Unit 2 Great people 主题阅读训练（含答案） 2024-2025学年牛津译林版九年级英语下册

牛津英语9B Unit 2 主题阅读训练
一、完形填空
先通读短文，掌握其大意， 然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。
The first experience of middle school was terrible for Jeff Kinney. 1 , the second time was golden.
Kinney is the writer and cartoonist behind the funny Diary of a Wimpy Kid (《小屁孩日记》) series. It tells the story of Greg Heffley, a middle school student. Greg gets a 2 from his mother. In it he records his everyday life at school, which is filled with 3 things and adventures.
The US writer published seven Wimpy Kid books 4 2007 and 2012, which have sold more than 115 million 5 worldwide. One 6 why kids love Kinney’s books is the main character, Greg Heffley. Greg is 7 but naughty. He has many interesting ideas. But he causes trouble all the time. The books don’t teach you 8 you should do. But they 9 you with funny jokes.
To write a book, Kinney first came up with 350 10 , and then developed them into a story. He also drew the cartoons 11 .
In fact, Kinney’s interest at university was cartoon drawing. “I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but 12 liked my work,” Kinney told Los Angeles Times. He took jobs doing newspapers, software and game production and design. And then in early 1998 he 13 the idea of a kid’s diary.
After years of refining (改善) characters and creating jokes, Kinney sold the manuscripts that became the Wimpy Kid series in 2006. “I made mistakes. I wasn’t that smart. I wasn’t that brave,” Kinney 14 his own middle school years. Kinney gives Greg these flaws (缺陷), he said, so children can 15 Greg’s mistakes.
1．A．Importantly B．Luckily C．Especially D．Accidentally
2．A．book B．pen C．diary D．camera
3．A．impossible B．important C．independent D．interesting
4．A．between B．from C．after D．in
5．A．stories B．copies C．characters D．cartoons
6．A．decision B．relation C．success D．reason
7．A．strict B．strong C．smart D．serious
8．A．what B．whether C．how D．that
9．A．promise B．leave C．inspire D．cheat
10．A．pictures B．jokes C．methods D．lessons
11．A．it B．itself C．himself D．themselves
12．A．nobody B．anybody C．somebody D．everybody
13．A．heard B．developed C．accepted D．borrowed
14．A．changed B．noticed C．recalled D．challenged
15．A．laugh at B．learn from C．deal with D．give up
二、阅读理解
66-year-old David G. Evans, from the UK, is a chemistry teacher in Beijing. He is famous in China for his fun chemical experiments (实验) online.
When he was young, Evans became interested in China and wanted to learn more about it. His dream of visiting the country came true in 1987, when he went to a chemistry meeting in Nanjing. Evans came to China once or twice a year before moving to Beijing in 1996 to work there as a teacher.
To show the wonders of chemistry to more people, Evans goes to different places in China. So far, he’s visited more than 300 cities across China, giving chemistry lessons and doing chemical experiments in schools, science museums and other places.
To reach out to more students, Evans started posting videos of chemical experiments online in 2018. “I hope I can help students see the beauty of chemistry, and that some of them may become scientists,” he said. Evans has over 9.9 million followers online. He’s posted more than 500 videos and got over 23 million “likes”. After seeing his experiments, many students find chemistry is exciting and show an interest in it.
For his contribution (贡献) to China, Evans got the Chinese Government Friendship Award in 2001, and the China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award in 2005.
16．What was the purpose of Evans’ first visit to China
A．To work as a teacher in Nanjing. B．To attend a chemistry meeting.
C．To look for a job in China. D．To know more about Chinese history.
17．When did Evans start to work in Beijing
A．Nearly 30 years ago. B．In 1987. C．In 1995. D．23 years ago.
18．Why does Evans go to different places in China
A．To make more friends. B．To become more famous.
C．To visit more places of interest. D．To let more people learn about chemistry.
19．What’s Paragraph 4 mainly about
A．Evans helped many students get good grades. B．Evans wanted to be a scientist.
C．Evans is an internet influencer. D．Evans gave English lessons online.
20．What can we learn from the passage
A．Evans stayed in China when he was a kid.
B．Evans goes back to the UK once or twice a year.
C．Evans hopes every child can become a scientist.
D．Evans passed his love for chemistry to many Chinese students.
Under the burning sun, an elderly man picked an ear of rice, checked it with an expert eye, and moved on. He worked from morning to night. No one could imagine that the day before, this farmer had received the Medal of the Republic. His name was Yuan Longping.
Yuan was born in Beijing in 1930. When he was young, he was sad to know many people in China suffered from hunger. After leaving college, Yuan spent nearly 20 years in solving this problem. In 1973, he succeeded in developing the hybrid rice.
Yuan deeply believed that “food is the most important thing in the world”. He had a dream of developing a more productive rice plant. However, it was easier said than done. Over 3,000 of his experiments failed. “Failure is very common in scientific research,” he once said. “Every time I fall down, I’ll get up and try again.” He never gave up exploring the possibility of developing the rice plant and finally his dream came true.
Longping Rice Museum was built in memory of Yuan Longping and it was opened to the public in 2019. It’s the world’s first rice museum. There are three exhibition halls in the museum. In the area called Golden Miracle, modern tools are used to present how rice grows. Besides, over 700 exhibits in the museum are displayed to show China’s farming culture in an all-around way.
Yuan passed away in 2021, but his dreams live on. Now Yuan’s rice is grown around China and in more than 60 other countries. His lifelong efforts have helped to feed 80 million more people a year. His example continues to encourage people to follow in his footsteps.
21．When did Yuan develop the hybrid rice
A．Soon after he suffered from hunger.
B．After he insisted on doing research for years.
C．As soon as he left college and started his job.
D．When he received the Medal of the Republic.
22．How does the writer show Yuan’s spirit in Paragraph 3
A．By using his words. B．By telling stories.
C．By comparing the facts. D．By listing numbers.
23．What can we know about Longping Rice Museum from the passage
A．It’s been open to the public since 2021.
B．People can learn how the rice grows in it.
C．People built it to show the whole life of Yuan.
D．It’s the first museum to introduce the farming culture.
24．What’s the main purpose of the passage
A．To teach people how to develop new rice plants.
B．To attract people to visit Longping Rice Museum.
C．To tell the differences of farming culture in the world.
D．To introduce a national hero in China-Yuan Longping.
Qian Xuesen was a great scientist. 25 He is also known as “the King of the Rocket.” Thanks to his research, China’s space technology has progressed in a rapid way.
Qian was born in Shanghai on December 11th, 1911. 26 After graduation, he worked in America for a few years. In the early 1950s, he heard that New China had been founded (建立), and he decided to give up the good working conditions in America. Although the American government tried to stop him from leaving, he succeeded in coming back to China in 1955.
27 Then it became the leading organization for China’s rocket and air travel. At that time, the conditions in China were too hard. 28 On April 24, 1970, China’s first man-made satellite (卫星), “Dongfanghong I” was successfully sent into the air.
A student of Qian Xuesen, Zhu Yilin, once said, “I learned professional knowledge and working spirit from Mr. Qian. 29 When New China needed scientists badly, he returned to help in the rocket industry.”
根据短文内容，将下面的选项还原到文中空白处，使短文内容完整、通顺，每个选项只能用一次，其中有一个选项是多余的。
A．I sensed his deep love for our country, too.
B．Who visited Qian Xuesen when he was in China
C．At the age of 24, he went to America to study.
D．But Qian and his team still faced the difficulties bravely.
E．He is known as “the Father of China’s Space Program.”
F．In 1956, Qian Xuesen suggested starting a special organization.
三、任务型阅读
“The 2026 Winter Olympics might be my last Olympics. Whatever the result will be, I have only on goal to be better than my earlier results, ” 34-year-old Olympic champion Xu Mengtao once said.
Xu was born in Liaoning Province in 1990. Her parents sold mutton skewers (羊肉串) and Xu often helped out during holidays. Xu learned gymnastics (体操) at the age of 4. And then she changed to freestyle skiing aerials (自由式滑雪空中技巧) at the age of 12, when she was considered too tall to continue gymnastics.
Xu has had four operations on her knees. When she took part in the 2022 Winter Olympics, there were steel pins (钢钉) in her knees. Unluckily, she failed to get a gold medal, although she tried her best. But failures and pains didn’t stop her. Xu finally realized her dream at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, by completing triple flips (三周空翻) on her final jump.
In her book, Xu writes down her true feelings about her life over the past years, her memories of heart—stopping international competitions, the number of medals she won, the low points she managed to overcome and her full preparations for each competition. “Plan each jump, review each problem and look for every possibility. The real situation is unpredictable, so I have to be fully prepared, ” Xu wrote in her book.
“I hope my personal experiences can encourage more people to go after their dreams,” Xu added. “Don’t stop trying. It’s hard to say when all your hard work will pay off, but they will when it matters most. ”
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
30．What’s Xu Mengtao’s goal in the 2026 Winter Olympics
31．Where was Xu Mengtao born
32．Why did Xu Mengtao change to freestyle skiing aerials at the age of 12
33．How did Xu Mengtao realize her dream at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
34．What lessons can we learn fromXu Mengtao
四、短文填空
阅读下面短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。
Thomas Edison is a world-famous inventor (发明家). Here’s a story a 35 him and his mother.
One day Edison came home with a letter. He said, “My teacher g 36 this letter to me and told me to only hand it to you.” After r 37 the letter, his mother looked at the floor in s 38 . “What does it say ” asked Edison. “Your son is t 39 talented. This school is too small for him and doesn’t have enough good teachers to train him. Please teach him y 40 ,” answered Edison’s mother. Edison was happy to hear that.
Many years later, Edison became one of the g 41 inventors in the world. One day w 42 he was looking through the old things, he found the letter from his teacher. The message in the letter w 43 “your son is mentally ill (有精神病). We cannot let him study in our school anymore.”
Edison was s 44 when he read it. Then he wrote in his diary, “Thomas Edison was a mentally ill child. His mother turned him into a talented inventor.”
There are many role models in the world. A good role model can bring us confidence, determination (决心) and a clear sense of direction. My role model 45 (be) Yuan Longping, a great agricultural (农业的) scientist.
Yuan was born in Beijing in 1930. He 46 (spend) his school days in Hunan, Chongqing Hubei and Jiangsu. In 1953, he 47 (send) to work at a school in Hunan. At that time, people in China didn’t have a lot of 48 (food) and many were dying from hunger. Yuan was very worried about this. He set his mind on creating a new kind of rice to save Chinese people from hunger.
One day, 49 Yuan was working in his field, he came across some special rice plants. As an agricultural teacher, he noticed that the plants had mutated (突变) and believed he could make use of 50 (they) to grow more rice.
Yuan was surprised and happy that he finally got a chance to make his dream come true. So he reproduced (繁育) the rice and tested it in different ways. It was not 51 (easily) to create a new kind of rice. It took Yuan many years of hard work. After much effort, he finally succeeded: he successfully created hybrid rice (杂交水稻), which has since saved billions of lives. He is 52 true hero. That’s why he is my role model. In my opinion, he deserves (值得) all the honors. In 2019, he was awarded the Medal of the Republic (共和国勋章), the 53 (high) honor in China. His name 54 (remember) by Chinese people forever.
五、选词填空
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文意思完整正确。（每个单词限用一次。每空限填一个单词。）
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Do you know Nobel Prize A Nobel Prize is considered one of the 55 international honors (荣誉) that a person can receive. As you know, the prizes were 56 by a Swede (瑞典人), Alfred Nobel. He was born in Stockholm, the capital (首都) of Sweden. Alfred Nobel was a great scientist. He made two important 57 , so he became very rich. Nobel was not happy because he was sick during 58 large part of life. When he died at the age of 63, he left a lot of money. The money is used to 59 people who make great achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine and literature (文学), and for world peace.
The 60 Nobel Prizes were given on December 10,1901, five years after Nobel’s death. Since then, many famous people from all over the world have 61 Nobel Prizes because of their achievements.
Each prize 62 three parts: a gold medal, a diploma (证书) and a large amount of money—about $40,000. Often a prize 63 given to just one person, but not always. Sometimes a prize is shared. It 64 be given to two or more people who have worked together. It is also sometimes true that a prize is not given at all if there is no great achievement.
《牛津英语9B Unit 2 主题阅读训练》参考答案
1．B 2．C 3．D 4．A 5．B 6．D 7．C 8．A 9．C 10．B 11．C 12．A 13．B 14．C 15．B
16．B 17．A 18．D 19．C 20．D
21．B 22．A 23．B 24．D
25．E 26．C 27．F 28．D 29．A
30．To be better than her earlier results.
31．In Liaoning Province.
32．Because she was considered too tall to continue gymnastics.
33．By completing triple flips on her final jump.
34．Don’t stop trying. It’s hard to say when all our hard work will pay off, but they will when it matters most.
35．(a)bout 36．(g)ave 37．(r)eading 38．(s)ilence 39．(t)ruly 40．(y)ourself 41．(g)reatest 42．(w)hen 43．(w)as 44．(s)urprised
45．is 46．spent 47．was sent 48．food 49．when 50．them 51．easy 52．a 53．highest 54．will be remembered
55．highest 56．started 57．inventions 58．his 59．encourage 60．first 61．won 62．includes 63．is 64．may