2022-2023学年人教版英语九年级全册期末复习阅读理解训练

九年级期末复习阅读理解训练

一、阅读单选

Buying Is Doing?

How important is shopping to you? How much time do you spend buying things? And how much time do you spend organizing these things in your home? In the future, how much time will you spend in movie theaters, at amusement parks, at shopping malls, or at convenience stores? When you add it all up, you will robably see you spend a lot of your life consuming (消费) things. Consuming products is not necessarily bad. However, if we spend too much time doing it, we should look at it carefully.

Imagine that you have a week off from school. You don't have to go to class. However, in this week, you cannot spend any money—no shopping, no movies, no eating out. How would you spend your time? What things would bring you happiness? Perhaps you would take a walk with your best friend. Perhaps you would help a child read. Or you might spend time with your family.

When we look back, it is likely that non-consuming experiences like these will be our most important memories. Why? Non-consuming activities are active, not passive. They don't come in a package. You make the experience yourself. For example, each person who reads to a child will have a different experience. The experience changes with the reader, the child, and the book. Similarly，when you have a conversation with a friend, you are actively creating an experience. The conversation that you have with your friend cannot be experienced or recreated by anyone else. However, if you watch a movie with a friend, you will each have a packaged experience. It requires no action and little interaction between the two of you.

The environment we live in encourages us to have packaged experiences. We feel that we must consume because we believe that buying is doing. However, we can start a personal revolution(变革) against consumerism. How? By consuming less. We can ask ourselves what experiences bring us the greatest satisfaction. Then we can organize our lives so that we have more of those kinds of experiences.

1．If consuming products takes too much time, we should_______.

A．spend less money B．think about it carefully

C．organize our things

2．According to the passage, the writer believes that_________.

A．we can say no to consumerism by consuming less

B．buying things can bring us the greatest satisfaction

C．the environment seldom influences our shopping choices

3．The word “those kinds of experiences” in the last sentence means________.

A．consuming experiences

B．Non-consuming experiences

C．Experiences that bring us great satisfaction

4．What is the writer’s main purpose in writing this passage?

A．To introduce some ways of enjoying our spare time.

B．To encourage people to have more active experiences.

C．To explain reasons behind people's shopping behavior.

In a village in Uganda, a woman named Fatima ran a small store. She sold food and other  useful items. However, she had trouble making enough money to keep the shelves stocked （储存的）. To stay in business, Fatima got a microfinance loan—a small total of money from a person in another country. It was just enough for her to buy a cell phone. She let villagers make calls using her phone and charged them some money for each call. This helped her make enough money to keep her shelves stocked with items. Fatima then used the money to send her children to school and improved their lives, as well as her own.

Microfinance is the practice of giving small loans to people in need. Most microfinance loans are for less than two hundred dollars. The loans are used to start or enlarge a small business, such as catching fish, raising chickens or selling produce. Lenders are willing to make these loans because most of the people who receive them are very likely （可能的）to repay the loans.

Microfinance loans are important for several reasons. The businesses that these loans support often provide needed services or goods to their communities. Also, many of the people who receive microfinance loans cannot get money any other way. Although they have to pay a rate （比率） of interest on the money they borrow, the rate is lower than if they borrowed from a local moneylender.

It doesn’t seem like such a small total of money could make a big difference, but microfinance loans have been shown to help improve some people's lives and put new life into the communities like Fatima's.

5．Why did Fatima get a microfinance loan?

A．To manage her small store.

B．To buy a cell phone for her neighbor

C．To help the villagers make money.

D．To afford her children's education.

6．What can we learn about microfinance?

A．It supports poor people for free.

B．It offers big loans to people in need.

C．It helps small businesses a lot.

D．It provides needed goods for local people.

7．What does the underlined word " interest " in Paragraph 3 probably mean in Chinese?

A．盈利 B．红利 C．利润 D．利息

8．From the text, we can infer （推断出）that __________________.

A．Fatima is the richest woman in her community

B．Few people in Fatima's village have cell phones

C．Microfinance will provide money for big companies

D．Most borrowers can hardly repay the loans

9．What would be the best title for the text?

A．A Little Can Go a Long Way

B．Small Businesses Make a Big Difference

C．A Cell Phone Brings a Better Life

D．Microfinance Loans Build a New World

More and more children have to stay at home alone today. It is important for them to know how to keep themselves safe when they are at home alone. If you are one of them, you should remember the following rules:

Arrive your home

When you come home, you should check the doors and windows to see if they are broken.

★If everything is OK, go inside and lock the door quickly. Remember: never leave your key in the lock and keep the door always closed.

★If something seems strange, or someone may be in the house, you should go to your neighbor’s house and call the police and your parents.

Answer the door

In some families, the rule is not to answer the door, but I think ignoring（忽视）the doorbell is not a good idea because sometimes bad people ring doorbells to see if anyone’s at home.

★If someone knocks at the door, you should identify the visitor before you open the door. Are they your parents’ friends or relatives? Or are they strangers who you never know?

★You can ask, “Yes, who is that?” looking through the keyhole to find out who it is and what he or she wants. If you don’t know the person very well, don’t open the door or give out any information about your family.

★If you know the person or if the person says your parents asked him or her to stop by, call your parents and check.

★If the person at the door has come to deliver a package or make a repair and you were not told to expect it, do not let him or her in. If you are expecting a delivery or repair person, ask him or her to slip an ID card under the door.

★If the visitor wants to speak to your parents , you should say “Mum’s having a shower ”or “Dad’s having a sleep” and offer to take a message.

10．The passage is for_________.

A．parents B．children C．the old D．the sick

11．What should you do first when you come home?

A．Knock the door quickly.

B．Go to the neighbor’s house.

C．Check the doors and windows.

D．Call your family and tell them you are at home.

12．The underlined word “ identify ” probably means_______.

A．ask where the visitors come from B．see whether you know the visitor

C．find out how old the visitor is D．make sure the visitor knows you

13．What is the purpose of the last rule in the passage?

A．Not to let the visitor see your parents.

B．Not to let your parents know someone is at the door.

C．Not to trouble your parents when are busy.

D．Not to let the visitor know you are at home alone.

Nowadays，phone calls and messages help us make regular contact(联系) with others.It means that we seldom write letters now.But a TV show，Letters Alive(《见字如面》)，is bringing back this old habit.

Letters Alive invites famous actors and actresses，but there are not funny jokes or different competitions.Instead，it's just one person walking up to a microphone and reading a letter.

The letters were written by people from different times in history.For example，in one episode(集)，they read a letter written by famous writer Xiao Hong to her younger brother in 1941.The letter shows that Xiao Hong missed her brother so much and had great hopes for his future.

“Every letter opens another world for us，” according to Guan Zhengwen，the director of the TV show.“It seems that we can experience the real lives and feelings of the writers.” Since its first episode on Dec.5，Letters Alive has been widely praised.Many audiences said that it has provided a breath of fresh air to today's TV shows.

Besides Letters Alive，some other cultural TV shows have also been well received by Chinese audiences.They include the Chinese Poetry Competition，a traditional Chinese poetry competition and Readers，a program that invites people to read poems and articles they like or wrote.They suggest that cultural values and true feelings are becoming our interest.

14．Letters Alive，a TV show，invites famous people to ________.

A．tell audiences jokes

B．read and share letters

C．walk up to a microphone to sing

D．enter different competitions

15．According to the passage，which sentence is RIGHT?

A．We can experience the real lives and feelings of the writers by reading letters.

B．Xiao Hong missed her brother but had no hope for his future.

C．Letters Alive is not popular enough to attract audiences.

D．Chinese Poetry Conference invites people to read poems and articles.

16．How many cultural TV shows are mentioned in this passage?

A．One. B．Two. C．Three. D．Four.

17．Chinese audiences ________ these cultural TV shows.

A．like B．dislike

C．show no interest in D．doubt about

18．What is the best title for the passage?

A．Phones Have Taken the Place of Letters

B．Welcome to Cultural TV Shows

C．Letters Encourage Us to Communicate

D．Cultural TV Shows Become Popular Again

Motivated (有内驱力的 )  or Overachieving?

Everyone has the occasional classmate who hands in his work ahead of time with really beautiful handwriting. Some teachers may cheerfully get the homework by saying "Of course you did it early.I'm sure you've done a good job!" Some teachers may feel annoyed because "The deadline is not until next Friday." Behind this student's back are tons of whispers from his classmates,  "Ugh, he is such an overachiever and it's so annoying ..."

If you ask the same student to explain his behavior, he probably says that he is simply "motivated". Such students refuse to call themselves overachievers but prefer "motivated" instead. They want to shy away from the unpleasant term "overachiever" but choose to embrace the word "motivated" .

Why is the term "overachiever" used as an insult (侮辱 )? Do we not all work hard to achieve our goals? Why does the "motivated" student not proudly call himself an "overachiever" ?

In my personal experience, being called an overachiever in front of my classmates is not pleasant at all. The word is often connected with an unkind smile or sometimes a hint ofjealousy (嫉妒 )."Overachiever" carries the implied (暗指的 ) sense which "over" lends it - you have done too much and you have gone too far. Anyway, it is beyond the proper degree and just annoying to those students who refuse to put in the effort themselves and get unhappy with you for doing so.

A student would rather think of himself as an excellent student and it is motivation that drives him to do his best. What is the implied meaning of "motivated" ? Connected with positive words like willpower, spirit and determination, the "motivated" student would appear to be competing in an event of the brain Olympics.

Although there are differences in their implications, the student who calls himself "motivated" could actually be a secret overachiever, going over the top for all his work; while the "overachiever" is nothing more than a motivated student, driven by the simple desire to do well and willing to put in time and effort. In fact, the choice lies within the student: to overachieve or not to overachieve; to find the motivation to do well and be driven by it, or to sit back and blame others for overachieving to hide his inability to achieve.

19．According to the passage, overachievers

A．are popular with their classmates B．hand in homework ahead of time

C．are much loved by their teachers D．look down on others for being slow

20．The word "embrace" in Paragraph 2 probably means "_       ".

A．understand B．explain C．doubt D．accept

21．What can we learn from the passage?

A．Teachers expect students to benefit from their extra work.

B．Students compete with each other to become overachievers.

C．Classmates may laugh at overachievers to hide their inability to achieve.

D．The writer has some pleasant experiences of being called an overachiever.

22．The writer probably agrees tahat

A．students shouldn't be encouraged to be overachievers

B．students without motivation will become overachievers

C．motivated students make better progress than overachievers

D．motivated students have something in common with overachievers

Could the students from less developed areas in central and western China get the same educational chances as those in big cities in the east? Could the children in poor rural (农村) areas develop as well as those in rich cities? Maybe the answers were “No” in the past. But now, China is trying to change the situation.

In order to help rural students grow taller and stronger, China’s Nutrition (营养) Improvement Program started in 2011. According to the program, a lot more money was spent improving students’ meals. More than 36 million students from 134,000 primary and junior high schools in poor rural areas have benefited from the program. They are provided with healthy food like eggs and milk from Monday to Friday at school. And the result of a survey shows that the students in those areas are much taller and stronger than before.

It is true that there were differences between less developed areas and developed areas in education before. Recently, The Guideline for Popularizing High School Education (2017-2020) has come out. According to the guideline, above 90% students from all over the country will go to high schools by 2020. What’s more, the schools in central and western areas will get more support to improve their education.

Students from rural and poor areas also get more chances to receive higher education. A special college program makes it possible for more students from those areas to go to key (重点的) colleges and universities. The number will be increased by 10% in 2017.

With the guideline and the programs, we can expect a fairer and more balanced (均衡的) education in the future.

23．The number of 134,000 in Paragraph 2 is the number of _______ in poor rural areas.

A．the key schools B．the poor students

C．the key colleges and universities D．the primary and junior high schools

24．The underlined word “benefited” in Paragraph 2 means _______ in Chinese.

A．逃离 B．获益 C．受害 D．赚钱

25．If we put the passage into three parts, which of the following is the best?

(=Para.(自然段) 1   =Para. 2  =Para. 3   =Para. 4  =Para. 5)

A．;; B．;; C．;; D．;;

26．After reading the passage, we can infer(推断) that ________.

A．Liu Xi, a student from Chongqing, can go to any high school if she wants to

B．Li Mei, a student from a western rural school, can get a bag of milk every day

C．Hu Jia, a 12-year-old rural student, will more easily receive high school education

D．Han Lei, a student from Beijing, will have few chances to go to key universities

According to a study by some organizations, more than half of the things in the world are made in China. And these things are all about people's everyday life.

In order to truly understand why so many things are made in China, you have to understand the history. China is one of the greatest countries with rich civilization (文明) on the earth for thousands of years. Chinese people have made a lot of things very smartly. Usually it would take Westerners and other foreigners 100 more years to find out how to make them. They have clever minds and work hard, so you can see why so many things are made in China.

If you study Goldman Sach’s report on the future, you will see that China will take charge of (控制）a quarter of the world's GDP in the near future. Although some big companies are moving to other countries from China, China is making more products with fine quality, as well as Japan, the USA and Europe. In 20 years or so, people will not look for a Ferrari, but a Chinese car that no one has heard of yet.

China isn't just making products. It's helping people in the world live better.

27．According to the study,         of the things in the world are made in China.

A．about 15% B．less than 25%

C．over 50% D．over 75%

28．What does the underlined word “They” refer to?

A．Westerners. B．The Chinese. C．Other foreigners. D．The Japanese.

29．The underlined word “quality” means “      ” in Chinese.

A．质量 B．名声 C．影响 D．背景

30．What makes China a great country in the world for thousands of years?

A．Its large area. B．Its large population.

C．Its fine products. D．Its rich civilization.

31．What can we learn from the third paragraph?

A．China has taken charge of a quarter of the world's GDP.

B．China is producing more products with fine quality.

C．More and more big companies are moving to China.

D．Ferrari cars will be found everywhere in China in the future.

The Plain of Jars(石缸平原)is a great man­made wonder(奇观)in Laos，a country in southeast Asia.It is made up of thousands of stone jars.More than 90 jar sites have been found there.Each site has from 1 to 400 stone jars.The jars come in different sizes from 1 to 3 meters tall.Scientists have long been perplexed by their original(最初的)use.

Not long ago，scientists found ancient things and burial practices at the Plain of Jars.“This will be the first major effort since the 1930s to try to understand the purpose of the jars and who created them.”Dougald O'Reilly from the Australian National University said.“The jars are empty now，but it is possible that they were once used to hold bodies.”

Only a few simple objects，such as a handful of glass beads(玻璃珠)，have been found at the burial sites.And scientists think they are from about 500 or 600 BC to 550 AD．

An Australia­Laos  research team spent a month collecting data(资料)at the site.O'Reilly said，“Though the stone jars remain a mystery，I hope a better understanding of the Plain of Jars will help have it listed as a World Heritage site(世界遗产保护区)．”

32．The Plain of Jars is in ________．

A．Asia B．Europe C．America D．Australia

33．What do we know about the jars?

A．They are of the same size.

B．They were used for holding water.

C．They are all made of stones.

D．All the sites have the same number of jars.

34．The underlined word “perplexed ”means “ ________ ” in Chinese.

A．无视 B．困惑 C．遗忘 D．玩弄

35．What can we learn from the passage?

A．The Plain of Jars is a natural wonder.

B．There are all kinds of things in the jars.

C．The mystery of the Plain of Jars hasn't been solved.

D．The Plain of Jars is a World Heritage site.

36．Where can we probably find the passage?

A．In a storybook. B．In a movie review.

C．In a dictionary. D．In a geography magazine.

参考答案：

1．B    2．A    3．C    4．B

5．A    6．C    7．D    8．B    9．A

10．B    11．C    12．B    13．D

14．B    15．A    16．C    17．A    18．D

19．B    20．D    21．C    22．D

23．D    24．B    25．C    26．C

27．C    28．B    29．A    30．D    31．B

32．A    33．C    34．B    35．C    36．D