Unit 3 Teenage problems 阅读培优题2022-2023学年牛津译林版英语九年级上册(含答案)

9上U3阅读培优题
It was a sunny day.I had gone up and down the tower when，outside the door at the foot，a blind man came toward me.In a moment，he disappeared up the stairs.I looked at the sign that said" To the Tower，" and decided to____1__ him.
I caught up with him in the ticket office.There I was___2___to see the attendant selling him a ticket as if he were any other visitor.
Then,with the ticket in one hand and touching the wall with the___3___of the other，the blind man reached the stairs leading to the hallway.
That man can't see.What would he climb up the tower for？" I said to the attendant，expecting him to pay more attention to the poor blind man，but he didn't answer. "
Not the___4___ certainly， "I thought，feeling quite worried，I bought a ticket and hurried up the stairs. "Oh，my God! Perhaps he wants to___5___ from the tower." The man hadn't gone as far as I imagined.A third of the way up the tower I heard his steps.I slowed down and came after him at a little distance.He__6____ from time to time.
When he got to the balcony，I was many steps____7__.As I reached it，I saw him at the corer of the tower.
At last，after ten minutes，I got closer to him. "Excuse me，" I said as politely as I could，"but I am___8___to know why you came up."
He smiled."Coming up the___9___ ，you will notice how not just light but sun pours into the tower through the narrow windows here and there，so that you can feel the___10___the cool stairs suddenly become quite___11___ and how up here behind the wall there is shade，but you can find the__12____ as soon as going opposite a window.On the way，I took time to enjoy the fun.
There is no___13___ so good as this for feeling the difference between light and shade.It is not the first time I've come up."
The blind man seemed quite___14___just like a child who was lost in his favorite games.He told me the truth that blind men can also find the____15__ in life although they cannot enjoy the sights of the world.
save B.follow C.help D.visit
frightened B.amazed C.surprised D.glad
fingers B.thumbs C.body D.hand
view B.test C.prize D.competition
see B.jump C.hear D.relax
laughed B.moved C.shouted D.stopped
behind B.ahead C.around D.outside
sure B.curious C.happy D.serious
office B.balcony C.top D.stairs
way B.changes C.same D.air
smooth B.soft C.warm D.cold
sun B.shade C.wind D.wall
reason B.place C.time D.person
bored B.tired C.pleased D.patient
truth B.difficulties C.details D.beauty
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In modern society the competition is so enough, but team spirit can lead us to s____________1_______. Team spirit means the willingness of people to work t______________2_____and help each other as part of a team. With this spirit, people try hard to make their team the best of all. Everyone has e___________3________ team spirit one way or another, whether they were part of a team or saw a group of people cheer for their favourate player.
There are d_____________4______ kinds of team spirit. One kind is the connection between a team of people because their efforts and cooperation are n______________5_____ in reaching a particular goal. Another kind is when a group of people support a person or a team. Another is people’s natural love for and p______________6_____ in their country, when all the people of the nation cheer for their country in competitions.
Team spirit creates various good effects. It c______________7_____friendship and trust between people who may not get a______________8_____ well when they don’t have such team spirit. There may also be bad effects. Too great team spirit may c______________9_____fights or quarrels with other team members.
Some people don’t understand team spirit p____________10_______. They think team spirit means having to become a member of a team or a fan club. In fact, team spirit can be built anywhere---between friends, coworkers or e___________________between two people sitting next to each other. You don’t have to wear the team spirit clothes. Anyone can show team spirit just by showing support for the goal.
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There are some very good inventions which, for one reason or another, don’t become popular. These inventions should be better known, even though I think that some of them are crazy. Let’s have a look at some of these inventions and see if you agree that they should be more successful.
The Australians had a great idea to stop people from drinking and driving. The idea was that if a driver wanted to start the car, she or he would have to blow into a bag first. If there was too much alcohol (酒精) in their breath, the car wouldn’t start. It sounded like a great idea to me, but people said that they might need to drive the car in an emergency (紧急情况) even if they had drunk too much alcohol. Another idea I liked was an invention by a scientist who thought his children watched too much TV. He connected the TV to an exercise bike so that the electricity to power the TV was produced by the bike. If the children wanted to watch a lot of TV, they had to pedal (踩动) very hard. I found another invention on the Internet which encouraged good habits. Believe it or not, this invention was an ashtray (烟灰缸) which spoke to you when you lit a cigarette! The “voice” of the ashtray was started by the heat from the cigarette and reminded you how dangerous it is to smoke.
One of the strangest inventions I have come across is a bicycle which can cross rivers! The idea was that when you came to a river, you could inflate a huge plastic ball all around the bike. You would then get into the ball which would float on the river while you pedaled the bike inside the ball! Why not use a bridge instead A friend of mine at school once bought a strange pair of football shoes. On the bottom of the shoes there was a rotating pad of studs (转动钉垫). The idea was that you would change direction more quickly if the studs rotated with you. The problem was that every time you stopped you changed direction whether you wanted to or not! I think he wore those shoes twice! One thing I would like is a baseball cap with a built-in radio so you can listen to sport all day with your hands free. While we are on the subject of sport, the Americans invented a kind of robot for sports fans. If you were watching your team on TV on your own, you could press a button and the robot would do “high fives” with you! Fantastic! I wonder if you have any good ideas for inventions like these.
1. What’s the writer’s attitude towards the inventions mentioned in Paragraph 2
A. The writer regrets he knew nothing about the inventions.
B. he writer doubts if the inventions will be popular soon.
C. The writer thinks these inventions will do good to people.
D. The writer finds these inventions are the strangest of all.
2.What can we know from the passage
A. The father used his invention to stop children watching too much TV.
B. It was very bad for the drivers to blow into a bag before their driving.
C. The bike crossing rivers was considered one of the best inventions.
D. The invention of new shoes would make players run much faster.
3. The underlined word “inflate” in the third paragraph means ________.
A. check out B. blow up C. look into D. turn over
4.What’s the best title for the passage
A. Popular Inventions Today B. Technology and Invention
C. Inventions with a Difference D. The History of Invention
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Some students get so nervous before a test, they do poorly even if they know the material. Sian Beilock has studied these highly anxious test-takers.
Sian Beilock: “They start worrying about the consequences. They might even start worrying about whether this exam is going to prevent them from getting into the college they want. And when we worry, it actually uses up attention and memory resources.I talk about it as your cognitive horsepower that you could otherwise be using to focus on the exam.”
Professor Beilock and another researcher, Gerardo Ramirez, have developed a possible solution. Just before an exam, highly anxious test-takers spend ten minutes writing about their worries about the test.
Sian Beilock: “what we think happens is when students put it down on paper , they think about the worst that could happen and they reappraise the situation. They might realize it’s not as had as they might think it was before and, in essence(本质上), it prevents these thoughts from popping up when they’re actually taking a test.”
The researchers tested the idea on a group of twenty anxious college students. They gave them two short math tests. After the first one, they asked the students to either sit quietly or write about their feelings about the upcoming second test.
The researchers added to the pressure. They told the students that those who did well on the second test would get money. They also told them that their performance would affect other students as part of a team effort.
Professor Beilock says those who sat quietly scored an average of twelve percent worse on the second test. But the students who had written about their fears improved their performance by an average of five percent.
Next, the researchers used younger students in a biology class. They told them before final exams either to write about their feelings or to think about things unrelated to the test.
Prefessor Beilock says highly anxious students who did the writing got an average grade of B+, compared to a B- for those who did not.
Sian Beilock: “What we showed is that for students who are highly test-anxious, who’d done our writing intervention, all of a sudden there was no relationship between test anxiety and performance. Those students most likely to worry were performing just as well as their classmates who don’t normally get nervous in these testing situations.”
But what if students do not have a chance to write about their fears immediately before an exam or presentation Professor Beilock says students can try it themselves at home or in the library and still improve their performance.
1.In which paragraph does the author introduce the background of his study
A. In the last paragraph. B. In the second paragraph.
C. In the third paragraph. D. In the first paragraph.
2.According to scan Beilock, if you want to succeed in an exam, you should_______ .
A. focus your attention on the exam.
B. be as serious as you can about the exam.
C. sit quietly before the exam.
D. make a careful preparation for the exam.
3.The underlined word" it" in the last paragraph means .
A. looking for a chance B. preparing for the exam
C. writing about the feelings D. taking the exam
4.We can infer from the study that students who sit quietly before theexam .
A. are more likely to get better exam results
B. worry more about the exam in their mind
C. have a positive attitude towards exam results
D. believe that they will do well in the exam
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1.What may happen if students have the problem of test anxiety
A.Test anxiety can improve students’ performance to some degree
B.Students’ attention and memory resources run out when worried
C.Students may not be admitted into their favorite college if worried
D.Test anxiety is sure to cause students to fail the test
2.Which of the following if TRUE
A.In the first math test, students who sat quietly performed better
B.In the second math test, students who wrote about their feelings did worse
C.Some college students are highly anxious test-takers while others are not in the tests
D.The result in the math test agrees with that in the biology test
3.What does the underlined phrase “popping up” mean
A.Giving out B.Fading away
C.Becoming clearly D.Appearing suddenly
4.What is most probably Sian Beilock
A.A psychology professor B.A philosophy researcher
C.A politics professor D.A tutor
5.What is the main idea of the passage
A.It is a common practice for students being worried before a test
B.Being worried before tests does harm to students’ performance
C.Anxious students overcome test anxiety by writing down fears
D.It is important for students to overcome test anxiety
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The immune system is the body’s defender. It identifies, tracks down, and destroys troublemakers before they can hurt the body. Those troublemakers may be, for example, bacteria from a cut or splinter, a measles germ, a cold bug, or even a cancer cell. These invaders try to take over our tissues and feed off our bodies’ nutrients. If they succeed, we become sick or, sometimes, even die. It’s the job of our immune systems to destroy these invaders before they destroy us.
Say you picked up a flu virus last week. Perhaps it entered your body through a cut from a drinking glass, or from the air you breathe. Of course, you didn’t feel it, but the virus made its way into your bloodstream. As soon as it entered your body, it began to reproduce. Viruses have only one goal: to take over your cells. Once inside your body, viruses try to enter cells and disrupt their normal work. If left alone, these viruses would hurt so many cells that you would weaken, or worse, get a serious illness.
But this flu virus should not be so complacent as it seems to be. As it reproduces in your bloodstream, the virus is met by a certain kind of white blood cell, the lymphocytes. The lymphocytes are the foot soldiers that keep you alive.
The number of lymphocytes in your body is hard to imagine. Thousands of them could fit in the period at the end of this sentence. Your body holds about a trillion —that’s 1,000,000,000,000 of them, or about 3,000 in every drop of blood. Since you began reading this sentence, over 800,000 of them have been created and destroyed.
Some of these lymphocytes pass through a small walnut-sized organ called the thymus. The thymus is the base of the neck. Here, special hormones turn lymphocytes into fighting cells, called T cells. T cells have one terrific talent: They can tell the difference between friend and foe; what should be in our bodies and what shouldn’t. They do not affect the body ’s healthy cells. Yet they attack everything that is foreign to our bodies, such as germs, transplants, and even our own cells which have become abnormal, as in the case of cancer.
1.What is the function of our immune system
A. To take over our tissues and feed off our bodies’ nutrients.
B. To prevent bacteria or germs from entering the body.
C. To destroy the troublemakers in order that they might not hurt the body.
D. To fight against T cells.
2.What does the underlined word “lymphocytes” in paragraph 3 mean
A. Food soldiers. B. Flu virus.
C. White blood cells. D. Troublemakers.
3.The last sentence in paragraph 4 “since you began reading this sentence, over 800,000 of them have been created and destroyed” implies that ____.
A. this sentence contributes to the increase of the number of lymphocytes in your body
B. you would not realize that lymphocytes reproduce themselves rapidly but for this sentence
C. because you read this sentence, a large number of lymphocytes have been consumed
D. the number of lymphocytes in your body is extremely large
4.Which of the following questions best summaries the main idea of the whole passage
A. How does the immune system attack the flu virus
B. How does the immune system function in our body
C. How do the lymphocytes work in our body
D. What is the so-called immune system
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