后就被运走；且这 1,800 卷当时仍埋在别墅里，属时间与事实双重错位。

第 2 题A。判断词义要紧扣同一句给出的“计量”线索："they had recovered more than 2,000 characters — about five percent of one scroll"，破折号后面的 "about five percent of one scroll" 说明这 2,000 多个字符是“从一整卷书里弄出来的内容量”，而前一文说他们的办法是把扫描图像 "turn them into readable text"，奖金也发给能做成这件事的人，可见 recovered 在这里是“（从扫描图像中）成功读出、把文字重新找回来”。B 项套用 recover 最常见的“康复”义，但主语是三位程序员、宾语是 2,000 个字符——人不会“病好了”一串文字，词义与搭配都对不上，是最容易误选的干扰项。C 项说“藏起来不让人看”，与原文 "published the images online" 以及公开悬赏、人人可参与的开放做法正相反。D 项说“又手抄一遍”，文中无任何人手抄，第③段恰恰强调是 AI 从墨迹的微小凸起里“摸”出字母，属无据。

第 3 题D。四段是“问题—突破—原理—评价”的直线推进：第①段交代这批书卷为什么两千年读不了（火山灰掩埋、高温碳化、18 世纪的展卷机反而毁了不少）；第②段写 2023 年换了一条路——不打开、只扫描，把图像公开并设奖金，随即给出第一个词与 2,000 多字符的成果；第③段退一步讲清“为什么能成”，从扫描切片、沿螺旋展平到 AI 识别墨迹凸起；第④段落到 2025 年读出书名、仍然存在的困难，以及 "a world that had been silent for 1,900 years has started to speak" 这一评价。四步环环相扣，故为 ①→②→③→④。A 项把②③并列，但②是“发生了什么”的叙事（学生得奖、三人公布成果），③是“为什么可行”的机制说明，一为事件、一为原理，不能合并。B 项把①②并成一类，可①写的是两百年屡试屡败，②开头 "Then" 一转进入 2023 年的成功，方向正好相反，是先后关系不是并列。C 项把③④合并，而③全段在讲方法，④开头 "In May 2025" 已跳到新成果，又以 "Yet" 收束全文，功能与③不同。

第 4 题B。好标题要能同时罩住“被埋的书”和“读它的新办法”。全文主线就是：一座被火山灰封死的古代图书馆，靠着 X 射线扫描与人工智能，在书卷从未被打开的情况下把希腊文一句句读了出来——B 项 "How Machines Are Reading a Buried Library" 两半各对应一面，"How" 还正好呼应第③段对原理的交代，覆盖面最全。A 项只取了“火山”这个背景，全文重心不是火山至今仍威胁城市，而是“从灰里读出文字”，偏离主旨。C 项把 Philodemus 当成主角，可这位哲学家只在第②段末尾作为“被读出来的作者”出现一次，是支撑性细节，撑不起标题，属以偏概全。D 项只对应第③段最后两句（墨不含金属、靠微小凸起识别），是原理链条中的一环，既不涉及被埋的图书馆，也不涉及 2025 年的进展，范围过窄。

【相关词汇拓展】

#	词汇	词性	基本含义	文中含义
1	papyrus	n.	纸莎草；纸莎草纸	古罗马书卷的书写材料，被烧成黑炭的那批书卷的材质
2	brittle	adj.	易碎的；脆的	碳化后的书卷一碰就碎，脆得像雪茄灰
3	cylinder	n.	圆柱体；圆筒	卷起来又被烧硬的书卷，成了黑色圆筒
4	fragile	adj.	易损坏的；脆弱的	薄如纸灰，经不起任何触碰
5	survive	v.	幸存；留存下来	古代世界唯一“活到今天”的图书馆
6	scholar	n.	学者	两百年间只能看、不能读的研究者
7	unroll	v.	展开；铺开（卷起之物）	18 世纪的机器想把书卷慢慢摊开，结果毁了不少
8	classicist	n.	古典学者；古希腊罗马研究者	与计算机科学家合作的文献专家，负责辨认希腊文
9	scan	v.	扫描；透视检查	用高能 X 射线给不能打开的书卷做“透视”
10	readable	adj.	可读的；读得懂的	把扫描图像还原成能认出字母的文字
11	announce	v.	宣布；公布	三位年轻程序员对外公布读出的成果
12	recover ★	v.	找回；恢复	（从扫描图像中）成功读出 2,000 多个字符
13	character	n.	字符；文字	一个个希腊字母，也是衡量成果多少的单位
14	philosopher	n.	哲学家	被读出来的作者菲洛德穆斯，写快乐、愤怒与怕死
15	cross-section	n.	横截面；切片	一次扫描记录的成千上万张薄切片
16	spiral	n.	螺旋；螺旋形	卷起的纸莎草一圈圈往里绕的走向
17	flatten	v.	使变平；压平	把螺旋面“摊”成一整页平面文字
18	peel	v.	剥（皮）；揭下	像削苹果皮那样，一整条不间断地揭下来
19	bump	n.	凸起；小鼓包	墨迹略高于纸面形成的微小起伏，AI 靠它“摸”出字
20	crush	v.	压碎；压皱	被压皱压扁的地方，软件仍要人帮忙判断

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