Unit2 单元测试B卷 2026-2027学年人教版英语九年级上册

Unit 2 Inspiring People 单元测试（B卷）

（中等生·巩固卷   满分90分）

本试卷共8页，满分90分，考试用时90分钟。

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一、完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读短文，从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个能填入空白处的最佳选项。

Yuan Longping is a great scientist. He is known ___1___ the “Father of Hybrid Rice”.

Yuan was born in 1930. When he was a boy, he saw many people go ___2___ . He made up his mind to grow more rice to help them. After he ___3___ from college, he worked as a teacher in a farming school. He spent many years doing ___4___ in the fields.

In 1964, he discovered a special wild rice plant. This plant was ___5___ to his research. After nearly ten years, he ___6___ developed the first hybrid rice in 1973. This new kind of rice could ___7___ much more than common rice. Today, it is grown all over China and in ___8___ other countries.

Yuan once said, “I have a ___9___ : to see hybrid rice grow as tall as sorghum.” He kept working ___10___ he was over eighty. In 2004, he ___11___ the World Food Prize.

Yuan died in 2021. People all over China were very ___12___ . Many farmers cried for the man who had filled their ___13___ . It is ___14___ great of him to spend his whole life on hybrid rice. We should ___15___ him and work hard for our dreams.

1. A. for B. as C. with D. to

2. A. angry B. tired C. bored D. hungry

3. A. graduated B. heard C. suffered D. retired

4. A. housework B. business C. research D. sports

5. A. useless B. important C. similar D. unknown

6. A. slowly B. suddenly C. carelessly D. finally

7. A. produce B. waste C. reduce D. lose

8. A. few B. little C. many D. no

9. A. lesson B. dream C. class D. game

10. A. if B. because C. though D. until

11. A. won B. lost C. gave D. refused

12. A. happy B. relaxed C. sad D. excited

13. A. bags B. bowls C. boxes D. baskets

14. A. real B. true C. great D. really

15. A. admire B. forget C. refuse D. stop

二、阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读以下三篇短文，从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个与短文内容相符的最佳选项。

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Faces of Inspiring People

 

16. Who wrote Shiji?

A. Sima Qian. B. Faraday. C. Nightingale. D. Turing.

17. What did Faraday do?

A. He created modern nursing. B. He did research in physics and chemistry. C. He wrote Shiji.              D. He built railways.

18. What is Nightingale known for?

A. Writing books. B. Creating modern nursing. C. Inventing computers. D. Growing rice.

19. What did Alan Turing create?

A. A new kind of rice. B. A test to see if a computer could think like a person. C. Modern nursing. D. The railway system.

20. Which is TRUE according to the table?

A. Sima Qian came from a rich family. B. Faraday finished college at an early age. C. Nightingale cared about the poor.              D. Turing was a doctor.

B

Michael Faraday was a great scientist who made important discoveries in physics and chemistry. He was born in London, England in 1791. His family was very poor — his father was a blacksmith and there were often not enough meals for the children. Young Faraday only went to school for a very short time. He had to start working at the age of 13 to help support the family.

Young Faraday got a job delivering newspapers and later working in a bookshop. While he was wrapping books for customers, he secretly read them. He became very interested in science, especially electricity. At that time, poor people could not go to college or university. But Faraday did not give up. He taught himself everything by reading books and attending public lectures.

Later, Faraday got a job as a helper in a science lab at the Royal Institution. His job was to clean the lab and help the professor with experiments. But he soon started doing his own research. He made many important discoveries — he invented the electric motor and the electric generator, which changed the world. Without his work, we would not have electricity in our homes today.

Faraday never became rich or famous during his lifetime. But he was happy because he loved his work more than anything else. He once said, “Nothing is too wonderful to be true.” He believed that curiosity and hard work were more important than money or education.

Faraday died in 1867 at the age of 76. Today, people around the world remember him as one of the greatest scientists in history. He is a true inspiration to anyone who wants to learn, no matter how poor their background is.

21. When did Faraday start working?

A. In 1791. B. At the age of 13. C. In 1820. D. In 1867.

22. Where did Faraday read many books?

A. At college. B. In a bookshop. C. At school. D. In a library.

23. The underlined word “helper” in Paragraph 3 means ______.

A. 助手 B. 教授 C. 学生 D. 门卫

24. What did Faraday invent?

A. The telephone. B. The electric motor. C. The computer. D. The car.

25. What can we learn from Faraday?

A. Poor people cannot be scientists. B. Hard work and curiosity lead to success. C. College is the only way to success.              D. Money is the most important.

C

Florence Nightingale was a nurse who saved many lives and created modern nursing. She was born in 1820 in a rich family in England. Her parents wanted her to get married and live a comfortable life, but Nightingale had other plans.

When she was young, Nightingale visited hospitals and saw how sick people were treated badly. She decided to study nursing. Her parents did not like this at all, because at that time nurses were mostly poor women who worked in dirty hospitals. They thought nursing was not a job for a rich, educated woman. But Nightingale did not listen to them. She went to Germany to study nursing and came back to England to work.

In 1854, a war broke out between Britain and Russia. Many British soldiers were hurt and died in dirty hospitals. Nightingale went to the front with a team of 38 nurses. She cleaned the hospitals, washed the bandages, fed the wounded soldiers, and made the place much cleaner. Because of her hard work, the number of dying soldiers dropped quickly. People called her “The Lady with the Lamp”, because she often walked around the hospital at night with a small lamp to check on the patients.

After the war, Nightingale worked hard to change how nursing was seen. She wrote books, gave speeches, and started the first official nursing school in London in 1860. Today, nurses all over the world follow her example. Nightingale also helped change how hospitals are designed — clean, bright, and organized.

Nightingale died in 1910 at the age of 90. But her spirit of caring for others lives on. Every year on her birthday, May 12, we celebrate International Nurses Day to remember her great work.

26. Where was Nightingale born?

A. In England. B. In America. C. In France. D. In Germany.

27. Why didn’t her parents like her studying nursing?

A. Because nursing was too hard. B. Because she was too young. C. Because nurses were not respected at that time.              D. Because nursing was not a job.

28. What did Nightingale do during the war?