Unit 4 高分重点练阅读理解10篇 2026-2027学年人教版九年级英语上册

Unit4高分重点练阅读理解10篇 人教版（2026）九年级上册　Unit 4 Our Memory　基础 5 篇 + 提升 5 篇 基础篇（5 篇） 第 1 篇　One Minute to Remember Last Tuesday Miss Chen gave our class a memory test. She put twelve small things on a table: a nut, a key, a card, a notebook, a small dolphin, a grape, a pen, a box, a piece of bread, a photo, a chain and a ticket. “You have one minute,” she said. “Then I will cover everything, and you must write down what you can remember.” I looked at the table and tried to keep every thing in my brain. When the minute was over, I wrote down nine things. My deskmate Li Wei wrote down eleven. The best student in our class, Wang Fang, wrote down all twelve. Miss Chen asked Wang Fang how she did it. Wang Fang said that she did not look at the things one by one. She made up a short story in her mind: “A key opened a box, and inside the box there was a card with a photo on it. Beside the photo, a dolphin was eating a nut.” “It takes only ten seconds,” she said. “But it works.” Miss Chen smiled and told us that this way of remembering has an old name. People have used it for more than two thousand years. She said that we could use it for new words, too. Then she taught us a word: technique. That evening I tried the story method with ten English words. I put them in a funny story about my family. The next morning, I could still remember eight of them - more than I used to remember after a whole hour of reading. （　　）1. What were the students asked to do in the memory test? A. To remember the things on the table and write them down.　　B. To write a story about twelve small things.　　C. To put twelve things in the right order on the table.　　D. To cover the table with a piece of cloth. （　　）2. How many things did Li Wei remember? A. Eight.　　B. Nine.　　C. Eleven.　　D. Twelve. （　　）3. What does the underlined phrase “this way of remembering” refer to? A. Looking at the things again and again.　　B. Making up a short story with the things in it.　　C. Writing each thing down as soon as possible.　　D. Asking the teacher for help every minute. （　　）4. What can we learn about the way Wang Fang used? A. It was invented by Miss Chen last Tuesday.　　B. It only works with twelve things on a table.　　C. It takes at least one hour to prepare.　　D. It is an old method and can also be used for English words. （　　）5. What happened when the writer tried the story method that evening? A. He forgot all the ten words in the story.　　B. He found the story method too slow to use.　　C. He remembered more words the next morning than before.　　D. He asked Li Wei to write the story for him. 【生词注释】cover 盖住；method 方法；ticket 票 第 2 篇　My Grandmother Recipe Book My grandmother left us a small notebook. Its cover is brown, and there are food marks on almost every page. Inside are more than sixty recipes: soup, bread, cakes and the orange drink I loved when I was five. Last winter my mother and I decided to cook the soup together. My mother said that she had never made it by herself before. We put the notebook on the table and read the first line: “Wash the vegetables, but do not cut them too small.” Everything went well until we came to a page with the words “a little of the yellow thing”. We stopped and laughed. I asked my mother what “the yellow thing” was. She paused, then answered that it might be ginger. So we tried a small piece of ginger, and the soup tasted right. My mother was so happy that she called my uncle at once. He said that he remembered the same words. My uncle says the old handwriting gives him a clear image of my grandmother, and last month my teacher asked us to write a passage about a family object. I chose this notebook, and my uncle and I often discuss which page is the oldest. I also want to organize all the recipes into a small book, so that my grandchildren can read them one day. Now we are writing a new page for every recipe. Where the old words are not clear, we add a small picture. Last Sunday my cousin helped us, and she drew a funny ginger man. My mother ticks the pages we have already tried. I have learned why my grandmother always wrote things down. When she was cooking, she did not want to keep every step in her memory; she wanted to leave them for us. A recipe book is not only about food. It is a way of talking with someone who is no longer at the table. （　　）1. What did the writer and the mother decide to do last winter? A. To write a new recipe book for the family.　　B. To buy an orange drink for the cousin.　　C. To cook the soup from the grandmother notebook together.　　D. To visit the uncle and make some bread. （　　）2. Why did they stop when they read the page? A. Because the page was torn and dirty.　　B. Because one of the words was not clear to them.　　C. Because they could not find any ginger.　　D. Because the soup was already ready. （　　）3. What does “the yellow thing” probably refer to? A. An orange.　　B. Ginger.　　C. A piece of bread.　　D. A yellow notebook. （　　）4. What do they do when the old words are not clear? A. They add a small picture on a new page.　　B. They ask the uncle to write the recipe again.　　C. They throw the old page away.　　D. They cook the dish without any of it. （　　）5. What does the writer now understand about the notebook? A. It is only a book about cooking soup.　　B. It was written by the writer mother.　　C. It has more than sixty pictures in it.　　D. It is a way of talking with the grandmother. 【生词注释】recipe 食谱；ginger 姜；cousin 堂/表兄弟姐妹 第 3 篇　The Museum of Old Toys There is a small museum in our town. It is not a museum of paintings or old machines. It keeps toys: wooden cars, cloth dolls, tin animals and paper kites. Most of them are more than fifty years old. The museum was opened by Mr Han, a retired teacher. He told us that he started it after he found a box of toys in his own house. “I opened the box, and suddenly I was nine years old again,” he said. “I could smell the classroom and hear the bell.” Mr Han uses a simple technique: hold a toy and let it speak. He says an old toy can boost a memory, and that the effect is much stronger than a lecture. He also draws a graph on the wall to show how visitors react to each toy. Visitors can touch the toys. That is unusual for a museum, but Mr Han says that touching helps people remember. When an old man picks up a tin car, he often begins to talk about his brothers, his street and the games he played. There is a wall for visitors notes in the corner. People write what the toys bring back to them. One note says, “I remembered my father whistle.” Another says, “I forgot I had a sister like that.” Mr Han tells every visitor the same thing: “Old things are not just old things. They are doors.” He hopes that young people will learn what their grandparents lives were like. Why do toys work so well? Mr Han has his own answer. “A toy is small enough to hold in one hand,” he says, “and a memory you can hold comes back faster than one you can only hear about.” Last month our class visited the museum. I chose a wooden horse and held it for a minute. I did not remember anything at first. Then I thought of the horse my grandmother kept on her window sill, and I smiled. On the way home, I asked my mother whether we still had it. She said we did, and that it was in the box under my bed. （　　）1. What does the museum keep? A. Paintings and old machines.　　B. Boxes, bells and classroom desks.　　C. Notes written by visitors.　　D. Toys, such as wooden cars and cloth dolls. （　　）2. Why was the museum unusual? A. Because visitors are allowed to touch the toys.　　B. Because it is free for old people.　　C. Because it has more than fifty rooms.　　D. Because it was opened by a student. （　　）3. What does the underlined sentence “They are doors.” mean? A. Old things can open the way back to our memories.　　B. Old toys should be kept behind closed doors.　　C. The museum has many doors for visitors.　　D. People must close the door when they leave. （　　）4. What do visitors do on the wall in the corner? A. They draw pictures of their brothers and sisters.　　B. They write down what the toys remind them of.　　C. They put their names and telephone numbers.　　D. They leave the toys they no longer want. （　　）5. What happened to the writer at the museum? A. He forgot everything about his grandmother.　　B. He bought a wooden horse for his class.　　C. He wrote the longest note on the wall.　　D. A wooden horse made him think of his grandmother. 【生词注释】wooden 木制的；tin 锡制的；whistle 口哨；吹口哨 第 4 篇　Three Lines a Day My sister gave me a small notebook on my birthday. It is not for homework. She said I should write three lines in it every night, and that three lines are enough. At first I did not understand why three lines could be useful. I used to think a diary must be long, with beautiful sentences. But my sister said that the problem with a long diary is that you stop writing it after a week. So I began with three lines: what I did, what I felt and one thing I do not want to forget. On Monday I wrote about a basketball game. On Tuesday I wrote about a word our English teacher taught us. On Friday I wrote: “Li Wei gave me half of his bread when I forgot my money.” After two months, I read the first pages again. I was surprised. Many things that I thought I would never forget had gone from my memory completely. But they were still there in the notebook. My sister says that three lines are like an outline of a day, and that reading them again is an effective way to recall a week. Sometimes I read my old passages and find that I have grown a little. My sister says that writing is like putting your day in a safe place. You do not need to carry everything in your head. When you want, you can open the safe and take it out. Our teacher read one of my pages in class last week. She said that a diary is not a test, and that nobody will give you marks for it. That is why I can write about small, ordinary things: a lost pencil, a strange dream, a joke I heard on the bus. I have also learned how useful it is to write before I sleep. A few minutes with my notebook helps me put the day in order, and I go to bed with a quiet mind. （　　）1. What did the sister tell the writer about the diary? A. Three lines a night are enough.　　B. A diary must be long and beautiful.　　C. It is better to write once a week.　　D. Only students in Grade Nine should keep one. （　　）2. Why did the writer stop writing long diaries before? A. Because his teacher told him to stop.　　B. Because he could not keep it up for long.　　C. Because he had no pen at home.　　D. Because his sister took his notebook. （　　）3. What did the writer find after two months? A. He had written more than two hundred pages.　　B. Many forgotten things were still in the notebook.　　C. He had stopped writing after the first week.　　D. His sister had read all of his pages. （　　）4. What does the underlined phrase suggest about writing? A. It makes you carry more things in your head.　　B. It is a safe place that others cannot enter.　　C. It is only useful for important days.　　D. It keeps your days somewhere you can find them again. （　　）5. Why does the writer write before going to sleep? A. It helps him finish his homework faster.　　B. It helps him remember English words.　　C. It helps him put the day in order and sleep well.　　D. It helps him write longer sentences. 【生词注释】diary 日记；safe 保险箱；completely 完全地 第 5 篇　Notes on the Fridge Our kitchen wall holds a small white board. We all call it the family board. Anyone in my family can write on it, and anyone can read it. On Monday morning it usually says: “Buy milk.” On Wednesday it says: “Music lesson at 5:30.” On Friday it says: “Grandpa comes for dinner.” My mother says she is tired of carrying every plan in her head; her work already fills it. My father says it works like a notebook that the whole family shares, and that without it we would be likely to forget half of our plans. The number of forgotten things has increased every year, so now I tick each line after I finish it. I did not like the board at first. I thought it was a silly idea for old people. But one day I forgot my English speech, and my father pointed at the board: “Speech, Thursday, 8:00.” I felt very lucky and a little ashamed. Last month something interesting happened. My grandfather came to stay with us for two weeks. He could not remember what day it was, so my mother wrote the date on the board every morning. One evening he took the pen and wrote, “Thank you, everyone.” We did not clean that line for three weeks. Nobody said anything, but we all knew why: we wanted to remember how he felt that evening. My mother says the board is like a small servant. It never gets tired, and it never says that a thing is too small to remember. Now I write on the board, too. I write things like “Read the memory passage again” or “Ask Miss Chen about the technique”. The board is only one metre wide, but it carries a lot: our plans, our worries and our love. （　　）1. What is the family board used for? A. It is only for the mother to write shopping lists.　　B. It shows the weather and the date every morning.　　C. It is a place to put the family photos.　　D. Family members write and read messages on it. （　　）2. What did the writer think of the board at first? A. He thought it was the best idea in the house.　　B. He thought it was too small for the family.　　C. He thought it was a silly idea for old people.　　D. He thought it should be put in the living room. （　　）3. What does the underlined part suggest about the mother? A. She is busy and needs help to remember things.　　B. She does not like doing any housework.　　C. She cannot read or write very well.　　D. She wants her children to work at home. （　　）4. Why did the family keep the grandfather line for three weeks? A. Because they had no time to clean the board.　　B. Because the pen was too hard to clean off.　　C. Because they wanted to remember his feeling that evening.　　D. Because the grandfather asked them to keep it. （　　）5. What does the writer think of the board now? A. It is small but carries much of the family life.　　B. It is only useful for his English study.　　C. It is a silly idea that should be given up.　　D. It makes the kitchen look untidy and old. 【生词注释】fridge 冰箱；ashamed 羞愧的；speech 演讲 提升篇（5 篇） 第 6 篇　The Girl Who Won the Memory Game When Zhang Yu was twelve, she could not remember the names of her new classmates after two weeks. Today, at seventeen, she can remember a list of three hundred words after reading it once. Last month she won a memory competition in our city. I asked her how she had changed. She said that nothing special had happened to her brain. “I just learned a technique, and then I practised it every day,” she said. Her technique is called the memory palace. She imagines a familiar building, such as her old primary school. Then she puts each word she wants to remember in a different place: the first word at the gate, the second on the stairs, the third in the classroom. When she needs the list again, she simply walks through the building in her mind. “It sounds strange, but it works,” she said. “The brain remembers places much better than words.” Zhang Yu practises for about thirty minutes every evening. She told me that the hardest part is not the technique itself. “The hardest part is being patient,” she said. “On the first day, I could only remember twenty words, and I felt very anxious. But after a month, I could remember eighty.” Her view is that anyone can boost a memory with training, and that the effect grows little by little. Her teacher, Mr Luo, says that such competitions are not only for fun. He believes that students who train their memory often become more confident in other subjects, because they know that a skill can be learned. Zhang Yu has one piece of advice for younger students. “Do not wait until the night before an exam,” she said. “Memory is built little by little, like a wall. Every brick takes its time.” （　　）1. What could Zhang Yu NOT do when she was twelve? A. Remember her new classmates names after two weeks.　　B. Walk through her old primary school.　　C. Read a list of three hundred words.　　D. Take part in a city competition. （　　）2. Which is the correct order of the memory palace method? A. Put words in a building, choose the building, write the words down.　　B. Choose a familiar building, put words in different places, walk through it in the mind.　　C. Write the words, walk through the building, choose the places.　　D. Walk through the building, forget the list, choose a new house. （　　）3. What does Zhang Yu think is the hardest part? A. Learning the name of the technique.　　B. Finding a familiar building to use.　　C. Remembering three hundred words at one time.　　D. Being patient with slow progress. （　　）4. Why does Mr Luo think memory training is useful for other subjects? A. It shows students that a skill can be learned.　　B. It helps students finish exams faster.　　C. It is required in all city competitions.　　D. It makes teachers more confident in class. （　　）5. What does the underlined sentence mainly tell us? A. Words are the best things for the brain to keep.　　B. The brain cannot remember any place at all.　　C. A building is better than a wall for memory.　　D. Places are easier for the brain to keep than words. 【生词注释】competition 比赛；palace 宫殿；patient 有耐心的；brick 砖 第 7 篇　A Musician Without Memory Clive Wearing is a British musician. In 1985, a serious illness damaged a small part of his brain. After that, he could not remember anything for more than a few seconds. When a doctor walked out of his room and came back a minute later, Mr Wearing greeted him like a stranger. He could not remember what he had said or eaten. He wrote in his diary again and again that he had just woken up, because every moment felt like a new beginning. But something surprising remained. Mr Wearing could still play the piano beautifully. He could still conduct a choir and follow the music of pieces he had learned years before. His fingers knew things that his mind could not tell. Why does this happen? Scientists have found that our memory is not one thing. Different kinds of information are kept in different parts of the brain. When we learn to ride a bike or play a piece of music, the memory is stored in a way that does not need words. This is why people call it memory without thinking. Mr Wearing's case has taught doctors a lot about what memory really is. It is not simply a box of facts and dates. It is also the ground under our skills, our habits and the small movements of our hands. Doctors keep an account of his case and have divided it into several parts, and the effect of this case has increased our understanding of the brain. His wife visits him almost every day. Each time, he is happy to see her as if they had met for the first time, and each time he tells her that he loves her. Perhaps that is the most important thing he has not forgotten. （　　）1. What happened to Clive Wearing in 1985? A. He lost his job as a musician.　　B. He stopped writing his diary.　　C. An illness damaged part of his brain.　　D. He moved to another country. （　　）2. What remained after his illness? A. He could remember everything for a year.　　B. He could write long letters without stopping.　　C. He could still play the piano and follow music.　　D. He could still remember his doctors names. （　　）3. What does the underlined sentence suggest? A. He could still play music although he could not explain how.　　B. His hands were ill and could not move well.　　C. His fingers were more important than his mind.　　D. He could tell people what he played, but not play it. （　　）4. Why do scientists study this case? A. It proves that music is the best way to learn.　　B. It shows that memory can never be damaged.　　C. It helps them cure all memory problems quickly.　　D. It helps them understand that memory is not one single thing. （　　）5. What is the last paragraph mainly about? A. Wives are the best teachers for sick people.　　B. People with memory problems cannot love others.　　C. Something deeper than facts may stay with a person.　　D. Doctors should visit patients every day. 【生词注释】musician 音乐家；damage 损害；choir 合唱团；case 病例；案例 第 8 篇　Memory Tricks from Long Ago Long before books and computers, people had to carry important knowledge in their heads. A storyteller might remember thousands of lines of poetry. A doctor might remember hundreds of plants and their uses. How did they do it? In ancient Greece and Rome, students were taught a method we now call the memory palace. They walked through a familiar building in their minds and put each idea in a place. To recall the ideas, they walked the same way again. Roman teachers wrote down another trick: sleeping on it. They believed that students should review difficult material in the evening and again in the morning, and that the night would help the memory settle. Modern research has found that these old ideas were not silly at all. Scientists now know that we remember pictures and places better than long lists of words. They have also found that sleep really does help the brain organize what we learned during the day. What can students today learn from all this? First, do not try to remember thirty new words in one evening; divide them into three small groups. Second, make a picture or a story instead of repeating the words silently. Third, review in the evening, and check again in the morning. A history teacher in our school told us that some of these tricks appear in old books from China as well. Students in ancient China read aloud, wrote characters again and again, and tested each other in small groups. The tools were different, but the ideas were surprisingly close. In a word, the old advice is still useful today: study the passage aloud, and tick the words you still cannot recall. Nobody knows how many of the old methods were really used in every school. But when a modern student finds that a two-thousand-year-old trick works in an English class, it is hard not to smile. （　　）1. Why did people in the past need a good memory? A. They were not allowed to read any books.　　B. They wanted to win memory competitions.　　C. They had more free time than modern students.　　D. They had to keep important knowledge in their heads without books. （　　）2. What does the underlined phrase mean in the passage? A. Reviewing something in the evening and again in the morning.　　B. Going to bed early without doing any review.　　C. Sleeping while the teacher is talking.　　D. Thinking about a hard problem for a whole day. （　　）3. What have scientists found about the old methods? A. They were all useless tricks for children.　　B. Some of them match what we now know about the brain.　　C. They work only for doctors and storytellers.　　D. They are too old to be used in modern schools. （　　）4. Which advice is NOT given in the passage? A. Divide thirty words into three small groups.　　B. Make a picture or a story about the words.　　C. Review in the evening and check in the morning.　　D. Repeat each word silently thirty times. （　　）5. What is the passage mainly about? A. The history of Greek and Roman schools.　　B. Why storytellers were important in the past.　　C. Old memory methods and what modern students can learn from them.　　D. How to write a poem with a good memory. 【生词注释】ancient 古代的；Greece 希腊；poetry 诗歌；material 材料 第 9 篇　Does Your Dog Remember You? Many pet owners believe their dogs remember them even after a long separation. Is there any science behind this belief? In one study, researchers tested twenty-five dogs. Each dog was left in a room with its owner for five minutes, and then the owner walked out. The dogs were tested three times: after thirty minutes, after two hours and after four hours. The result was interesting. After thirty minutes, almost every dog ran to the door when it heard the owner footsteps. After four hours, only about half of them still reacted in the same way. But when the owners spoke through a loudspeaker, far more dogs responded, even after eight hours. This shows that a dog memory of people is not based on time in the way ours is. It seems to depend more on what the dog hears and smells. A familiar voice or a familiar smell works much better than a clock. Why does hearing work so well? Scientists think that a voice carries feelings, not only information. When a dog hears a familiar voice, it may remember not just the person, but also the time they spent together. Other studies point in the same direction. Dogs can remember the names of many toys, and some can find a toy after a month. Elephants recognize the voices of old friends after more than ten years, and a dolphin can keep the sound of a friend for twenty years. A dog may grow anxious when its owner is away, and such anxiety can affect its memory of a place, just as it does in people. Scientists say that animals do not remember the way humans do, and we should not expect them to. But the next time your dog runs to the door before you open it, it may be telling you something that a clock cannot measure. （　　）1. What did the researchers do in the study? A. They kept twenty-five dogs in a room for four hours.　　B. They asked owners to leave their dogs for a month.　　C. They tested how dogs reacted to their owners after different times.　　D. They compared dogs with elephants and dolphins. （　　）2. What happened after four hours? A. All the dogs stopped reacting to the door.　　B. Every dog went to sleep in the room.　　C. The owners came back to the room.　　D. About half of the dogs still ran to the door. （　　）3. Which worked best in making the dogs respond? A. The owners voice through a loudspeaker.　　B. The sound of a clock in the room.　　C. The smell of the room itself.　　D. The footsteps after thirty minutes. （　　）4. What does the underlined sentence mean? A. Dogs can read a clock better than most people.　　B. A familiar voice is louder than a clock.　　C. Hearing and smelling matter more to dogs than the passing of time.　　D. Clocks do not work well in animal studies. （　　）5. What do the other studies mentioned in the passage show? A. Only dogs and dolphins can remember names.　　B. Elephants forget their friends after ten years.　　C. Animals remember things exactly as humans do.　　D. Some animals can keep a voice or a name for a long time. 【生词注释】separation 分离；loudspeaker 扬声器；respond 回应；measure 测量 第 10 篇　A Letter About Remembering Words Dear Xiaohui, It was lovely to get your letter. You wanted to know why you forget the new words so soon after you learn them, and whether there is a better way. Let me tell you what I have learned this term. First, forgetting is normal. A scientist once showed that more than half of new information can be lost in the first hour. The good news is that we can slow this down. What we need is not more hours but better timing. Second, do not review everything at one time. I choose twenty words and put them into four groups of five. In the morning I read the first group aloud. At lunch I cover the English and look at the Chinese. In the evening I try to retell a short story with the words. This sounds like a lot of work, but in fact it takes only fifteen minutes. Third, use the words. Last week I wrote a short passage about my grandfather with the new words. The teacher said that my sentences were simple, but she could see that the words had become mine. Finally, be kind to yourself. If you forget a word, do not say that you have a bad memory. Write it on a card and put it in front of your desk. Memory is like a garden, as my teacher often says; it grows when we visit it often. I hope you will not feel sad when a word is lost, because a little sadness is part of learning. It is likely that the words you have organized in this way will stay longer. One more thing: do not compare yourself with others. Last term my deskmate could remember fifty words a day, and I could only remember twenty. Now he has forgotten most of his words, but mine are still here, because I review them again and again. Write soon and tell me which of these ideas works for you. Yours, Li Ming （　　）1. Why did Xiaohui write to Li Ming? A. To tell him about a science experiment.　　B. To ask why he forgets new words and how to remember them better.　　C. To ask him to write a story about his grandfather.　　D. To borrow his English notebook for the weekend. （　　）2. What does Li Ming say about forgetting? A. It only happens to students with bad memories.　　B. It is normal and can be slowed down with better timing.　　C. It can be stopped completely by reading aloud.　　D. It is a sign that a person should study longer. （　　）3. How does Li Ming review his twenty words? A. He writes each word thirty times in the evening.　　B. He asks his teacher to test him every morning.　　C. He reads all twenty words aloud for an hour.　　D. He divides them into four groups and reviews in different ways. （　　）4. What does the underlined phrase “the words had become mine” mean? A. He had bought the words from a bookshop.　　B. He had written the words on his own cards.　　C. He could use the new words in his own writing.　　D. The teacher had given the words to him. （　　）5. What is the purpose of this letter? A. To share some practical ideas about learning words.　　B. To invite Xiaohui to visit his grandfather.　　C. To explain a science experiment in detail.　　D. To ask Xiaohui for help with his English. 【生词注释】retell 复述；timing 时间安排；practical 实用的 参考答案 第 1 篇　A C B D C 第 2 篇　C B B A D 第 3 篇　D A A B D 第 4 篇　A B B D C 第 5 篇　D C A C A 第 6 篇　A B D A D 第 7 篇　C C A D C 第 8 篇　D A B D C 第 9 篇　C D A C D 第 10 篇　B B D C A 人教版（2026）九年级上册　Unit 4　阅读理解 10 篇　第 页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $