Pan Jiachen is a 15-year-old girl from Beijin...

Pan Jiachen is a 15-year-old girl from Beijing. She is the only child of her family. She is happy and confident, but she feels lonely sometimes. "It's not fun, especially when I travel with my parents. How I wish I could have a brother or a sister! " she said.

It could be time for Pan to realize her dream. China has ended its long one-child policy and every couple can have two children now. But what will a kid's life be like if he or she grows up with a sibling(兄弟姐妹) ?

A sibling can stop children from having bad feelings such as loneliness and fear, according to an expert. "Siblings give children something that parents can't give," said the expert. A kid may not feel lonely because there is someone else to play with. They can also talk about different kinds of things and share secrets with each other.

But there are disadvantages too. You need to share things with your sibling, including attention from parents, toys, the bathroom and even the TV. There could be lots of competition, arguments and even fights. Children with siblings need to learn to compromise and control their feelings.

Even the birth order can make a difference. According to a recent research, the birth order decides how parents treat their children. It will then lead to different personalities in children.　 Parents are usually nervous and strict with their first child. So firstborns are often responsible and thirsty for success. When the couple has a second child, they are more relaxed. So the late-born children are usually funny and creative.

1.Which of the following is TRUE about Pan Jiachen?

A. She is 17 years old.

B. She comes from Nanjing.

C. She doesn't like travelling.

D. She wishes that she could have a brother or a sister.

2.The third paragraph mainly talks about 　　　　　　　　 　 .

A. China has started its two-child policy B. the advantages of having a sibling

C. the disadvantages of having a sibling D. one kid may feel lonely

3.What does the underlined word "compromise" mean in Chinese?

A. 争斗 B. 遵守 C. 妥协 D. 坚持

4.Which of the following is the disadvantage of having a brother or a sister?

A. Having a partner to play with.

B. Sharing secrets with each other.

C. Having arguments and even fights.

D. Talking about something with each other.

5.From the last paragraph we can know that 　　　　　　　　 .

A. parents are usually strict with their first child.

B. the birth order has nothing to do with children's personalities

C. the late-born children are often responsible and thirsty for success

D. the first children are usually funny and creative

九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析

Beibei is a 6-year-old girl from Beijing. She is a single child in a rich family. During a family trip to Shanghai，she made her parents feel ashamed（难为情的）. When taking the crowded subway，Beibei said to her mom，“Ask someone to offer me a seat. ”Her mom told her to sit on their bags，but she was angry and didn’t talk anymore.

Why did the girl behave like that? According to Zhang Yiyun，a Chinese EQ education expert（专家）from Taiwan，many single children are self-centred. They don’t have the skill to solve trouble. Self-centeredness is one of the problems caused by a low EQ.

EQ is the ability to know our own feelings and those of others，and also manage our emotions（情感）and relationships. Most people know that IQ is important，but EQ is probably more important in daily life. When facing an exam，EQ helps us to manage stress（压力）. When getting along with friends or parents，EQ helps us to communicate well.

EQ is shaped partly by genetics（遗传学）. “You can see some babies are quiet，while others have bad tempers，”Zhang Yiyun told Xinhua News Agency. EQ is also something you can learn for yourself. You can learn what different feelings might mean and how they relate to yourself and others.

If we learn in the right way，our EQ can get better as we get older. Children with a high EQ usually have greater success with making friends. They are also better able to manage conflicts（矛盾）with others. A high EQ is a combination（结合）of a few different skills，so we’d better learn these skills.

1.Why did Beibei get angry on the subway?

A.Because the subway was too crowded.

B.Because her mother didn’t get a seat for her.

C.Because sitting on the bags made her feel ashamed.

D.Because she didn't like the family trip.

2.People with a low EQ may 　　　 .

A.get on well with others B.pay more attention to others' feelings

C.seldom get angry in their daily life D.care more about themselves

3.According to the fourth and fifth paragraphs，we know that 　　　 .

A.people with a high EQ often get high marks in exams

B.genetics decides a person’s EQ

C.people can improve their EQ by learning

D.people with a high EQ often fight with each other

4.From the passage，we know that a high EQ can help us in many ways EXCEPT 　　　 .

A.being self-centered B.managing stress

C.communicating well with others D.making more friends

5.What’s the best title of the passage?

A.The Problem of Single Children B.The Importance of EQ

C.How to Improve Our EQ D.How to Communicate with Parents

九年级英语阅读单选简单题查看答案及解析

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Alice is my penfriend. She is a 16-year-old girl from the UK, but now she lives in China. She is a middle school student in Nanjing. She likes going to school, but there are some things she doesn’t like, such as PE. She enjoys playing sports. She thinks sports are interesting and exciting. But she doesn’t like doing physical exercise in PE classes. She feels that they are boring! Her favourite subject is Science. It seems that the amazing and useful Science attracts her. She thinks she is on the way to be a scientist. She wishes to invent things to make the world more and more beautiful.

In her free time, she often goes to the beach. She loves just sitting around and talking to friends there. She’s getting better at understanding boys, but she hates listening to hours of talk about football. “It’s not interesting at all!” she once said to me.

That is my penfriend Alice.

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九年级英语填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Kate Spotz is a 22-year-old girl from America. She wants to cross the Atlantic Ocean by boat. If she__ ___ , she’ll be the youngest and the first American to finish the 2500-mile trip.

Spotz began___ ____ when she was at university. She has swum all the way down the 325-mile Allegheny River and traveled by bike from Seattle to Washington.

Spotz knows that she______ see some unexpected(想不到的) things during the trip. It will be very______ if she meets very bad weather in the middle of the sea. _____ she believes that she can deal with all the difficulties.　 “I had never thought I could run 26 miles,” she said. “But once I ______ it, I realized that maybe I could do something even______.”

Spotz wants to collect______ for an organization called“ Blue Planet Run” by going on this trip. The organization offers free and safe drinking water to people who need it.

It’ll take her about three months to finish this______. Good luck to this______ girl and best wishes to her!

1.A. dreams .　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　 　 B. misses　　　　　　　　　　　　 　 C. succeeds

2.A. sailing　　　　　　　　　　 B. biking　　　　　　　　　　　　 　 C. swimming

3.A. must　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　 　 B. may　　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. should

4.A. dangerous　　　　　　　　 B. boring　　　　 　　　　　　　　 　 C. exciting

5.A. If　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. But　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　 C. So

6.A. saw　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. met　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　 C. finished

7.A. easier　　　　　　　　　　　 B. more difficult　　　　　　　　 　 C. more dangerous

8.A.food　　　　 　　　　　　　　 B. money　　　　　　　　　　　　 　 C. clothes

9.A.plan　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. lesson　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. trip

10.A. brave　　　　　　　　　　 B. modern　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. polite

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Alyssa Carson is a 14-year-old girl. She comes from Louisiana, the USA. Alyssa Carson wants to become the first person to visit Mars! As a space fan, she has taken part in the Space Camp in Alabama twelve times. Alyssa Carson is the fist person to take part in all three NASA（美国国家航 空航天局） Space Camps in the world. This 14-year-old girl has been training to be an astronaut for nine years and decided to become the first person to land on Mars. The Louisiana teenager speaks Spanish, French and Chinese.

Why does Alyssa want to visit Mars? “It’s a place that no one has been to before. I want to take that first step,” Alyssa said. She calls herself the Mars Generation. NASA believes that the little girl will make it. Her code name in NASA is “Blueberry” and she may be on a Mars mission(访问团) in

2033 if all goes well. Alyssa’s father thinks that if she does go on a mission on Mars, he may never see her again. But for Alyssa, it is something that she has dreamed about since she was five years old.

She told the BBC that she wants to encourage other children to achieve their dreams. She said, “I don’t want one failure on the way to stop me from going to Mars.”

1.Alyssa Carson comes from 　　　　　 according to the passage.

A. France　　 B. America　　 C. Russia　　 D. Mars

2.The passage says that Alyssa can speak 　　　　　 languages.

A. two　　 B. three　　 C. four　　 D. five

3.We learn from the passage that Alyssa’s dream is to 　　　　　 .

A. become the first person to visit Mars　　 B. join in the fourth NASA space camp

C. wish children to realize their dreams　　 D. take good care of her father at home

4.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Alyssa has been an astronaut for 9 years.

B. Mars is a place nobody has been to so far.

C. Alyssa’s father has not seen her for long.

D. Alyssa may be on a Mars mission at present.

5.The best title of the passage may be “　　　　　 ” .

A. A Visit to Mars　　 B. The Space Camp　　 C. The First Step　　 D. A Girl’s Dream

九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析

Katherine Com male is an 11-year-old girl from Pennsylvania. At the age of five she began raising money to buy nets for children in Africa to help stop the spread of malaria(疟疾).

When she was five, Katherine learnt about malaria in Africa. She learnt that every 30 seconds a child died from this disease. She, also learnt that people wouldn’t get that disease if they had enough bed nets. “I was really sad to learn that a child died every half a minute because of malaria.” Says Katherine, “I wanted to send nets right away, so that’s what I did.”

Five-year-old Katherine made presentations at churches and schools. She told students and others how important bed nets were for Africans. After people heard the presentations, many of them donated money. Katherine sent the money to NBN. NBN is an organization that sends bed nets to Africa.

Besides, every holiday Katherine makes something called “ net gift certificate” with the help of her friends and brothers. On each l0-dollar certificate there is a message. It explains that a bed net would be sent to Africa. When more certificate orders come, Katherine gets help from students in her school.

Katherine has helped to raise $200,000 for NBN. “It makes me proud to help African children. I won’t stop working until everyone in Africa has a bed net.” says Katherine.

1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A.When Katherine was six, she began helping children in Africa.

B.Katherine learnt that two children died from malaria one minute.

C.Katherine did a lot and helped to raise $ 20,000 for NBN.

D.Katherine’s parents helped her make “bed net gift certificate”.

2.In Paragraph 4, “It” refers to “    　　　 ”.

A. a 10-dollar note     B. a gift certificate

C. an organization 　     D. a message

3.From the passage we know Katherine did the following EXCEPT    _______.

A.raising a great deal of money for NBN

B.giving presentations at churches and schools

C.explaining the importance of nets for Africans

D.ordering    people to learn to use the nets well

4.It can be inferred from the passage that 　　　　　 .

A.Katherine’s work is very helpful and meaningful

B.the spread of malaria in Africa will be more serious

C.every child in Africa gets a net with Katherine’s help

D.Katherine has received much money from NBN

九年级英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

Li Na is a 15—year—old schoolgirl. She wants a penfriend. The penfriend should be a girl around her age who is good at English and loves watching movies and cartoons. So she looks in “penfriends” magazine, and finds a lot of people in the magazine.

1. What’s Doruk’s favourite subject?

A. English.     B. Japanese.        C. Maths.       D. Music.

2. Who looks for a penfriend in "penfriends" magazine?

A. Li Na.       B. Pauline .        C. Vicky .      D. Ashley.

3.Where does Ashley come from?

A. Greece.      B. The USA.     C. Turkey.      D. UK.

九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

下面是对英国十五岁的女孩的一个调查结果，请仔细阅读，然后根据短文后面的任务要求作答。

The following is from a survey of 15-year-old girls in Britain. Girls of this age have different lives thsese  days because they have changed their lifestyles. Jane Kelly from  Birminham talked about survey.

任务：英国布莱顿市布莱顿中学的学生心理咨询中心准备将该调查结果告知学校的校长，为使调查结果一目了然，请你帮助该中心把调查结果设计成表格的形式，表达上述内容。现在表格已设计好，请你在空白处填上适当的词，每空不得超过2 个单词。

1._____________________ of 15-year-old girls in Britain

九年级英语其他题中等难度题查看答案及解析

Lamu was a 12-year-old Tibetan girl. She wanted to go to Beijing to watch the 2008 Olympics. Only one month ago, Lamu still thought it would be difficult.

In the past Tibet had no railroad (铁路). If Lamu took a bus, it would take her a long time to reach Beijing. And a plane ticket would cost lots of money.

However, things changed for Lamu. She was able to buy a ticket to the world’s highest railroad. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway had been completed! The 1,142-kilometer railroad runs on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau (高原). Lamu could reach Beijing by train in 48 hours!

About 550 kilometers of the railroad are constructed on the frozen earth (冻土). When the frozen earth warms in summer, it can move the track. But Chinese scientists have built a special structure to solve the problem. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway has been designed with the wild animals in the designers’ minds. It also has special underpasses (地下通道) for animals like Tibetan antelopes (藏羚羊) to go through.

“The new railroad greatly helps Tibet’s tourism,”said Liu Yueqin, an expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社科院).

As more tourists take trains to Tibet, there are more money for Tibetans. With the money, more kids can go to school.

The railroad also makes things less expensive in Tibet. Now one can buy a TV set for about 1,500 yuan. It used to be much higher than that price. When there was no railroad, it had been difficult to send things in and out of Tibet. With the new railroad, shopping can be more convenient (方便的) and faster.

1.The special underpasses are _____ to go through.

A. only for Tibet’s antelopes

B. for Tibet’s tourism

C. for animals

D. for Tibetans

2.Which of the following about the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is TRUE?

A. It is not the highest railroad in the world.

B. It’s the longest railroad in the world.

C. Scientists have no way to solve the problem of the frozen earth.

D. Wild animals have special underpasses to go through.

3.After the new railroad was completed _____.

A. everyone could buy a cheaper TV set

B. Tibetans can do business in and out of Tibet and develop their tourism

C. more and more people could fly to Tibet as soon as possible

D. more and more animals would be killed by people

4. Before the railroad was finished, _____.

A. all Tibetan children could go to school

B. the transportation in Tibet was convenient and fast, too

C. it was hard for Tibetans to buy and sell things in and out of Tibet

D. the Tibetans had never walked out of Tibet

5.The best title (标题) of the passage is “_____”.

A. Something about a 12-year-old Tibetan Girl

B. Reaching Beijing from Tibet by Train in Forty-eight Hours

C. High-tech (高科技) Brings the Tibetans Happiness

D. The Railway Puts Tibet Closer

九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Anne Zhang is a 21-year-old girl from Hangzhou, China. Now she studies in Britain. One day, when she was taking a train from London to Oxford, she heard loud noises on the train.

Before, the train had been very quiet. Some people were resting while others were reading books or listening to music. Suddenly, a group of Chinese people laughed loudly as they played a game of cards.

“ I would usually be very happy to meet people from my own country. But at that moment, I wanted the ground to open up and swallow ( 吞没 ) me.” Zhang said.

As it becomes easier for Chinese people to get visas( 签证) to foreign countries, more and more of them are traveling abroad. However, their bad manners have given them a bad reputation (名声).

A recent U.S. survey of 5,600 people five countries showed that Chinese people are the second worst tourists. The worst are American tourists.

Chinese always talk loudly in places like cafes and museums. They also spit (吐痰 ) and litter whenever they want and jump queues. Some Chinese tourists also like to write or draw pictures on famous buildings. In Singapore, Chinese tourists are fined( 罚款) because they were smoking in Non-smoking areas.

Some people may say that they can do everything that they want because they spend money in the country. In fact, this is not true. Besides enjoying ourselves, we should respect local customs and take care of the environment.

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