Unit 4 第2课时 Reading 课时训练 2025-2026学年译林版(2012)英语九年级下册

Unit 4 第2课时Reading课时训练

一、课前预习

I.短语翻译

1. 由于人口的快速增长________________  2. 火星上的重力____________________

3. 在火星上创造一个更好的世界________  4. 发展能够种在火星上的植物_________

5. 到2100年________________________   6. 在某些方面_______________________

7. 大约只有地球重力的八分之三________   8. 与地球上的生活作比较_____________

9.  住在带有宽敞舒适房间的房子里________10. 以光的速度______________________

11. 变得越来越拥挤_________________  12. 有更多休闲的时间________________

13. 火星之旅________________________  14. 运载大量乘客____________________

15. 飘进太空________________________  16. 做他们大部分的工作______________

17. 在网络学校学习__________________  18. 一台连接着星际网络的电脑________

19. 到目前为止______________________ 20. 我们自己的星球________________

二、基础训练

II.词汇

A.根据所给的汉语意思，用合适的单词填空。

1. People used to think that the Sun had nine_________ (行星) around it.

2. The number of Chinese going abroad on holiday is on the_________ (增长).

3. Andy is making_________ (快速的) progress in learning English.

4. It was 1:00 am and most_________ (旅客) on the train were sleeping.

5. Fishes in the lake would die out if it was far too_________ (被污染的).

B.用所给单词的适当形式填空。

6. Sleeping on a hard bed may be_________ (comfortable). But it is good for teenagers.

7. Western food is far less_________ (taste) than traditional Chinese food, I think.

8. This type of mobile phone is_________ (special) designed for the elderly.

9. The center of the city is too noisy and_________ (crowd). I prefer to live in a town.

10. It sounds_________ (challenge) to build a spacecraft that can travel at the speed of light.

III.单项选择

1. There are __________teachers in our school, ______________of them are women teachers.

A. two hundreds; three fourth   B. two hundred; three fourths

C. two hundred; three forths   D. two hundred of; three fourths

2. ________ with life in the city, life in the countryside is much slower and more peaceful.

A. To compare  B. Comparing  C. Compared  D. Compare

3. Computers play such an important role in our daily life. I can’t________ what life without them will be like.

A. affect     B. imagine       C. wonder      D. doubt

4. Stephen Hawking once said that man could make a spacecraft that could travel________ a speed of nearly 300,000 kilometres a second.

A. with      B. on      C. at            D. for

5. It _______ about eight minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth.

A. takes     B. spends     C. costs     D. pays

IV.根据所给汉语完成下列句子，每空词数不限

1. 这个城市要求我们在市内开车时速不要超过三十公里。

We are requested to drive ____________________________ no more than thirty kilometres per hour in the city.

2. 这个男孩在某些方面变得比以前好多了。

  The boy is becoming ________________________________.

3. 这台电脑与国际电脑网络连接在一起。

  The computer _________________________ an international network.

4. 为了使他们自己更重，他们得穿特制的靴子。

  They have to wear ____________________________.

5. 他年纪太大，无法完成这项工作。

  He is __________________________ the work.

6. 未来的生活可能就是这样的。

  Such is ___________________________ in the future.

7. 我们的城市污染变得越来越严重。

  Our city is becoming _________________________.

8. 这个苹果的七分之五已经变坏了。

  ____________________________ gone bad already.

9. 为了防止自己飘移到太空，宇航员们必须穿着特殊的靴子。

___________________________, astronauts must wear special boots.

10. 我希望成为第一个在火星上生活的人。

I hope to become________________________ Mars.

11. 到2100，我们会生活在火星上吗？

 Will we live_________________________________?

12. 背诵大量的英语单词很重要。

 It’s important to recite __________________________ English words.

13. 他的工作是培育植物。

 His work is______________________________.

14. 不要把我和他相比。

 Don’t ___________________________________.

15. 我们将在网上考试。

 We’ll__________________________________.

三、能力提升

V.完形填空

Are we alone in the universe? Or is there__1__ on Mars?

Ever since people first__2__ up into the night sky, there has been a question that has bothered us all. From the smallest__3__ to the world's greatest astronomers, all have__4__， “Are we alone in the universe？”

The question comes to me strongest at__5__， looking up at the stars and looking at all those little__6__  of light and wondering, “This is a galaxy(星系) full of life, or is this it？”

It's the question that societies often have been asking__7__ the ages. We really just want to know how we got here? Why do we exist? Are we the only people in the universe? Are we the__8__ signs of life?

This__9__ for life elsewhere in the universe is perhaps the greatest scientific question of all. But so far most efforts have__10__ on just one planet.

Searching for life is a difficult job. We'd like to be__11__ to travel to all these worlds far