九年级英语阅读训练

（一）

I have always loved cars. After graduating from college, I got one, which I regarded as my favourite friend. I called it Victor. For the next three years, everything I did was connected with(与„„有关 )Victor. I lived a happy life. But because of money problems, I had to sell Victor. Then my life broke down. Without Victor, I was like a fish out of water. Three months later, with the encouragement of my friends, I decided to start a new life. I tried and made it. Everything went well again. Losing my car made me grow up. I have learned that life won’t always go our way, but we can choose to be positive(积极的)and make the best of it. 1 of the car Victor Time of getting the car 2 graduating from college Reason for 3 the car to someone Because of money problems Feelings of losing the car Like a fish out of 4 Improvement from the experience 5 won’t always go our way. We can be positive. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

（二）

Grace is in chocolate trouble! Last week her boss, Mr. Clark, came back from Europe and brought some chocolates into the office. At lunch, when she went to the office refrigerator to get her lunch, she saw the box of the chocolates there, and she thought it was for them! But for the rest of the day, her boss didn’t say anything. She kept checking the refrigerator, and back at her desk. She couldn’t stop thinking of the chocolates.

Then, around 4:00, she pretended to go for coffee, but in fact she went to the restroom and took out the box of the chocolates. She was only going to smell it. But when she had it in her hands, she thought,“It’s OK； it’s for us. Why not have my piece a little earlier?”So she opened it up and ate one and went back to her desk.

A bit later, Grace found herself back at the refrigerator. She looked at the box and noticed the box still looked full. She thought,“It doesn’t matter for me to have a second piece.”It was so delicious that she couldn’t help eating a third, a fourth„until suddenly she had eaten half the box. She felt really stupid. She was afraid that others would find that. So she closed the box and tied the ribbon(丝带)again.

The next day, Grace knew the chocolates were for an important guest.

When the guest opened the box and it was half empty, Mr. Clark felt so embarrassed. That was a week ago. But he still keeps asking who ate the chocolates. And all the others complain about that. Grace never thought this problem would get so big. What should she do? Should she give up her job? Tell her boss the truth? Just let it be? She’s in so much trouble. 6.Where did the boss put the chocolates?

7.Did the boss know Grace ate the chocolates?

8.How many chocolates did Grace eat?

9.Who did the boss buy the chocolates for?

10.What do you think Grace should do at last?

（三）

Have you ever seen the film Traveling Bird? In the film, groups of birds fly high above the sky and cross the way above snow, rivers, fields, sea and grassland. I’m sure you will love the beautiful picture when you see the film.

But you may not feel so good if you have learnt about bird flu(禽流感)from TV or on the Internet. Some governments had to kill chickens in their cities. A large number of chickens and even some people died in Asia, and nearly 8,500 birds died in Russia because of bird flu.

Chickens can get bird flu from the feces(粪便)of the passing birds. It is not so difficult to control the chickens in cages or on farms. But it is much more difficult to control the birds in the sky.

Luckily, scientists have found a medicine for bird flu. But the virus(病毒)can change easily and quickly. So bird flu is still a serious problem we must face.

根据短文内容，判断正（T）误（F）。

( )11.We know how birds get bird flu from the film Traveling Bird. ( )12.Not only birds and chickens but also man can get bird flu. ( )13.The feces of the passing birds can not cause bird flu.

( )14.It is easier to control chickens than to control flying birds. ( )15.Scientists have found the medicine, so we needn’t worry about

bird flu any more.

(四)

Yellowstone is a huge park covering over 3,400 square miles in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. It can be reached by air to Cody or Jackson, 50 miles from the entrances. There is no train service nearby. Limited(有限的)bus service is used from some of the towns near it. Once

in the area, a car is almost a must. The park has 5 entrances, which are open from May to October. It is a good idea to plan a trip during the good weather, but expect big crowds and slow traffic. Parts of the park are open in the winter for snow sports.

Be sure to come prepared(准备)for different weather at any time of the year. Take enough of your clothing so you will be prepared for unexpected changes in temperature. Take good walking shoes and thick socks, if you are going to do any hiking. You can also see the park on horseback.

If you want to learn about Yellowstone, the National Park Service has many talks, films and tours to help you to understand it. 16.How large is Yellowstone National Park?

17.What is a must if you are in the area?

18.Why are parts of the park open in winter?

19.What do you need to take while going to do any hiking?

20.Where can you find more information about Yellowstone?

(五)

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Richmond Film Society. Tonight, we begin a season of Marilyn Monroe films. Before we start the film I’d like to say just a few words about Marilyn Monroe’s life.

Marilyn was born in Los Angeles in 1926, but had quite a sad life as a child. Her father didn’t want to see her from the time she was born and her mother became ill when she was very young and stayed in hospital for a long period of time. Between 1926 and 1935, Marilyn lived with lots of different families.

In 1935, she went to a school for girls with no parents, but didn’t like it and left in 1942 when she married Jim Dougherty. In 1949 she met the famous film director Johnny Hyde, and in 1950 she made her first film, The Asphalt Jungle. Between 1950 and 1961 she made thirty-one films. She was, however, never very happy, she died in Hollywood in 1962.

Personal Information

Name: Marilyn Monroe

Birth place: 21 Nationality: U.S.A

Age of the first marriage(结婚): 22 Name of her first film: 23

Achievements(成就)1950-1961: 24 Age of death: 25

(六)

In a classroom in any countries, the teacher teaches more than art or history or language. He or she teaches something behind-the culture(文化)of the country.

In a country such as the United States, people with different history, culture and language join together and they pay much attention to personal ideas. Teachers try to make each student special. Students do not have to remember a lot of information, instead, they work and find answers by themselves. There is often discussion in the classroom. At an early age students learn to have their own ideas. Their education encourages personal thought(思想). The importance is placed on how to arrive at an answer and not only to get the correct answer.

In most Asian countries, people have the same language, history and culture. Perhaps for this reason, the education there pays more attention to group goals than personal ideas. Children in China and Japan often work together and help each other on homework. In the classroom. In the classroom, the ways of teaching are often very traditional. The teacher says, and the students listen. There is not much discussion. Instead, the students repeat(重复)rules or information that they have been taught in order to keep them in mind.

In many ways these differences come from different educational ideas. In Western countries teachers are taught to help students to learn. They make it easier for the students to learn by themselves. In some Asian countries, however, teachers often feel that their job is to pass knowledge to students.

26. Do students in the United States have to remember a lot of information?

27. There is often discussion in the classroom in America, isn’t there? 28. What does the education in the United States encourage?

29. Which does the education in some Asian countries pay more attention

to, group goals or personal ideas?

30. Put the sentence “In some Asian countries, however, teachers often

feel that their job is to pass knowledge to students.” into Chinese.

(七)

Americans love sports-they love to play them, to watch them on television, and to talk about them. But this hobby sometimes has serious

results-at least to the players. For example, when people play tennis, sometimes they hurt their elbow(肘部)and in this way they develop“tennis elbow”. Also it is easy to hurt a knee in a football game. These injuries(损伤)happen while the player is having fun, but they still hurt.

A few months ago, Kathleen Simmons, who loves playing volleyball, hurt her knee in a volleyball game. Her doctor told her that she needed a very difficult operation(手术)or she might not be able to play again. She felt very sad and didn’t know what to do.

Then Simmons learned about“video operation”. With the help of this new science in medicine, doctors can now repair many injuries and get people back on the playing field and back to their jobs much faster. Simmons found a hospital that was using this new science and went to see the doctor there. The doctors told her the operation could help.

For this operation, her doctor didn’t have to open her knee. Instead he put a very small camera lens(镜头)inside her knee. The lens sent back pictures, which appeared on a television screen. As he worked, he could see the inside of her knee on the TV. With the help of the large pictures on the screen, the doctor knew exactly what to do when he was making the repairs.

Simmons started walking five days after her operation. “My knee hurt a lot the first few days,”she said.“But I felt better very quickly.”Now, six months after her operation, Simmons can do everything she did before her injury.“It feels like a new knee,”she said.“I can even play volleyball again.”

31. Do Americans love sports?

32. What sport is Simmons interested in?

33. What did the doctor put inside Simmons’ knee?

34. What problem may people have when they sports?

35. What’s the advantage(优点)of the new science?

(八)

Louis Braille was born near Paris, France. He was clever and he liked to play with his father’s work tools. One day, when he was four, a tool went into his left eye. And there was something wrong with both his eyes. He was unlucky enough to be blind.

At ten, he went to school for blind children in paris. One day a French soldier, Charles Barbier, visited the school. Barbier invented a system(系统)of night-reading. This system used dots(点)for the letters such as A,B or C. Barbier thought this system could help blind

people to read.

Barbier’s system was difficult. Louis improved his system and made the blind use it more easily. By the age of fifteen, his new system got finished. So he wanted blind schools to use it. But unluckily none of the schools wanted it. Louis died in 1852. two years, the blind schools began to use his system.

Today we call this system Braille(盲文)after Louis Braille. His system is used for all languages, and for math, science, writing music and computers for the blind.

36. How did Louis become blind when he was young?

37. Could Barbier’s system help the blind to read?

38. In which year did the blind school begin to use Louis’ system? 39. Is Louis’ system named after Barbier or Braille?

40. What do you think of Braille’s life?

(九)

Sitting at the dinner table and sleeping in bed is normal(正常的)for you. How is an astronaut’s(宇航员)life in Shenzhou VI different from yours?

Eating: Astronauts in a spaceship face a choice because of no gravity(引力). They may pick their food, use their hands and put it into their mouths. Or they may let the food stay in the air. Then they float(漂浮)to the food and get it with their mouths. Astronauts have to remember to close their mouths tightly(紧紧的)while eating. Any crumb(碎屑)could cause big trouble. Bits of food that stay in the air can go into astronauts’ noses when they are breathing.

Sleeping：Shenzhou VI astronauts sleep on the wall of the spaceship. People float in a spaceship where there isn’t any gravity. So scientists fix(固定)sleeping bags to the wall to help astronauts.

41. Is the life on the earth just the same as that in a spaceship? 42. Where do Shenzhou VI astronauts sleep in the spaceship?

43. Why do astronauts in a spaceship face a choice?

44. What do the astronauts have to do while eating?

45. What does this passage(段落)mainly tell us?

(十)

In our solar system(太阳系), Earth and the other seven planets travel around the sun. unlike Earth, Saturn(土星)has rings. The chart shows more ways in which Saturn and Earth are different. Category(类别) Earth Saturn Average distance(平均93 million miles 890 million miles 距离)from the sun Length(长度)of day 24 hours 10 hours 39 minutes Length of year Number of moons(卫星) What it’s made of 365 days 1 Rock and water About 10,585 days 33 Gas(气体)(hydrogen and helium) 46. From the chart we can know that Saturn is from the sun than Earth.

47. Saturn has than Earth.

48. A day on Saturn is shorter than a day . 49. Earth is made of .

50. There are planets in our solar system besides(除

了„„还)Earth and Saturn.

（十一） Painting Competition For all the students from 8 to 16 years old Paint a picture of an animal Send it to: Young Artist Centre 14 High Street Before 30 Sept. and win a schoolbag. Summer Job Do you like to talk with people? Do you like to write stories? And do you want to work for a students’ magazine? Please come and work for us as a reporter for two months. Call Wendy at 8437653. Cooking Tour Please join Cooking Tour. You can visit New York and six other American cities. And visit the best restaurant. Eat the most delicious food in the world. Study American cooking. Length of trip: 18 days Group: 16-18 people Cost: $ 6,300 Found White wallet with some money. Come to Room 312 between 2 p.m.and 3 p.m. on Friday. Call Penny at 6726336. Wanted A house with a garden. Under 260 yuan a month. Call John at 8674556. 51. Mary has found a job as a reporter. How long can she work there? 52. Can Peter get back his wallet if he goes to Room 312 at 4:30 on Friday? 53. Anna hands in a picture and wins the prize. What do you think she

may draw?

54. If you join Cooking Tour, how many American cities can you visit

and how long will you stay in the USA?

55. Jack needs a house with a garden. If he live for half a year, how

much will he pay at most?

（十二）

People all over the world eat rice. Millions of people in Asia, Africa and South America eat it every day of their lives. Some people eat almost nothing but rice.

Rice is kind of grass. There are more than 7,000 kinds of rice. Farmers grow rice in many countries, even in the southern part of the United States and in eastern Australia.

No one really knows where rice came from. Some scientists think that it started to grow in two places. They think that one kind of rice grew in southern Asia thousands of years ago. Someone in China wrote about it almost 5,000 years ago. Another kind probably grew in West Africa. Other scientists think that rice came from India, and Indian travelers took it to other parts of the world.

These are two main ways to grow rice. Most rice grows in wet soil. People in many countries do all of the work of growing rice by hand. This is the same way farmers worked hundreds of years ago. In some countries, people now use machines on their rice farms.

People use every part of the rice plant. They make animal feed and rice oil from it. They also make baskets, brooms and roofs for their houses. They burn dry rice plants in fires for cooking. 56. How many kinds of rice are there?

57. Where do scientists think rice came from?

58. How did farmers grow rice hundreds of years ago?

59. Which part of the rice plant can be used?

60. What do you think is the best way to grow rice? Why?

(十三) F 61 In school, don’t feel Eating good meals is necessary, something difficult or boring. or you will be thinking a bout food You should join in all kinds of in class. Go to bed on time and keep activities. You should be having enough deep. Do more sports interested in all subjects. keep your body strong. 62 63 Don’t make any excuse if you If you fail some exams, you can put off today’s things to feel disappointed(沮丧). It tomorrow. If the class is held doesn’t matter. A person is never up(耽误), it’s difficult to catch perfect. Sometimes he also has up with others. unpleasant things. 64 65 You shouldn’t play computers If your last grade was a C, you too much on weekends. You should should work hard for a B. always often do some sports and go out think：“I’ll speak in class five for a walk every day. times this week” or “I’ll remember ten English words a day”. 阅读短文内容，仿照示例F将A-E分别填入文中空缺处，使标题与内容相匹配。

A. Plan You Time

B. Do Today’s Work Today C. Set Goals D. Keep Healthy E. Keep Hopeful

F. Be Positive about School

（十四）

It’s true that we need some forms of recreation(娱乐). If wwe are going to keep healthy and enjoy life, we can’t work all the time. Everyone has his own way of relaxing. Perhaps the most popular was is to take part in sports. There are team sports, such as baseball, basketball and football. There are individual(个人的)sports, such as golf and swimming. Fishing, skiing and hiking are also great attractions for people.

Not everyone who enjoys sporting events like to take part in them. Many people prefer to be spectators(观众), either by watching them on

TV, or listening to them on the radio. When there is an important baseball game or boxing match on, it is almost impossible to get tickets to see it live(现场传播).

Chess, card playing and dancing are other forms of indoor recreation enjoyed by many people.

It’s important for everyone to relax from time to time and enjoy some forms of recreation.

66. People can relax themselves in different ways, can’t they?

67. Please name one kind of team sports.

68. Which sport can you have if you are by yourself, football, baseball

or swimming?

69. Is it easy to get tickets to see it live when there is an important match? 70. Why does everybody need to relax sometimes?

(十五)

Jane was spending her holiday in Scotland. Two days ago she sent a letter to Mary and a card to Mr. and Mrs. Black. Today Mr. and Mrs. Black received the card and Mary got the letter,“What does Jane say in her card, Mum? Let me have a look.” Mary said.

Jane said in her card,“I have visited lots of places. How are you all? I miss you very much.” Mary stopped her mother and said,“The card is much shorter than the letter to me. Her letter is full of interesting things. Let me read it to you.”

“I went to Edinburgh by train. I stayed there for three daysandthen I went to the mountains. I met a lot of young people there. They climbed some mountains. I have been to many famous lakes. Besides, I have also visited several very famous places there. I find Scotland is much more beautiful than England. By the way, the hotel is very nice and I have made many new friends. I am having a wonderful time here.” 71. When did Mr. and Mrs. Black receive the card?

72. Who is Mary?

73. How did Jane go to Edinburgh?

74. Which places didn’t Jane go to?

75. How did Jane think about Scotland?

（十六）

Is it hard for you to get up early and get ready for classes? Some students at Winter park High School just quickly get up and go to class in their own bedrooms. Of course, their teachers and classmates do not see them because all their class work is on the computer.

The Florida high School, the state’s only on-line school, has 250 students who are taking classes at home by computer.

“I’m a lot more comfortable at home,”says Luke Levesque, a 16-year-old who is taking a computer class on line. He thinks(A)the school’s computer lab is so noisy that he can’t study well.“Home is much better,”he says.

Students in this first on-line program take classes in math, American government, chemistry, computer, and Web-page design(设计). They also have to go to regular(正规的)school for other classes.

When a student is ready to begin in class, he or she(B) the computer, reads the teacher’s instructions, and begin working on the lesson for the day. What happens if a student has a question for the teacher? Or the teacher wants say something about the work a student is doing? The student and the teacher talk to each other every day through e-mail or by telephone.

Is it easy for students cheat on tests(考试作弊)when they’re working at home? (C)The teachers have already thought about this. They make students take their final exams in person in the classroom.

“You see most of the same things on-line that you see in a regular classroom,”says teacher Linda Hayes.

If this first on-line program goes well, in three years Florida High School students will be able to take all their classes by computer. When that happens, students will be able to get their high school diplomas(毕业证书)without having to (D)走进教室. 76.将画线部分（A）改写成the school’s computer lab is noisy for to study well.

77.在（B）的空白处填入适当的词语 78.将画线部分（C）译成汉语 79.将画线部分（D）译成英语 80.在正文中找出能够说明主题的短语