2026-2027学年外研版九年级英语上册 期中考试高分冲刺Unit1-3单元阅读精练

期中考试高分冲刺Unit1-3单元阅读精练 姓名：____________　　班级：____________　　得分：____________ 阅读A Last month, our school set up a new club—the Shadow Puppet Club. I was one of the first students to join it. At the first lesson, our teacher Mr Lin showed us a small wooden puppet. “It has no life,” he said. “But when you move its strings with your fingers, it will come to life.” Then he pulled the strings, and the little figure began to walk and dance. We were all amazed. Learning to control a puppet is not easy. At the beginning, my fingers moved too slowly, and the puppet kept falling down. I almost gave up. But Mr Lin told me to hold on. “Practise for twenty minutes every day,” he said, “and you will get better.” After three weeks, I could make my puppet bow to the audience. On the day of the school show, I performed in front of more than two hundred viewers. When they clapped, I felt very proud of myself. Last week, our club was invited to a primary school nearby. We gave two shows there. The children laughed and shouted when the puppets fought with each other. A little girl came up to me and asked, “Can I learn this too?” I told her she was welcome to join us. She smiled and promised to come every Saturday. Now I understand that traditional folk arts are not old-fashioned. They are full of creativity. If teenagers take part in them, they will stay alive for many more years. 1. What did Mr Lin do at the first lesson? A. He made a wooden puppet for the class.　　B. He pulled the strings of a puppet.　　C. He gave a long talk about folk arts.　　D. He played a video about shadow puppets. 2. What did Mr Lin advise the writer to do when he almost gave up? A. To watch more shows.　　B. To practise every day.　　C. To ask friends for help.　　D. To join another club. 3. What happened when the club visited the primary school? A. A little girl wanted to learn puppetry.　　B. The children soon felt bored.　　C. Mr Lin gave a speech to the parents.　　D. The writer forgot how to move the strings. 4. What is the passage mainly about? A. How to make a wooden puppet.　　B. Why folk arts are hard to learn.　　C. A teenager’s experience of learning puppetry.　　D. The long history of shadow puppets. 阅读B Every Thursday afternoon, a small group of students meets in Room 208. They are members of the “Money Club”. Their teacher, Ms Chen, started the club two years ago. “Many teenagers get pocket money from their parents,” Ms Chen says. “But few of them know how to manage it well.” In the club, students learn to make a budget, keep a record of what they spend, and save a little every week. Tom, a fifteen-year-old member, used to spend all his money on snacks and games. By the middle of each month, his moneybox was empty. “I didn’t think it mattered,” he says. “It was only a few dollars a day.” But when he wrote down his spending for a month, he was surprised. “I had spent nearly one hundred dollars on things I did not really need.” Now Tom follows a new plan. Each month he moves part of his money into a savings account at the bank and keeps the rest for daily use. Ms Chen says the club is not only about money. “We want students to understand that every choice has a cost,” she explains. “If you buy one thing, you may have to give up another. Learning this early will help you all your life.” Tom agrees. “I used to think saving was boring,” he says with a smile. “Now I know it makes me feel safe. And I can still enjoy myself—I just plan first.” 5. Why did Ms Chen start the Money Club? A. To help students manage their money well.　　B. To collect money for the school.　　C. To teach students how to buy cheap snacks.　　D. To find new members for the bank. 6. What did Tom find after he wrote down his spending for a month? A. He had spent little money.　　B. He had spent a lot on unnecessary things.　　C. He had saved enough for a laptop.　　D. He had made money from his friends. 7. How does Tom deal with his pocket money now? A. He spends it all as soon as he gets it.　　B. He keeps it all in his moneybox.　　C. He saves half and uses half.　　D. He gives it all to a children’s home. 8. What does Ms Chen want students to understand? A. Money is the most important thing.　　B. Every choice has a cost.　　C. Saving means giving up all fun.　　D. Banks are better than moneyboxes. 9. What can we learn about Tom from the last paragraph? A. He still thinks saving is boring.　　B. He has changed his idea about saving.　　C. He no longer enjoys anything.　　D. He wants to leave the club. 阅读C Li Na works in a small office in Dunhuang, a city in the northwest of China. Every morning, she sits in front of a computer and studies photos of ancient wall paintings. Her job is to record them in a digital form before they become too badly damaged. The paintings in the Mogao Caves are more than a thousand years old. They show how people lived, what they wore and what they believed. But time, wind and the breath of visitors have slowly harmed them. “Some colours have gone for ever,” Li Na says. “If we do nothing, our children may never see them.” Since 2016, Li Na and her team have photographed over 200 caves. They use special cameras and then put the pictures together on computers. The work is slow, and some of it is boring, but Li Na believes it is worth all the effort. She takes pride in every completed cave. Last year, the team found a small piece of painting that had been hidden for centuries. When Li Na cleaned it on the computer screen, a bright blue bird appeared. “It was like opening a window to the past,” she says. In 2023, the team built an online museum. Now anyone with a phone can walk through the caves and enjoy the paintings from any angle. Students in big cities can visit the caves without travelling thousands of kilometres. Li Na hopes more young people will join this work. “Technology can bring history alive,” she says. “But machines alone cannot do it. We still need people who love the past and are willing to spend years on it.” 10. What is Li Na’s job? A. She sells photos of wall paintings.　　B. She records ancient wall paintings digitally.　　C. She builds cameras for museums.　　D. She takes tourists around the caves. 11. Why are the wall paintings in danger? A. Because people have painted over them.　　B. Because time, wind and visitors have harmed them.　　C. Because the caves are too dark.　　D. Because the team has moved them away. 12. What did the team do in 2023? A. They found a hidden piece of painting.　　B. They built an online museum.　　C. They photographed over 200 caves.　　D. They opened a new office in Dunhuang. 13. What does the last paragraph suggest? A. Machines will soon replace human workers.　　B. Technology alone is enough to save history.　　C. Saving history needs both technology and devoted people.　　D. The team will stop working in a few years. 14. Which of the following is the best title for this passage? A. A Window to the Past　　B. How to Take Good Photos　　C. The Caves of Dunhuang　　D. A Boring Office Job 阅读D When Jack was thirteen, he noticed that many of his classmates threw away books and toys they no longer wanted. At the same time, the school art club had no money to buy new materials. “Why not put the two things together?” he thought. Last September, Jack and three friends held their first “Green Sale” in the school playground. They asked students to bring old books, T-shirts and small toys. Then they sold them at very low prices. Everything went well: in three hours, they made 560 yuan. “It was not easy,” Jack says. “At first, few people came. So we made some posters and put them on the school website. We also asked our teachers to tell their classes.” Soon the playground was crowded with teenagers hunting for cheap treasures. Jack learned something important about money along the way. He used to buy things as soon as he saw them. Now he asks himself three questions before spending: Do I need it? Will I use it? Is there a better choice? “These questions save me a lot of money,” he says. The Green Sale has become a tradition at Jack’s school. Two months ago, his group gave 800 yuan to the art club, which bought new brushes and paper for the puppet show. “Old things can find new homes, and our club can grow,” Jack says. “Everyone wins.” 15. Why did Jack decide to hold the Green Sale? A. To make money for himself.　　B. To help the art club get money.　　C. To sell his own old toys.　　D. To finish a school project. 16. What did Jack’s group do when few people came at first? A. They gave up the sale.　　B. They made posters and used the school website.　　C. They asked their parents to buy things.　　D. They cut the prices again and again. 17. What does Jack do before he spends money now? A. He asks his friends for advice.　　B. He thinks about three questions.　　C. He looks at his moneybox.　　D. He waits for a month. 18. What did the art club do with the money? A. It bought brushes and paper.　　B. It paid for a school trip.　　C. It gave the money to a children’s home.　　D. It built a reading room. 19. What is the writer’s purpose in writing this passage? A. To explain how to run a school sale.　　B. To show that a small idea can help others.　　C. To describe the history of the art club.　　D. To tell readers how to save money. 阅读E In a small village in the northwest of China, there is a stone statue that is over 800 years old. Nobody knows exactly who made it, or why it was put on the hillside. But for the villagers, it has always been part of their lives. Ten years ago, the statue was in danger. Rain and wind had slowly worn away its face, and some visitors had even written their names on it. “We were worried that one day it would be gone,” says Grandpa Wang, who has lived in the village all his life. So the villagers decided to do something. They built a simple fence around the statue to keep people at a safe distance. They also asked a group of archaeologists to study it. The experts were amazed by what they found: the statue was made in a period when different cultures met and mixed. Today, the village has a small museum. Every weekend, a young guide called Mei tells visitors the story of the statue. She is only seventeen, but she knows every detail. “When I was small, my grandmother used to take me there,” she says. “I want other teenagers to feel the same wonder.” Last year, over 10,000 people came to the village. The money from the tickets helped build a new road and a reading room for the children. “We are proud of our statue,” says Grandpa Wang. “It is not just an old stone. It is our history.” 20. What was the danger to the stone statue ten years ago? A. It was moved to another place.　　B. Bad weather and careless visitors harmed it.　　C. Someone tried to sell it.　　D. It was covered by a new road. 21. What did the villagers do to protect the statue? A. They built a fence and asked experts for help.　　B. They hid the statue in a museum.　　C. They put it at the top of the hill.　　D. They sold tickets to visitors. 22. Who is Mei, and what does she do? A. She is a teacher who studies history.　　B. She is a young guide at the village museum.　　C. She is an archaeologist from the city.　　D. She is Grandpa Wang’s daughter. 23. How has the village changed since the museum opened? A. It has become quieter than before.　　B. It has built a road and a reading room.　　C. It has moved to a new place.　　D. It has stopped growing crops. 24. What does the passage mainly tell us? A. Villagers work together to protect their history.　　B. Stone statues are difficult to make.　　C. Young people should leave their villages.　　D. Museums are the best places for old things. 参考答案 阅读A 1. B　　2. B　　3. A　　4. C 阅读B 5. A　　6. B　　7. C　　8. B　　9. B 阅读C 10. B　　11. B　　12. B　　13. C　　14. A 阅读D 15. B　　16. B　　17. B　　18. A　　19. B 阅读E 20. B　　21. A　　22. B　　23. B　　24. A 外研版（2026）九年级上册 Unit1—Unit3　期中冲刺·单元阅读精练　第 页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $